Melissa Rodriguez

Melissa Rodriguez

Melissa C. Rodriguez advises clients on the full spectrum of labor and employment law matters. This includes single-plaintiff, class, and collective action litigation (both wage and hour and discrimination claims); wage and hour and other employment counseling; and internal workplace investigations. In her litigation practice, she represents employers in individual, class, and collective action litigation, and in administrative agency actions concerning federal and state labor and employment statutes. Her clients hail from sectors including the retail, insurance, transportation, food services, and financial services industries.

Affirmative Action One Year Later: What Retailers Need to Know

We're quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down affirmative action in higher education. Although Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina (Harvard/UNC decision) did not squarely apply to the private sector, corporations have been swept into a nationwide conflict…