By Cedra Mayfield | Patrick Smith | April 22, 2024
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Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Tanya Tate | April 15, 2024
Fissures in the EFAA and FAA have turned matters upside down.
By Alex Anteau | April 11, 2024
According to the defendant-appellees, if the intermediate court sides with the appellants, it "would throw the Workers' Compensation Board into chaos."
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Sherry Culves | April 5, 2024
Leaving a "problem" employee undisciplined can lead to significant cultural problems in the workplace and have detrimental effects on business operations, but strategies can be utilized to help mitigate risk while achieving business interests.
By Colleen Murphy | April 4, 2024
In December, the plaintiff complained to human resources about her supervisor. Just two months later, she was placed on a performance improvement plan and by March, she was terminated, the complaint said.
By Cedra Mayfield | March 29, 2024
"[T]he workers compensation bar doesn't prevent victims of sexual abuse from suing in tort if their employers are at fault," said plaintiff counsel Jeb Butler. "Our appellate courts have held that sexual assault claims do not 'arise out of' employment."
By Chris O'Malley | March 28, 2024
The Department of Labor fined Morristown, Tennessee-based Tuff Torq $296,951 and secured a court order requiring it to disgorge $1.5 million—a month of profits—after a January inspection found 10 illegally employed children as young as 14 subjected to "oppressive" conditions.
By Allison Dunn | March 26, 2024
Iriel Jones, a trial attorney with the commission, filed the civil rights complaint Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on behalf of Jerrell McGirt against Iron Hill Brewery's Buckhead location, as well as the owners of the craft brewery and restaurant, which have 20 locations across Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Georgia.
By Mason Lawlor | March 22, 2024
"Our clients do have considerable experience with their engineering background, and they were targeted and recruited from these universities in Mexico, but the American workers that are working alongside them obviously don't have an engineering degree and oftentimes don't have a college degree," Rachel Berlin Benjamin of Beal Sutherland Berlin & Brown in Atlanta, told the Daily Report.
By Alex Anteau | March 11, 2024
"Upsetting all of that will have policy consequences that we are ill-equipped to evaluate—and that it is not our role to evaluate," Presiding Judge Christopher McFadden wrote.
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