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Retaliation
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D'Orazio Peterson Blog
EEOC Update: Know Your Rights – COVID-19 Retaliation
The EEOC has updated its COVID-19 guidance on workplace retaliation. We talk about what types of activities are protected from retaliation and common scenarios in the COVID-19 context, including vaccine…
Workforce Bulletin
Joint Initiative of Ending Retaliation and Promoting Workers’ Rights Promises More Aggressive Enforcement of Federal Anti-Retaliation Laws
By Gregory (Greg) Keating, Daniel J. Green
November 17, 2021, the Department of Labor (“DOL”), National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) conducted a webinar on Ending Retaliation and Promoting Workers Rights. The…
Employment Law Perspectives
New York Significantly Expands Protections For Employees Under Whistleblower Laws
On October 28, 2021, New York Governor, Kathy Hochul, signed legislation protecting employees who report illegal or dangerous business activities from retaliation by their employers. These amendments to New York’s…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
EEOC, DOL, and NLRB Announce Joint Initiative to Protect Workers from Retaliation for Exercising their Rights in the Workplace
By Alan J. Marcuis, Anh Shigekawa
On November 10, 2021, three federal agencies tasked with enforcing workplace laws announced a joint initiative to combat retaliation in the workplace. As a refresher, the EEOC protects a worker’s…
ContractsProf Blog
Two Yale Law Students Sue Yale for Breach of Contract
Yale Law School (YLS) gets a bad wrap for being too theoretical. Outside of the clinics, so that saying goes, one hardly learns doctrine at all during one's three years…
Labor Relations Update
NLRB, DOL, and EEOC Announce Joint Initiative to Combat Worker Retaliation
By Steven Porzio, Elizabeth Dailey
Today, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), along with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), announced the creation of an interagency initiative to…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Consistently Inconsistent: An Example of Shifting Reasons for Employment Termination Precluding Summary Judgment
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas recently denied an employer’s motion for summary judgment when its alleged shifting reasons for terminating the plaintiff’s employment contract raised…
Environmental Law +
OSHA retaliation complaints rising – Have you checked your anti-retaliation program lately?
By Jon Schaefer
Below is an excerpt of an article that was published in ISHN on October 14, 2021. Most workers in the United States are protected from retaliation for raising workplace health…
Inside the False Claims Act
Trio of False Claims Act Retaliation Rulings from September
The False Claims Act (FCA) prohibits employers from retaliating against whistleblowers who report FCA violations. 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h). To plead a claim under this anti-retaliation provision of the FCA,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Black Women Police Officers Allege an “Enterprise-Wide Culture of Race and Sex Discrimination”
By Jamie Abrams
A class of Black female police officers in Washington, D.C. has sued the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) alleging an "enterprise-wide culture of race and sex discrimination and intense pervasive retaliation…