On Monday, the United States Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes. As expected, the decision was a victory for the retail giant. The Court denied the plaintiffs the right to proceed as a class on the grounds that the class failed to meet the commonality requirement, since the action was based […]
I had the fortunate opportunity to speak on Wednesday with Mike Devlin to a group of in-house counsel at the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Annual In-House Counsel CLE Lecture. The topic of discussion was recent employment law developments. Topics included the Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, NLRB trends under the Obama administration, the new […]
In addition to the paid sick leave law which we’ve been closing following as its made its way through the General Assembly, a new law affecting employers which will make “gender identity or expression” a new protected category passed the General Assembly this weekend and is heading to the Governor’s desk. Few employers will be […]
The paid sick leave bill before the Connecticut legislature passed the House on Saturday. It will now reach Governor Malloy’s desk for signature. As he is expected to sign, the bill will become law on January 1, 2012.
United States Senate bill, S.241 on the table this year proposes to expand the whistleblower protections of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (known as the McCaskill Amendment of the Act) to employees of employers who receive any federal funds—not just stimulus funds. The McCaskill Amendment protects employees of private contractors and state and local […]
On Wednesday, the State Senate narrowly (18-17) passed the bill requiring employers of fifty or more to provide paid sick leave to employees. This puts the act one step closer to passage. It heads to the House of Representatives next. However, the bill has been amended. In its current form, it applies only to “service […]
This is one of those (rare) moments where, as a school lawyer, you think common sense has prevailed. We shouldn’t need a decision from a State hearing officer to tell us that once a parent has revoked consent for special education services, then the parent cannot come back and claim that the district has denied […]
The much buzzed about Senate Bill 913, introduced by the Labor and Public Employees Committee, would require businesses that employ fifty or more to allow employees to take paid time off to recuperate from an illness or to care for a sick child. The bill would allow permanent full-time and part-time employees to accrue paid […]
The Americans with Disabilities Act was amended in 2008 (“ADAAA”) and imposed a number of significant changes, particularly as to the determination of who has a “disability” under the ADA. The ADAAA overturned several major Supreme Court cases and caused concern amongst employers attempting to figure out how the changes would impact their obligations under […]
On the heels of the well publicized settlement this past February between the Hartford office of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) and AMR of Connecticut resulting from the NLRB’s complaint that the employer unlawfully terminated an employee in response to the employee’s criticism of her supervisor on Facebook, another social media issue has caught […]
