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Policies prohibiting use of e-mail for union organizing held Lawful

  • Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2008

In a long-awaited decision, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that companies may prohibit employees from using company-owned e-mail systems to organize unions

Union must be allowed to distribute handbills in shopping mall

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2008

Asked by the NLRB to opine whether California law allows a mall owner to restrict a union from distributing handbills calling for a consumer boycott of a mall tenant, the California Supreme Court held that such a restriction violated the state Constitution's free speech clause because a mall is a "public forum."

$2.5 million to one person to settle race discrimination suit

  • Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2008

On January 2, 2008, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a $2.5 million settlement of a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest military contractor

Largest Title VII class certification in US history upheld by Ninth Circuit

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 14 2007

On Tuesday, February 6, 2007, a divided three-member panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s ruling which certified the largest employment discrimination class action in U.S. history

Mutual trust and confidence

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2008

The judgement in the high-profile case of RDF Media Group v Clements held that an employee who is in breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence cannot rely on their employer's subsequent breach to claim constructive dismissal and avoid restrictive covenants

Sheppard Mullin wins major victory in challenge to 12-hour shift pay practices

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2008

On December 5, 2007, the United States District Court, Central District of California, granted Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP's Motion for Summary Judgment filed on behalf of Defendant Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center ("PVHMC") in one of the most significant wage and hour class action lawsuits currently pending before any federal or California state court

Tennessee Supreme Court extends workers' comp coverage to telecommuters

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2008

The state’s highest court recently ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Act covers telecommuters injured while working from home, but only if the injury arises out of and occurs in the course of employment

NLRB issues long-awaited ruling on e-mail policies

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 27 2007

After holding employers in suspense for several years, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has recently issued its much-anticipated ruling on the application of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to restrictions on employee use of employer-provided e-mail systems

Court clarifies burden of proof for USERRA discriminationretaliation claims

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 7 2007

The First Circuit Court of Appeal recently clarified the burden of proof employees and employers bear in connection with discrimination and retaliation claims under the Uniform Services Employment and Redeployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), and thereby aligned itself with all other federal courts of appeal that had previously considered the issue

The Price is Right verdict

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 18 2012

A California jury awarded a former "The Price is Right" model, Brandi Cochran, over $8.5 million for pregnancy discrimination. Ms. Cochran, who worked on

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