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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

Eleventh Circuit Upholds Ruling for Employer on ADA Claims Where Employee Submitted Noncompliant Return-to-Work Letter

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/11/2024

On February 7, 2024, in Jones v. Georgia Ports Authority, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment for an employer where a former employee who requested an...more

OFCCP Week in Review, Special Edition | DEAMcon23 Day One Recap

DirectEmployers Association on 5/16/2023

This is part 1 of a 3-part series reporting on the 50 speakers delivering 27 different educational presentations at the DirectEmployers (DE) three-day Annual Meeting (DEAMcon23) of DE Members, Recruit Rooster customers, and...more

Holbrey v States Employment Board and Others [2022] TRE 31A

Walkers on 12/6/2022

In Holbrey v States Employment Board and Others [2022] TRE 31A the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal had to consider a number of potential issues, including disability discrimination for a non-physical disability,...more

Court Upholds Jury Verdict That Directly-Observed Urine Collections Did Not Constitute Constructive Discharge

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/27/2020

A Washington appellate court upheld a jury’s verdict that an employer’s drug testing protocol requiring direct observation of urine collections did not invade an employee’s privacy and did not constitute a constructive...more

Too Little, Too Late: The First Circuit Finds For Employers in an Accommodation Request Made After The Termination Decision

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/10/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: The First Circuit recently sided with an employer in a disability discrimination suit in Trahan v. Wayfair Maine, Inc., Civil Action 19-1961....more

Ontario, Canada: Sexually Harassed Employee Wins the Battle but Loses the War When she is Awarded Damages But is Ordered to Pay...

Littler on 5/2/2019

A recent decision of the Court of Appeal of Ontario, Colistro v. Tbaytel, 2019 ONCA 197, puts employers in Ontario on notice that if they re-hire an employee who has a history of victimizing a current employee by sexual...more

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Hiring & Firing › PTSD

Eleventh Circuit Upholds Ruling for Employer on ADA Claims Where Employee Submitted Noncompliant Return-to-Work Letter

OFCCP Week in Review, Special Edition | DEAMcon23 Day One Recap

Holbrey v States Employment Board and Others [2022] TRE 31A

Court Upholds Jury Verdict That Directly-Observed Urine Collections Did Not Constitute Constructive Discharge

Too Little, Too Late: The First Circuit Finds For Employers in an Accommodation Request Made After The Termination Decision

Ontario, Canada: Sexually Harassed Employee Wins the Battle but Loses the War When she is Awarded Damages But is Ordered to Pay...

Connecticut Court Rules in Favor of Medical Marijuana User in Discrimination Case

Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Sued by EEOC for Disability Discrimination

Employment Law - October 2015 #3

EEOC Sues EZEFLOW USA for Disability Discrimination

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