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African Legal Awards Employment Law Team of the Year: Hogan Lovells

Full details of the Employment Law Team of the Year category at the African Legal Awards
2 minute read

International Edition

African Legal Awards Employment Law Team of the Year: Hogan Lovells

Full details of the Employment Law Team of the Year category at the African Legal Awards
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Will New Laws Change Your Employee Handbook?

 On Jan. 1, 2016, Texas became the 45th state to allow some form of open carrying of firearms. The Texas statute allows licensed handgun owners…
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

SCOTUS Rebuffs Bid to Clarify Evidence Standard for FMLA Claims

The U.S. Supreme Court turned aside a chance to resolve a split-circuit disagreement about the standard of evidence required to save a Family Medical Leave Act action from summary judgment, says a disappointed plaintiffs lawyer.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

ADA Disability Discrimination Suit Thrown Out by Federal Judge

A federal judge has dismissed a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by a man who was fired for allegedly falsifying a Family Medical Leave Act timesheet.U.S.…
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

NLRB and EEOC Update: The Latest in Nominations and Confirmations

While all three branches of the federal government can impact labor and employment law on the national level, most major changes come from two executive branch departments—the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Labor (DOL)—and two independent agencies—the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Former Jets Linebacker Claims Bipolar Disorder Got Him Cut

The New York Jets are accused in a disability discrimination suit pending in federal court of cutting former linebacker Erin Henderson from the team…
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Manhattan Judge Confirms $2.3M Arbitration Award to Ex-UBS Trader

A Manhattan Supreme Court justice has confirmed an arbitration panel's award of $2.3 million to a former UBS trader terminated for allegedly allowing an $18 billion trade without authorization.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Bus Driver Fired for Refusing 'Mark of the Devil' in Background Check Can Sue Employer

A school bus driver fired after refusing to be fingerprinted for a background check because she believed it would mean she was accepting the "mark of the devil" can sue her employer for religious discrimination, a federal judge has ruled.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

What the US Labor Department's Overtime Appeal Means for Companies

The fate of the Obama-era regulation that made millions of more workers eligible for overtime pay remains unresolved after the U.S. Labor Department on Monday moved to defend the agency's power to set such a rule. “There is a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety and ambiguity,” one lawyer said. “This might be the biggest mess I've ever seen. There are a lot of complicated issues."
7 minute read

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