FCPA Compliance Report-Bonus Episode, the Walmart FCPA Enforcement Action
This Week in FCPA-Episode 159, week ending June 21, 2019 – the KPMG Trainwreck and Walmart Settles
This Week in FCPA-Episode 80, The Last Jedi Edition
This Week in FCPA-Episode 77, the Home for the Holidays Edition
Day 20: What Does Innovation in Compliance Look Like?
This Week in FCPA-Episode 56
This Week in FCPA-Episode 1
Fcpa Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 58-Interview with Michael Scher
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 30-Interview with the FCPA Professor-Part 2
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 18-Walmart-Be a Leader in Compliance
Federal Agency Charges That Store Managers Refused to Accommodate Employee’s Hearing, Speech and Cognitive Disabilities and Fired Her - NEW YORK – A Walmart Supercenter in Farmingdale, New York violated federal law by...more
Retailer Based Continued Employment on an Unlawful Qualification Standard, Federal Agency Charges - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Walmart, Inc. and Walmart Stores Arkansas, LLC, a multinational retailer, violated federal law when...more
Overnight Stockers Forced to Resign After Being Denied Reasonable Accommodations - ST. LOUIS – Multinational retailer Walmart violated federal law when it failed to provide effective means of communication to two employees...more
Store Managers Refused to Accommodate Employee’s Seizure Disorder and Fired Her, Federal Agency Charges - PHOENIX – A Walmart store in Bullhead City, Arizona violated federal law by failing to provide a reasonable...more
Henderson Store Refused to Accommodate Employee and Fired Her Because of a Disability, Federal Agency Charges - RALEIGH, N.C. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when it refused to excuse an employee’s...more
Statesville Store Refused to Accommodate Deli Worker and Fired Her Because of a Disability, Federal Agency Charges - CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when it refused to excuse an employee’s...more
Hope Mills Store Refused to Allow Employee with Hand-Wrist Condition to Work and Then Fired Her Because of Her Disability, Federal Agency Charges - RALEIGH, N.C. – Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when it...more
An eight-person jury returned a $125 million verdict against a major retailer in favor of a Down syndrome woman claiming disability discrimination. The case, EEOC v. Walmart Stores East LP, U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
Retailer Fired Woman with Down Syndrome - CHICAGO – An eight-member jury in Green Bay, Wisconsin returned a verdict of $125,150,000 in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on three claims of...more
Decatur Store Refused to Accommodate Deaf Applicant During Hiring Process Federal Agency Charges - DECATUR, Ill. – Walmart violated federal law by failing to provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for an...more
Title VII requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to allow employees to work in ways compatible with their religious beliefs and practices. However, for decades, federal courts have interpreted this obligation...more
Since March 2020, approximately 4,219 Covid-19 related cases have been filed across the United States, including: 1,004 Insurance Related Cases... 716 Prisoner/Habeas Corpus Cases... 538 Civil Rights Cases... 415 Labor and...more
Shepherd Premier Aims to Open 30 Small-Home Communities By 2022 - Aug 11th, 2019 via Senior Housing News. Small-home senior living provider, Shepherd Premier Senior Living, offers an alternative to traditional large-scale...more
Giant Retailer Refused to Accommodate Disabled Employee with Reassignment to a Nearby Store, Federal Agency Charged - BANGOR, Maine - Walmart Inc. will pay $80,000 and implement nationwide changes to its disability...more
Jury Finds Retail Giant Suspended and Failed to Accommodate Longtime Deaf Employee With Visual Impairment - MADISON, Wis. - Late yesterday, a jury determined that Walmart violated federal law when it refused to...more
Indianapolis Store Forced Out Employee With Disability After Refusing Accommodation, Federal Agency Charged - INDIANAPOLIS - Walmart Stores East, LP will pay $10,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability charge...more
D.C. Store Violated Federal Law by Failing to Provide Reasonable Accommodations to Deaf Employees, Federal Agency Charges - WASHINGTON - Walmart Stores East, LP violated federal disability discrimination law by denying...more
Giant Retailer Refused to Accommodate Disabled Employee by Reassigning Her to a Nearby Store, Federal Agency Charges - BANGOR, Maine - Walmart, Inc. violated federal law by failing to reassign a long-term employee to a...more
Last Monday, former Wal-Mart manager Kathryn Silva filed an ADA disability bias claim in the Middle District of Pennsylvania that alleged Wal-Mart terminated her because she refused to sign a “last chance agreement.” The...more
Retail Giant Suspended and Failed to Accommodate Longtime Deaf Employee With Visual Impairment, Federal Agency Charges - MADISON, Wis. - Wal-Mart violated federal law when it failed to accommodate a longtime employee...more
Retail Giant Refused to Make a Simple Accommodation for a Longtime Employee, Federal Agency Charges - MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Walmart violated federal law when it failed to accommodate and fired a longtime employee because of...more
Giant Retailer Unlawfully Denied Accommodations to and Harassed Cancer Survivor at Illinois Store, Federal Agency Charged - CHICAGO - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay a former employee $75,000 to settle a disability...more
As a recent federal appellate decision confirmed, the Americans with Disabilities Act does not require employers to always accommodate a disabled employee. Instead, it is the employee’s burden to first show that he or she...more
Keller Store Manager Was Harassed and Fired Because of His Age and Denied Accommodation for His Diabetes, Federal Agency Charged - DALLAS - Wal-Mart Stores of Texas, L.L.C. (Wal-Mart) has agreed to pay $150,000 and...more
Last October, I posted about a consent decree entered into between Wal-Mart and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in which Wal-Mart agreed to pay $72,500 to candidate for a store job in Maryland whose offer was...more