News & Analysis as of

Employer Liability Issues Constitutional Challenges Appeals

Amundsen Davis LLC

Court Ruling Hamstrings IRS Enforcement of ACA Employer Mandate

Amundsen Davis LLC on

On April 10, 2025, a federal court in Texas issued an opinion in the case of Faulk Co. v. Becerra that significantly impacts how the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate can be enforced. The ruling effectively...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Supreme Court Cert Denials: Beyond the Headlines

Cranfill Sumner LLP on

While legal analysts focus on landmark Supreme Court decisions each term, equally significant are the cases the Court declines to hear. These certiorari denials often reveal critical jurisprudential trends that shape...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Full D.C. Circuit Court Reinstates Wilcox to the NLRB

On April 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held that President Trump’s termination of National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) Member Gwynne Wilcox was unlawful. The decision marks...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Back on the Chopping Block after Federal Appeals Court Ruling

On Friday, March 14, 2025, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stayed, pending appeal, the injunction previously entered by Judge Adam Abelson of the U.S. District Court for the District of...more

Meyers Nave

Federal Court Partially Blocks Trump’s DEI Executive Orders, Adding to Compliance Uncertainty for California Employers and...

Meyers Nave on

Key Takeaways - - A federal District Court in Maryland has temporarily blocked, nationwide, portions of two of President Trump’s Executive Orders restricting DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs within the federal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Navigating the Wild West of the New ACA Preventative Care Ruling

On March 30, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a decision in Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra (“Braidwood”), invalidating the Affordable Care Act’s (“ACA’s”) mandate...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Nationwide Injunction Against Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate ‎

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, in The State of Georgia, et. al. v. Biden, et. al., Case No. 1:21-cv-163, a federal district court judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Georgia District Court Enjoins Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate Nationwide

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on

On December 6, we noted on this blog post that because the injunction issued by the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on November 30 prohibiting the government from enforcing the government contractor...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Happy Thanksgiving and the Many Things for Which We Are Thankful – 2021 Edition

Many of us are understandably anxious to put another tumultuous year of the pandemic behind us. But before we sit down at the table to fill our plates and bellies to overflowing to celebrate the holiday, we can all find some...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Challenged – OSHA’s Rule Mandating COVID Vaccinations or Weekly Testing for Employers Halted

On November 4, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its much-anticipated mandate-or-test workplace vaccine emergency rule (“the Rule”). The Rule requires employers with 100 or more employees to...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Implementation of OSHA’s 11/5/2021 Emergency Temporary Standard Stayed by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

On Friday, November 12, 2021, in BST Holdings, L.L.C., et. al. vs. Occupational Health and Safety Administration, et. al., Case: 21-60845, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the plaintiffs’ motion to stay...more

Snell & Wilmer

Sixth Circuit Wins ETS Lottery and OSHA Suspends ETS-Related Activities

Snell & Wilmer on

Yesterday, November 16, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (the “Panel”) held a lottery to select the federal appeals court to address the 34 petitions seeking review of the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

UPDATE: Sixth Circuit Will Hear Legal Challenges to OSHA’s Mandatory Vaccination and Testing Standard

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on

On November 5, 2021, OSHA published its Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”), requiring private employers with 100 or more employees to establish, implement, and enforce a written mandatory vaccination or testing policy. ...more

Butler Snow LLP

Alabama Enacts Legislation That Restricts COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Butler Snow LLP on

Alabama has joined an ever-increasing number of states that have passed laws aimed at countering the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Alabama Senate Bill 9 restricts Alabama employers from requiring COVID-19...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

OSHA Issues Mandatory Vaccination and Testing Standard, But One Federal Court of Appeals Has Already Issued a Stay

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published on November 5, 2021, its emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring most private employers with 100 or more employees to establish, implement, and...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends, Issue 8

This eighth edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, follows what we hope was a restful and meaningful Memorial Day weekend. For the third week in a row, shutdown challenges, workers'...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends, Issue 7

This seventh edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees a continuation of the trend we identified last week: shutdown challenges, workers' compensation claims, and wrongful death lawsuits...more

Littler

Third Circuit Lifts Preliminary Injunction and Green Lights Philadelphia’s Salary History Ordinance

Littler on

On February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Philadelphia’s salary history ordinance and reversed the decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania which had held that...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Third Circuit Upholds Philadelphia's Salary History Ban

Troutman Pepper Locke on

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that a Philadelphia city ordinance that prohibits Philadelphia employers from asking applicants about their current or past pay rates is constitutional....more

White and Williams LLP

Philadelphia Salary History Ordinance Upheld by Court of Appeals

White and Williams LLP on

On Thursday, February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order upholding Philadelphia’s Salary History Ordinance (the Ordinance). Philadelphia was an early adopter of legislation prohibiting inquiries into...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Dallas, Texas Enacts Paid Sick Leave Law, But Its Future Remains in Question

As we have previously reported, in late 2018, a Texas appellate court ruled that a similar paid sick leave ordinance enacted in Austin violated the Texas Minimum Wage Act and the Texas Constitution and was therefore...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Employment Law Legends, Episode 1 – Employment Law Reborn: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish

Our new series, Employment Law Legends, examines pivotal employment law cases—from the history behind them to their lasting impact. In the first episode of the series, Paul Rinnan discusses West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, a case...more

Payne & Fears

Key California Employment Law Cases: August 2018

Payne & Fears on

This month’s key employment law cases address pre-employment physicals, appeals from California Labor Commissioner awards, and background checks.   EEOC v. BNSF Ry. Co., 902 F.3d 916 (9th Cir. 2018)...more

Stoel Rives - World of Employment

California Supreme Court Resolves Conflict Regarding California’s Background Check Laws

In Connor v. First Student, Inc., the California Supreme Court resolved a conflict in Court of Appeal decisions relating to the constitutionality of California’s background check laws....more

Littler

Littler Global Guide - Canada - Q2 2018

Littler on

British Columbia Extends Family Leave Policies - New Legislation Enacted - On May 17, 2018, British Columbia amended legislation to give employees in the province pregnancy, parental, and compassionate care leaves. ...more

28 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide