Wage and Hour, Termination, Summary Judgment

7 strikes, and this employer is OUT!

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/22/2025

Employer going to trial in age discrimination case. We had a blizzard last Friday (in North Carolina, 2 inches is a blizzard), and we still have ice and snow on the ground a week later. Anyway, I've had enough of winter now...more

Federal Court Rules Employer Did Not Violate Illinois Privacy Law for Firing Worker Testing Positive for Cannabis

Amundsen Davis LLC on 7/30/2024

It seems like a lifetime ago that we first posted on the legalization of cannabis in Illinois and its effect on Illinois employers, way back in November 2019. At that time we provided a detailed overview of the clarifications...more

What Is My Assumption of Risk? - McGlinchey Commercial Law Bulletin - September 11, 2023

McGlinchey Stafford on 9/12/2023

Assumption of the Risk- Smith v. Be Fit with Michelle, LLC, 11th Dist. Lake, No. 2023-Ohio-3118. In this appeal, the Eleventh Appellate District affirmed the trial court’s decision to grant the defendant summary judgment...more

California Supreme Court Agrees To Answer Question About Employment Retaliation

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/19/2021

Is the California Supreme Court about to make it more difficult to dispose of whistleblower retaliation claims? That may well be the case. The Supreme Court has agreed to answer the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ question...more

Termination Pay Penalties: Easy To Incur, Impossible To Reduce?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/1/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: Employers must pay “waiting time” penalties for willfully failing to timely pay wages due upon termination. Last week the California Court of Appeal dealt employers a double whammy: (i) mere negligence can...more

Fourth Circuit Says Failure to Advise Employee of Leave Reinstatement Interfered with FMLA Rights

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 7/18/2016

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2002 Ragsdale decision rejected Department of Labor regulations stating that failure to provide employees with notice of leave rights was a per se violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act....more

Primer on West Virginia State Law Labor and Employment Claims

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/1/2013

On January 4, 2013, Judge Irene M. Keeley of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order that partially granted the Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment...more

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