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While the 2008 amendments to the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) made it much easier for employees to claim disabled status, at least one court has declared that employers can still challenge that determination successfully under ...
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently rebuked a trial court for laboring under the false impression that an employer must be angry about an applicant’s pregnancy in order to unlawfully discriminate against it. Instead, pregnancy-based discrimination ...
It has been carved in stone for 70 years that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) forbids comp time in lieu of overtime for nonexempt employees. However, the House of Representatives has just passed a ...
On Thursday May 4, 2017, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act of 2017. The legislation, which repeals the Affordable Health Care Act passed during the Obama administration, must move onto the Senate, ...
Despite legal challenges, the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are preparing to implement their respective mandatory sick leave ordinances on July 1, 2017. In St. Paul, employers with 23 or fewer employees get a reprieve ...
It’s no longer breaking news that Bill O’Reilly has been ousted from his exalted spot in the heart of the Fox News nightly line-up. The real story behind the scenes, however, is how long it took to get ...
It is an all too common experience when an employee announces he or she is leaving and shortly thereafter huge amounts of a company’s data are missing, sabotaged, or evidence shows massive downloads by the ...
In March, the European Court of Justice ruled that employers can lawfully prohibit female Muslim employees from wearing headscarves at work, a decision that would not likely be issued in American courts. The lawsuit involved two ...
