July 4th 2022
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In March 2022, Yale University announced a motion to settle a class action for $1.29 million after employees alleged that the University’s Health Expectations Program violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination...
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that employers cannot request that an employee-filed petition for union decertification be reinstated, Bloomberg Law reports. The precise issue in the case, Geodis Logistics, was whether the National Labor Relations Act...
Fertility benefits are on the rise in American employee benefits packages. In vitro fertilization (IVF) coverage rose steadily in the last five years for both medium and large employers. Facebook and Apple were first movers in covering egg freezing in 2014. Now,...
This post is the second of a two-part series that addresses caste discrimination in American workplaces. Part I discussed the history of the Indian caste system and how caste discrimination may surface in American workplaces. Part II, below, describes where caste...
This post is the first of a two-part series that addresses caste discrimination in American workplaces. Part I, below, discusses the history of the Indian caste system and how caste discrimination may surface in American workplaces. Part II describes where caste...
Yesterday, members of Third Circuit Court of Appeals cast doubt on whether the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recent decision against The Federalist would withstand appellate scrutiny. The case, FDRLST Media v. NLRB, 3d Cir. No. 20-03434, arose in...
On August 23rd, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. Shortly thereafter, President Biden called on private companies to mandate vaccinations. He has since ordered all companies with more than 100 workers to require vaccination...
On Friday, in Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the ministerial exception applied to a ministerial employee’s hostile work environment claims brought under Title VII and the ADA. The...
In Christian Labor Ass’n v. City of Duluth, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has held that an independent union — along with three businesses and two independent workers — have standing to sue three Minnesota cities and a public...
The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the organizing rights of California farmworkers yesterday, ruling in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, 141 S. Ct. 891 (2021) that state regulations issued under the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA) to unions...
May 25, last week, was the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. Professional athletes marked the occasion by advocating for the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, building on the collective political action jumpstarted during last year’s...
An in depth article on this topic by the author, titled "When Harassment at Work is Harassment at Church," is forthcoming in The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (2021). “Ministerial employee of a religious...