Tuesday May 6, 2008 - Tim’s office internet access is down - we cannot access email. We expect to be back up by Friday May 9, 2008
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Federal Minimum Wage Increases to $5.85 effective July 24, 2007
Note that Missouri’s internal minimum wage is $6.50
The minimum wage is a political football for some reason. The Democratic majority (since Nov 2006) in Congress got a Federal minimum wage increase passed. The last time the Federal minimum wage increased was under the administration of Democrat […]

Whew, that Midwest Hurricane wiped out power to the office Wednesday night 7-19-06, and the power stayed off Thursday 7-20-06
That Hurricane-Force storm that passed through St. Louis Wednesday night shut down our office, and about 50% of everything else in the vicinity.
Our internal phone system was hosed, and since we were without power we couldn’t […]

Judge Lisa Van Amburg
UPDATE: This article was originally posted January 2003 when Employment Lawyer Lisa Van Amburg was selected to become a judge. She has been sworn in, and is a Circuit Judge in St. Louis City Court as of April 2003. I’ll keep the original article active for awhile because some people find it […]

OLD STUFF - NOT UPDATED FOR ARCHIVE ONLY
To see an unformatted verision of the current Front Page, click the “Printable Version” link at the top of the Front Page.
In the OLD days, I actually had to create an HTML page without much “style” code built in, for accessibility. That page had the name of the […]

Criticism of RSMo 105.055, a Missouri Statute regarding whistleblowing by State Government employees.
The main purpose of this article is to illustrate how poorly-worded statutes create very weak rights, almost non-existent rights, despite their best intentions.
RSMo 105.055 is an example of a statute that grants a “right” that has little or no value, as you […]

Notes about the slow redesign of TimsLaw.com
[UPDATE March 2006] —– Here’s more ancient history. I used to “blog” about my struggles with web coding and web design. My Blog-methodology was to use plain old HTML files to kind of keep a record of the major steps and problem I dealt with.
Currently, I am re-coding the […]

Some special info for users of old web browsers, like Netscape 4.7 and MSIE 4
[UPDATE March 2006] — WOW! This article is ancient history, from 2002 and 2003! I am re-coding the website into the PHP-based Wordpress content management system.
Four years ago, I had to worry a LOT about people using very old web […]

OBSOLETE — THIS PAGE IS OLD JUNK FROM ABOUT 2002 ——– BEING KEPT FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES
BUT — If you want to see what I’ve written about my favorite persecuted radio personality, JC Corcoran, go here instead.
The rest of this page is way old and obsolete.
Miscellaneous non-legal stuff that I talk about purely for fun as […]

Post-strike thoughts about the 2003 St. Louis Grocery Strike and Lockoutinvolving Schnucks, Dierbergs and Shop n Save
[Full disclosure: A close family member of mine is a non-union employee of one of the grocers, and I do not take cases against that grocer for that reason.]
Summary of this article
After giving a short history of the 2003 […]

Tim’s rant against the Dept of Labor’s changes to the Overtime and Exempt Employee rules under the Federal Overtime Laws
UPDATE: 8-23-04 was the day the Bush administration acted to weaken overtime pay rights for millions of workers. AFL-CIO fact sheet on new overtime rules, See also Tim’s Rant about the new overtime rules (with more […]