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EEOC Won’t Get its Prescription Filled at CVS: Case Challenging its Releases...
On October 7th, a federal district judge granted summary judgment against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in its lawsuit against CVS. The EEOC had challenged the nation’s...
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Global Employers: How Are You Managing Workplace Concerns About Ebola?
While the world moves quickly to contain the Ebola virus, businesses across the globe are scrambling to figure out how best to manage workplace concerns and protect their employees. But as employers...
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EEOC Gets Schooled: Court Expels Challenge to College’s Separation Agreements
For the second time in less than two months, a federal district court judge has dismissed a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) challenge to an employer’s separation agreement due to...
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High Court Says “Let It Ride”; Limo Company Fails to Flag Down Enough...
On January 20, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in CLS Transportation Los Angeles LLC v. Iskanian, leaving intact a decision by the California Supreme Court holding that representative...
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Whistle While You Work: SEC Announces First Retaliation Whistleblower Award
On June 16, 2014, the SEC issued its first-ever charge of whistleblower retaliation under section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act, charging a hedge fund advisor and its owner with “engaging in prohibited...
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Swinging for the Fences: Minor Leaguers Continue Suit Alleging They Were Paid...
Baseball season is well underway as fans fill themselves up on hot dogs and beers, don their rally caps for some late-inning luck, and cheer for their favorite players. Meanwhile, a class action...
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Time To Pay Up? California Adopts Stronger Equal Pay Protections
With Governor Jerry Brown’s signature, California officially amended its equal pay legislation through the California Fair Pay Act (the Act) to include more employee-friendly provisions. The Act, which...
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For Whom The Whistle Blows: SEC Whistleblower Office Issues Its 2015 Annual...
The SEC released its Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Report (the “Report”) to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program on November 16, 2015. The Report analyzes the tips received over the last twelve...
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Justice Scalia’s Employment Law Legacy
On February 13, 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia, the anchor of the Court’s conservative wing for nearly three decades, passed away. He leaves behind a distinguished legal career that involved experience...
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Three’s Company: SEC Awards Nearly $2 Million to Whistleblower Trio
On March 8, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order awarding a trio of whistleblowers a bounty of almost $2 million. One whistleblower will receive the lion’s share of the...
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Supreme Court Ties Underscore Justice Scalia’s Missing Influence
After the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, we predicted: “Justice Scalia’s passing will immediately impact several employment-related cases pending before the Court.” Specifically, cases in which...
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Can You Hear The Whistle Blowing?: OECD Releases Report On Global...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”), an international organization whose goal is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people across...
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Bonus Points: ARB Upholds Whistleblower Order Challenging Bonus Plan
The Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (“ARB”) recently upheld an order finding a semiconductor company had constructively discharged a manager who complained the company’s bonus plan...
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BREAKING: President Obama Signs Defend Trade Secrets Act Into Law
This afternoon, as anticipated, President Barack Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act into law, wrapping up a lengthy bipartisan effort to bring trade secrets under federal system law. Some...
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O Canada: The U.S.’s Neighbor To The North Proposes Its Own Whistleblower...
The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”), Canada’s largest securities regulator, has proposed establishing its own whistleblower program for individuals to report suspected securities fraud, marking...
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Tipping the Scales: Whistleblower Awarded $3.5 Million For Information That...
Last Friday, the SEC announced a whistleblower award of more than $3.5 million to an employee whose tip advanced an SEC investigation into the whistleblower’s company. According to the Order, while...
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Hittin’ The Trifecta: Latest Whistleblower Bounty Makes Three Awards In One Week
On Friday, May 20th, the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower issued an order determining that it would award two whistleblowers $450,000 for voluntarily providing original information to the agency that...
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Court-Sanctioned Employee Theft? Self-Help Discovery May Be Protected...
Recently in Verdrager v. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., No. SJC-11901, 2015 WL 10937776 (Mass. May 31, 2016), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held, as a matter of...
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California Divide: What California Employers Can Expect In 2017
As California goes, so goes the nation. When it comes to employment law, the Golden State is continuing down a path of increased regulation. With 2017 right around the corner, here are some new laws...
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Whistle While You Work: SEC Whistleblower Office Releases Its 2016 Annual Report
The SEC released its Fiscal Year 2016 Annual Report (the “Report”) to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program on November 15, 2016. The Report analyzes the tips received over the last twelve...
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