The district court granted summary judgment to the funeral home, and this appeal followed.
Donald Zarda was a skydiving instructor employed at Altitude Express.
In a precedential decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the "but-for" standard applies in retaliation cases filed under the False Claims Act (FCA).
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Jo Bennett and Samantha Banks published an article, "Crucial Labor and Employment Issues on the Line in Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Case," in MBA Insights, the weekly news magazine of the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Payments made pursuant to a confidential settlement of sexual harassment allegations will no longer be a permissible tax deduction for business under a little-noticed provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The United States Supreme Court has denied certiorari in the case of Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital, in effect leaving in place an Eleventh Circuit ruling ...
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The issue of sexual harassment has captured nationwide headlines as individuals have come forward to report harassment by high profile public figures.
Repeated reports of sexual misconduct by high-profile men have put sexual harassment issues in the public eye.
In response to a surge of sexual misconduct allegations throughout the country, Democratic state senators in Pennsylvania on Wednesday announced legislation that would ban agreements...
UPDATE (10/04/2017). Read the blog post linked below for a brief assessment of the oral argument. It looks like "a deeply divided Court."
While the case before the Supreme Court remains pending, employers should be mindful of the uncertainty of the legality of class-action waivers.
The new rules announced in late 2016 revising the Employer Information EEO-1 report on pay data collection have been placed on hold.
The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking public input on what to do with the Obama administration overtime rule.
In a decision issued last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit clarified that a single comment may give rise to a claim of workplace harassment.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced last week that it had settled a suit against Pallet Companies (doing business as IFCO Systems) for $202,200.
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