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Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on April 17, 2013 The highly anticipated immigration reform bill has been formally introduced by a bi-partisan group of Senators. The proposal for significant changes to the nation’s immigration system (consisting of almost 850 pages), the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization...
| | Labor Board Battles Challenges to Authority
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Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on April 14, 2013 National Labor Relations Board authority is being challenged on several fronts following the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s ruling that the NLRB did not have the authority to act. A case involving a representation petition filed at the NLRB by a union seeking to...
| | Title VII Retaliation Suit to Proceed Despite Failure of Underlying Hostile Work Environment Claim, Federal Court Rules
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Legal Alert/Article April 16, 2013, previously published on April 15, 2013 The offensive conduct of a co-worker and a supervisor, consisting of comments and incidents sexual in nature alleged by the plaintiff, was not severe or pervasive enough to create a hostile work environment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal appeals court in San Francisco...
| | New Mexico, Utah Curb Employers from Demanding Private Social Media Information
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Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 15, 2013 New Mexico and Utah are joining California, Illinois, Maryland and Michigan in limiting employers’ access to social media accounts.
| | Employer Seeks En Banc Review of Federal Appeals Court Decision Liberalizing SOX Whistleblowing Standards
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Legal Alert/Article April 11, 2013, previously published on April 10, 2013 Tyco Electronics Corp. has filed for en banc review of a federal Court of Appeals’ decision in Wiest v. Lynch, No. 11-4257 (3d Cir. Mar. 19, 2013), in which a majority of a Third Circuit panel adopted a liberal standard for determining protected whistleblower activity under the whistleblower...
| | New York Minimum Wage to Increase in Stages
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Legal Alert/Article April 10, 2013, previously published on April 9, 2013 After significant lobbying and legislative haggling, Governor Andrew Cuomo on March 29, 2013, signed legislation that increases the New York State minimum wage rate starting December 31, 2013. This is New York’s first minimum wage increase since July 24, 2009, when it was increased to match...
| | Partial Deafness Not a Disability under ADA, Federal Court Rules
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Legal Alert/Article April 10, 2013, previously published on April 5, 2013 Deafness in one ear is not a disability under the American with Disabilities Act, as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, because the plaintiff could not establish she was substantially limited in the major life activity of hearing, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled in Mengel v. Reading...
| | Supreme Court Decisions May Bolster Class Action Defense Theories
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Legal Alert/Article April 10, 2013, previously published on April 9, 2013 Two recent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court may give employers additional arguments in defending class action litigation. Lower courts must conduct a “rigorous analysis” to determine whether damages can be proven on a class-wide basis, the U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed in a 5-4...
| | Philadelphia Mayor Strikes Down Mandatory Paid Sick Leave Bill
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Legal Alert/Article April 10, 2013, previously published on April 5, 2013 Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter has vetoed legislation that would require local employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees.
| | New Mexico Enacts Equal Pay Law, Prohibiting Sex-Based Wage Discrimination, Giving Direct Court Action
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Legal Alert/Article April 8, 2013, previously published on April 4, 2013 New Mexico’s new equal pay law, the Fair Pay for Women Act (“FPWA”), prohibits wage discrimination based on an employee’s sex and allows employees to bring wage discrimination claims directly in court, without first filing with any administrative agency. Signed by Governor...
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