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Practical pieces about employment law trends and how companies can stay compliant with quickly changing regulations and case law. A recent focus is how Legal should handle #MeToo and accusations of harassment and discrimination.
By Denise M. Heekin | November 6, 2019
It may not be reasonable to have an absolute "relationship ban" for every level of the organization. However, for those higher on the food chain, or whenever there are power imbalances, it is necessary that employers address its expectations.
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By Jonathan Crotty, Melanie Dubis and Robert Osborne | November 6, 2019
Can a business face a class action lawsuit when it has violated a law but may not have actually harmed anyone? And how do you measure whether racial harassment was severe enough for an employer to be liable for creating a hostile work environment?
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By Sid Steinberg | November 6, 2019
We have all heard the old adage "time is money," but what if an employee's disability affects his ability to show up for work on time?
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By Hollie Reiminger | November 5, 2019
A federal appeals court ruled on August 6 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) 2012 guidance document cautioned employers not to…
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By Max Mitchell | November 5, 2019
The federal appeals court on Monday certified two questions of first impression to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, stemming from a class action lawsuit claiming that practices at Amazon's warehouse outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, violate the Keystone State's minimum wage laws.
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By The Legal Intelligencer | November 5, 2019
In the Legal's Labor & Employment supplement, read about the practice of tip sharing and pooling, recent bans on hair discrimination in the workplace and the effects of the #MeToo movement on employment law as a whol
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By Jack Newsham | November 5, 2019
In a racial discrimination suit against Davis Polk, former associate Kaloma Cardwell said the firm tried to get him to resign by not giving him interesting work, and finally by not giving him much work at all, before firing him last year.
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 4, 2019
Lieff Cabraser's Anne Shaver, representing the plaintiffs, got a lot of questions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit about Microsoft's employment practices. Citing Walmart v. Dukes, Judge Johnnie Rawlinson told her, "I don't feel there is a policy that's been pointed out."
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By Angela Turturro | November 4, 2019
In this Special Report: "The Top 5 Labor and Employment Laws You Don't Know," "Generation Gig: Can New York State Learn From California's Legislation?," "Can the Wisdom of a Guns N' Roses Song Help Us Avoid a Retaliation Claim?," "Pay Data Pitfalls: What We Can Learn From Facebook's Discrimination Case" and "Sexual Harassment Investigations in New York."
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By Patrick P. Dinardo and Christopher K. Shields | November 4, 2019
This ruling should enhance employers' abilities to seek the opinion of outside medical professionals to gauge an employee's fitness for work, and reassure those medical professionals that they will not be subject to liability.
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