

TITLE VII COVERS LGBTQ WORKERS
On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County holding that the protections of Title VII of the Civil...


$3.3M SETTLEMENT TO RESOLVE A DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT
On May 19, 2020, the EEOC announced that FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. agreed to pay $3.3 million to resolve a disability...


CAPPING THE NUMBER OF ALLOWABLE ABSENCES? BAD IDEA!
On May 4, 2020, the EEOC released a statement that Wayne Farms agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the EEOC on behalf...


WALMART TO PAY $5.2M IN DISABILITY BIAS CASE
On October 10, 2019, a jury found that Walmart violated the ADA by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a deaf and visually...


The Ministerial Exception Does Not Foreclose ADA Claims of Catholic School Teacher
On December 17, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of a...


The Second Circuit’s Analysis of the “Outside Sales” Exemption
This month, the Second Circuit vacated a district court order concluding that Time Warner’s Territory Sales Representatives (“TSRs”) who...


Seattle Considering Overtime and Minimum Wage Laws for In-home Domestic Workers
Currently, domestic workers who work within someone’s home are not entitled to minimum wage, mandatory breaks, or overtime pay rates....


Supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring
Today, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81, announced his plan to retire effective July 31, 2018. After Kennedy’s retirement, the...


Burden of Proving the Availability of a Reasonable Accommodation is on Plaintiff
On May 11, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that it is an employee’s burden to prove that an ADA accommodation was...


DOL Issues An Opinion Regarding FMLA-Related Breaks
On April 12, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued an opinion letter regarding whether a non-exempt employee’s 15-minute...