Labor & Employment
Apple, Google and other major tech firms have appealed a federal court judge’s rejection of a proposed a $324.5 million […]
The Department of Labor has sent out a Request for Information (RFI) about so-called “brokerage windows.” This could signal an […]
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby found that some companies, “closely held corporations,” did not have to […]
The recent case of Jimmy John’s workers protesting for additional sick days led the NLRB to overrule long-standing precedent, expanding the ability of employees to protest and curbing an employer’s ability to discipline workers for publicly criticism.
A second employee of the EEOC’s Phoenix Regional Office has sued the agency for race discrimination, retaliation, and violation of civil rights.
After a period of relatively robust job creation and a steadily falling unemployment rate…
A post from Foley & Lardner takes issue with an upbeat report from the Department of Labor about how the […]
By failing to take action to protect a female employee from a customer who had repeatedly approached, pursued and confronted […]
“Immoral behavior” is usually not going to be a legal justification for a mandatory medical examination, and might even get you a judicial smackdown, as evidenced in a recent case with a Michigan EMT worker who was told to get counseling or a pink slip.
A Wisconsin manufacturing company’s firing of several Hispanic and Asian employees for having poor English skills is an example of how English-only rules may be used to make “discrimination appear acceptable,” a regional attorney for the EEOC said. But “superficial appearances are not fooling anyone.”
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