Click here to view entire E-Update as a PDF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS DOL Says that Employees May Use FMLA Leave to Participate in a Clinical Trial This month, the U.S. Department of Labor released an [...]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a proposed rule that would amend the existing recordkeeping regulations applicable to Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor and its Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced several matters of significance to federal contractors and subcontractors this month. These include [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected an employee’s claim that the actual decisionmaker in her termination was a “cat’s paw” (i.e. an unwitting dupe) for the discriminatory [...]
In Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, the Supreme Court ruled that adverse employment actions need not be “significant” in order to constitute a violation of Title VII’s prohibition against [...]
Click here to view entire E-Update as a PDF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Employers’ Use of AI Tracking or Monitoring Reports May Trigger Obligations Under FCRA In light of companies’ increasing use of AI [...]
Effective September 16, 2024, the Prince George’s County Ban-the-Box law has become more restrictive. As employers with employees in the County hopefully know, the County previously enacted a law [...]
Maryland, like a number of other states, has a law similar to the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, requiring employers to give 60 days’ notice of certain plant closings [...]
Employers are sometimes frustrated by the expansive scope of protections for employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act, but a recent case makes the point that an employee is not protected [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the National Labor Relations Board’s order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tweet, which the Board had found to be an unlawful threat of [...]
