The recent coronavirus outbreak raises a host of employment-law issues. For example, the Occupational Safety and Health Act requires employers to take measures to eliminate or reduce dangerous hazards to their employees. The...more
Can a news organization avoid a discrimination claim by arguing that it was exercising its First Amendment right to choose who writes the news?
That’s the question that the California courts have been grappling with in...more
2/7/2020
/ ADEA ,
Age Discrimination ,
Anti-SLAPP ,
Associational Retaliation ,
CA Supreme Court ,
Cable Television Providers ,
Cause of Action Accrual ,
CNN ,
Defamation ,
Disability Discrimination ,
First Amendment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
News Stories ,
Plagiarism ,
Race Discrimination ,
Retaliation ,
Wrongful Termination
Under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), employers are required to provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave to employees with certain family or medical issues. These issues include attending to serious health conditions that make...more
10/11/2018
/ Age Discrimination ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Judgment on the Pleadings ,
Medical Leave ,
Motion for Judgment ,
Resignation ,
Unpaid Leave ,
Wrongful Termination
Ghosts, ghouls, and ghastly liability; the last is certainly enough to spook any employer. For this Halloween, we take a trip down Elm Street to revisit the most startling nightmares we’ve ever covered....more
10/31/2017
/ Damages ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Halloween ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Medical Leave ,
Pretext ,
Punitive Damages ,
Teachers ,
Whistleblowers ,
Wrongful Termination