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
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Virginia AG Reaches $1.3 Million Settlement with NFL Team...more
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
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
On Jan. 12, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey held in Ramos v. WalMart, Inc. that Pennsylvania plaintiffs have up to six years to file claims against employers for improper use of criminal history...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
Applying the Supreme Court’s longstanding rule that Title VII requires employers to accommodate religious practices unless doing so would impose more than a “slight burden,” the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a...more
A Twitter-based crypto scam managed to hack some high-profile accounts Wednesday. VERY high profile...more
In Washington: The White House denies that it is trying to undermine the nation’s top disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Today the President’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro blasted Dr. Fauci’s handling of the coronavirus in...more
They say the only thing in life that is constant is change, and we certainly saw that in 2019. This was a big year for change in employment law as legislators, courts, and regulators, shaped the workplace to reflect societal...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
Key Points- Direct evidence of a plan to engage in repeated strikes to achieve a common goal establishes that such strikes are unprotected, intermittent strikes. Only in the absence of direct evidence will the Board...more
In recent months, we have seen a large uptick in FCRA class actions. If you’re a regular reader here at FCRALand, you may recall the Stanford class action filed in October 2018, the PetCo class settlement in November 2018,...more
In Luna v. Wal-Mart Trans., LLC, 2018 WL 5726204 (W.D. Ark. Nov. 1, 2018), the Court provided a good reminder that there are exceptions to the FCRA’s “stand-alone” disclosure requirement. Under the facts of the case,...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
Last week, a federal jury (after only 3 hours of deliberation) awarded a Walmart female pharmacist... wait for it... $31 MILLION! Maureen McPadden, a 13-year Wal-Mart pharmacist, brought an action alleging retaliatory...more
Last week was a big one for the EEOC. Among other things, the agency initiated a lawsuit against McDonald’s Corporate and a Missouri franchisee because the franchisee refused to provide a deaf applicant a sign language...more
The days of lighting up at the office are making a comeback in some workplaces, thanks to the growing popularity of electronic cigarettes. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2013, one in five adult smokers...more
Laura Jones was offered a sales job at the Wal-Mart store in Cockeysville, Maryland, and was told that she would have to take a drug test. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Ms. Jones told an...more