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Retaliation
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Workforce Bulletin
OSHA’s New Electronic Recordkeeping Rule Creates a Number of New Pitfalls for Employers
On May 12, 2016, OSHA published significant amendments to its recordkeeping rule, requiring many employers to submit work-related injury and illness information to the agency electronically. The amendments also include…
California Employment Law Update
EEOC Sufficiently Conciliated Class Claims Before Bringing Suit, And Employee Stated Hostile Environment Claim
By Tony Oncidi
Arizona ex rel. Horne v. The Geo Group, 2016 WL 945634 (9th Cir. 2016) Alice Hancock was employed by Geo as a correctional officer at the Arizona State Prison. Geo…
Labor & Employment Insights
Misread Signs: U.S. Supreme Court Finds Employer’s Mistaken Belief about Employee Supports Retaliation Claim
Is it still retaliation if your boss fired you for something you didn’t actually do? In Heffernan v. City of Paterson, New Jersey, the U.S. Supreme Court said yes—your boss’s…
Train Law Blog
Spotlight on CSX Retaliation
You can tell a lot about a workplace culture by how managers react to employee safety complaints. Enlightened managers welcome safety complaints, benighted managers suppress them. Enlightened managers view such…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
But I Didn’t Mean To! U.S. Supreme Court Says Employer Intentions Govern in First Amendment Retaliation Case
For government employers, disciplining and terminating employees can be especially difficult. Not only does the public employer face the same challenges in complying with the standard alphabet soup of employment…
Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
New Food Safety Whistleblower Regulations: OSHA Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
By Mark A. Lies, II and Adam R. Young Seyfarth Synopis: Employers may face liability for retaliation charges from employees who report food safety issues under the Food Safety Modernization…
Texas Employment Lawyer
The employer’s decision not to rehire Plaintiff shortly after she complained about being paid as an independent contractor and not an employee establishes a causal connection between the decision not to rehire Plaintiff and her protected activity under the FLSA.
“While Plaintiff was employed by Defendants, she complained to her supervisors that she should be paid as an employee, rather than an independent contractor, because she was treated as an…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
Still Cookin’ In California Court: Bakery Employer Survives EEOC Motion For Summary Judgment
By Alex W. Karasik In what has become an oft-used recipe in the EEOC cookbook of Title VII retaliation litigation, the government has once again utilized the strategy of taking…
Employment & Labor
Still Cookin’ In California Court: Bakery Employer Survives EEOC Motion For Summary Judgment
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Alex W. Karasik In what has become an oft-used recipe in the EEOC cookbook of Title VII retaliation litigation, the government has once again…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
Dismissal Denied For Discussing Disability: EEOC Case Against Employer Survives
By Alex W. Karasik Anti-discrimination laws command that “thou shall not retaliate…” The recent ruling in EEOC v. Day & Zimmerman NPS, Inc., Case No. 15-CV-01416 (D. Conn Apr. 12,…