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Legal Alert/Article April 25, 2013, previously published on April 25, 2013 An amendment to Tennessee’s Wage Regulations Act eliminating private suits for state wage-hour violations and giving the state Department of Labor exclusive power to enforce the law has been signed by Governor Bill Haslam. Previously, aggrieved workers could initiate a civil court proceeding;...
| | Age Discrimination Not Evidenced by Age-Related Comments, Federal Appeals Court Concludes
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Legal Alert/Article April 25, 2013, previously published on April 24, 2013 Affirming summary judgment in favor of the employer in an age discrimination action under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that age-related statements allegedly made to an employee were...
| | Supreme Court Rules ERISA Plan Language Trumps Equitable Defenses to Plan’s Reimbursement Claim
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Legal Alert/Article April 25, 2013, previously published on April 25, 2013 The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an ERISA health plan provision permitting the plan to seek reimbursement from a plan participant overrides such equitable defenses as unjust enrichment. US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, No. 11-1285 (U.S. Apr. 16, 2013).
| | California Appeals Court Rejects ‘Me Too’ Evidence in Race and National Origin Discrimination Case
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Legal Alert/Article April 25, 2013, previously published on April 22, 2013 A trial court properly excluded an employee’s “me too” evidence of alleged discrimination against employees of races different than the plaintiff’s, the California Court of Appeal has ruled in a race and national origin discrimination case under the California Fair...
| | 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...
| | Private Attorneys from Same Firm Cannot be Public Entity’s Advisor and Advocate in Single Matter, California Court Rules
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Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on April 17, 2013 “Agencies are barred from using a partner in a law firm as an advocate in a contested matter and another partner from the same law firm as an advisor to the decision maker in the same matter,” the California Court of Appeal has ruled in an arbitration case involving the termination of a...
| | Immigration Reform Bill Introduced in Senate
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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...
| | 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...
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