All Items: Employee Discipline

California to Assume Adverse Actions Are Retaliation Unless Employers Prove Otherwise

Date:

October 16, 2023

A recently signed law creates a rebuttable presumption than an employer has unlawfully retaliated against an employee if the employer takes adverse actions shortly after the employee engaged in certain protected activities.
New York Passes Even More New Employment Laws

Date:

September 21, 2023

New York will soon require employers to provide employees notice of unemployment benefits, prohibit employers from demanding social media or email logins, and increase the weekly salary threshold for exemptions from wage payment laws.
NLRB Restricts Discipline for Employee Misconduct During Protected Activities

Date:

May 3, 2023

Disciplining an employee for misconduct committed while the employee is participating in protected concerted activities may violate the NLRA, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled.
New Jersey Enacts Protections for Temporary Workers

Date:

February 22, 2023

Temporary workers in New Jersey will have greater protections against unpaid wages, unsafe working conditions, unlawful deductions, and other forms of mistreatment under the recently signed Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights.
DOL Orders Wells Fargo to Pay $22 Million for Firing Whistleblower

Date:

September 13, 2022

The Department of Labor found the company violated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provisions by improperly terminating a manager who voiced concerns about financial misconduct.
HR Managers Protected From Retaliation, 11th Circuit Rules

Date:

July 15, 2022

Title VII's retaliation protections do not exempt HR managers and other managerial-level employees, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to Be First Black Woman on Supreme Court

Date:

February 25, 2022

President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, to be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. If confirmed, it would also mark the first time four of the nine justices have been women.
California Supreme Court Eases Path for Whistleblowing Employees

Date:

February 1, 2022

In a win for whistleblowers, the California Supreme Court has lowered the bar for employees to prove that their employer retaliated against them.

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All Items: Employee Discipline

California to Assume Adverse Actions Are Retaliation Unless Employers Prove Otherwise

New York Passes Even More New Employment Laws

NLRB Restricts Discipline for Employee Misconduct During Protected Activities

New Jersey Enacts Protections for Temporary Workers

DOL Orders Wells Fargo to Pay $22 Million for Firing Whistleblower

HR Managers Protected From Retaliation, 11th Circuit Rules

Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to Be First Black Woman on Supreme Court

California Supreme Court Eases Path for Whistleblowing Employees

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