Settlement, Employee Rights, Employer Liability Issues

PAID Back: DOL Revives Voluntary Self-Audit Program

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/29/2025

The U.S. Department of Labor has officially revived its Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program. Designed to help employers proactively resolve FLSA issues—and now, for the first time, certain FMLA...more

Compliance Check: Massachusetts Employers, Do Your Applications Contain Required Lie Detector Disclosures?

Verrill on 6/5/2025

Last year, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a decision in Baker v. CVS Health Corporation with an important reminder to employers regarding their required disclosure in employment applications...more

Fly High (and Out of the EEOC’s Eye) by Updating Your Policies on Pregnancy Accommodation and Lactation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/15/2023

Everyone has been preparing for the recently enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act. Earlier this month the EEOC gave us another reason to make sure our policies are up to snuff. Frontier Airlines and the EEOC...more

Turning the Other Cheek(s): Second Circuit Mandates Court Review of Dismissal of FLSA Case Without Prejudice

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/15/2022

What is the right way to dismiss a case the parties have settled, and are FLSA cases different? Typically, when parties to a lawsuit settle a case, they merely alert the court of the settlement and then file a stipulation of...more

City of Hammond to Pay $80,750 to Resolve EEOC Disability Discrimination Finding

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 12/15/2020

City Improperly Subjected Employees to a Comprehensive Medical Exam, Federal Agency Charged - HAMMOND, Ind. – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the City of Hammond, located in Indiana, reached a...more

Nix Hospital Settles EEOC Pregnancy Discrimination Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 8/30/2019

Hospital Refused to Accommodate and Terminated Pregnant Worker, Federal Agency Said - SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Nix Hospitals System, LLC, doing business as Nix Healthcare System, a provider of comprehensive medical services,...more

Equal treatment for dads: EEOC settles first of its kind parental leave case

Bricker Graydon LLP on 3/21/2018

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a settlement agreement in the agency’s first lawsuit challenging parental leave policies that grant more rights to new mothers than new fathers....more

Time Warner-EEOC Settlement Provides a Cautionary Tale to Employers Who Provide Mothers More Parental Leave Than Fathers

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 9/30/2015

I recently read in the NY Times that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled a charge with Time Warner, Inc., the parent company of CNN and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. where a former employee alleged that...more

The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - June 2014

Proskauer Rose LLP on 6/16/2014

Editor's Overview - In this month's issue, our authors address severance benefit claims and ERISA disclosure requirements. In our first article, Joe Clark addresses whether a plan administrator should conduct an...more

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