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The Legal Intelligencer

Planning a Future for Graduating Foreign Students in Extraordinary Times

Graduation caps are soaring across the United States, as millions of college students complete their studies and prepare to enter the workforce.
5 minute read

The Recorder

The Case for Revising California's Harassment-Prevention Training Law

Employers should be free to cover what is most needed and appropriate at their workplace and should be held accountable for how effective the training is in preventing harassment—not for checking the boxes.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Litigator of the Week: Midland Lawyer Wins $1 Million in Suit Claiming Sexual Harassment of Pregnant Woman

As a board-certified attorney in labor and employment law, Holly Williams admits that she and her law firm tend to stay away from filing sexual harassment…
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'Epic Systems,' Heading Off 3rd Circuit's Ruling on Class Waivers, Seen as Curb on Wage Litigation

The "Epic Systems" ruling "was a big decision, in that it reinforced the current state of the law," said Mitchell Boyarsky, a management-side employment lawyer at Gibbons in New York.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Did the Commonwealth Court Just Make 'Protz' Retroactive? Define 'Retroactive'

Almost immediately after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its game-changing workers' compensation ruling in Protz last year, attorneys began gearing up to litigate the natural follow-up question: Should the decision be applied retroactively? A much buzzed-about June 6 ruling by the Commonwealth Court en banc may have finally answered that question.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

On Remand From High Court, Waffle House 'Sextortion' Suit Back in Court of Appeals

After a jury acquitted the former housekeeper and her lawyers of criminal charges related to secretly video recording former Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr. engaged in a sex act, the Georgia Supreme Court sent the related civil appeals back to the Court of Appeals for reconsideration.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Divided Court Says Trucker Fired for Using Racial Slur Not Entitled to UC Benefits

In a split decision denying unemployment compensation benefits to a truck driver who was fired for using a racial slur, a sole dissenting Commonwealth Court judge said the man should not have been found to have committed willful misconduct given his employer's history of leniency regarding racial epithets.
3 minute read

Law.com

Labor of Law: EEOC's Reflections on #MeToo | Sizing Up the Gig Workforce | Plus: The Latest Laterals & More

We've got highlights from the EEOC's sexual harassment task force meeting, where management-side and plaintiffs lawyers made observations about #MeToo and what's next. Plus: scroll down for who got the work in some of big cases, and check out the latest on the moves front. Thanks for reading!
10 minute read

National Law Journal

PTAB Chief Accusing Former Employer of Sexual Orientation, Disability Bias

Chief Judge David Ruschke alleges he was laid off from Medtronic's in-house department for pretextual reasons in 2015.
5 minute read

The Recorder

PTAB Chief Accusing Former Employer Medtronic of Sexual Orientation, Disability Bias

Chief Judge David Ruschke alleges he was laid off from Medtronic's in-house department for pretextual reasons in 2015 in a lawsuit playing out in Oakland federal court.
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