According to the U.S. Supreme Court, a complaint is a “complaint,” whether made orally or in writing. An opinion authored by Justice Stephen Breyer, Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., addressed the issue of whether the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protects employees from retaliation for making oral complaints.
The March 22 U.S. Supreme Court decision confirms that it does, as long as the complaint is “sufficiently clear and detailed for a reasonable employer to understand it, in light of both content and context, as an assertion of rights protected by the statute and a call for their protection.”
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