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Governor Hogan has issued an Executive Order, effective 8:00 p.m. on March 30, 2020, requiring all Maryland residents to stay at home except to conduct essential activities. Certain employees of [...]

A hostile work environment can be created through a combination of both explicitly discriminatory and non-discriminatory (but offensive) comments, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [...]

As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stated, “an employer can hold alcoholic employees to the same standards as other employees, even if the behavior in question is related to [...]

As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found, an employee must engage in the reasonable accommodation process and must provide medical documentation that actually supports his [...]

In a warning to employers about their responsibility for the actions of low level employees under the FLSA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that a staffing company was [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that the district court had imposed an “unduly stringent” standard for a constructive discharge claim in finding the plaintiff failed to [...]

In another case of interest regarding the gig economy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a federal district court ruling that UberBLACK drivers were independent [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that required disclosure to applicants and employees before obtaining a consumer report under the Fair Credit Reporting Act could include a [...]

An employer could not enforce an arbitration agreement, purportedly requiring its employees to arbitrate any work-related disputes, where it could not produce a signed copy of the agreement, [...]

Several other federal agencies have announced COVID-19-related actions of interest to employers: The Department of Homeland Security has announced flexibility with regard to the Form I-9 [...]