By Stephen A. Antonelli and Alexandra G. Farone | November 26, 2024
Just as many employers were finalizing their 2025 budgets, on Nov. 15, 2024, a federal court in Texas issued a nationwide injunction six weeks before the second of two meaningful changes to the federal overtime law was set to take effect.
By Charles Toutant | November 25, 2024
"This outrageous verdict simply does not reflect the straightforward and uncontested facts of this case," a Walmart spokesperson said. "Accordingly, we will pursue all available remedies."
By Mason Lawlor | November 19, 2024
According to the case law from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, courts may consider indirect costs such as health and safety along with direct economic costs when determining an "undue hardship" from granting an accommodation.
By ALM Staff | November 18, 2024
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
By Adam Klein | November 15, 2024
Outten & Golden's managing partner responds to a recent letter to the New York Law Journal over its decision to drop a Columbia University professor as a client over her comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
By Christian Petrucci | November 15, 2024
As was noted in this space some time ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was considering an employer’s petition for allowance of appeal in Sicilia v. API Roofers Advantage Program (Workers' Compensation Appeals Board), which necessarily implicated Duffey v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (Trola-Dyne). The Supreme Court did issue its decision in Sicilia on July 17, 2024, but an evenly divided court failed to disturb either the underlying, Commonwealth Court decision or Duffey.
By Mason Lawlor | November 15, 2024
Noah Hurwitz told Law.com that he believes the decision issued last week by a Michigan federal jury is just the fourth religious accommodation case to reach a jury trial since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.
By A. Judd Woytek | November 14, 2024
While not a complete default judgment, the granting of a Yellow Freight motion by a WCJ will often mean that a claim is found compensable and benefits are payable with the burden of proof shifting to the employer to prove that benefits should be modified, suspended or terminated.
By Lisa Willis | November 14, 2024
"Is it going be hard to prove? Yes," plaintiff counsel conceded. "Is it going to be hard to convince a jury that a male was discriminated against? Yes. But there are witnesses, and they will testify as to what they saw."
By James Palmer | November 14, 2024
The decision, which drew a dissent from the sole Republican on the board, upends 76 years of precedent.
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