The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday voted to end affirmative action in higher education, ruling that the practice violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The ruling came in response... Read more »
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday voted to end affirmative action in higher education, ruling that the practice violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The ruling came in response... Read more »
?A new Florida law designed to crack down on illegal immigration has prompted workers to leave the state and left employers short-staffed. Manuel Lievano is chief executive officer of MCC USA Global... Read more »
?Takeaway: This decision provided further support for the option of adopting an arbitration program in California to help manage the risk of wage-and-hour class litigation. ? A recent decision by a... Read more »
?The California Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a class-action case that could limit how employers in the state may use time rounding to calculate employees’ work hours. In Camp v. Home... Read more »
?Although both the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibit disability and perceived disability discrimination in the workplace, the LAD definition of “disability” is... Read more »
?The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an employee can continue his civil case against a transportation company in Pennsylvania courts, even though the events of his case didn’t take place in... Read more »
?Takeaway: This opinion articulates three different theories by which an employee might establish that an employer’s stated reasons for the employee’s termination are pretexts for unlawful discrimination. Although the employee’s arguments in... Read more »
?Takeaway: This case highlights the important role that documentation of performance issues and clear, written job descriptions can play if an employee seeks to challenge an employment decision in court. By maintaining... Read more »
?Employers that require overtime hours need to be aware of how the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) may apply differently to workers assigned to mandatory overtime. In February, the U.S.... Read more »