5/16/2024 7:55:58 PM Supreme Court holds courts must stay – not dismiss – cases pending arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act By Mariah McGrogan Joshua Sallmen Today, the Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously in Smith v. Spizzirri, No. 22-1218, that cases involving arbitrable disputes subject...
2/26/2024 9:35:41 PM Supreme Court eases employees’ burden to establish SOX retaliation claims and possibly other whistleblower claims By Amanda Brown Heather Raun On February 8, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued Murray v. UBS Securities LLC, No. 22-660, which addressed the proper framework for...
6/29/2023 8:11:44 PM Affirmative action effectively ended in college admissions by U.S. Supreme Court decision By Jeffrey Weimer Cori Smith Today, the U.S. Supreme Court published its opinion in the cases challenging University of Carolina (UNC) and Harvard’s race-conscious...
7/22/2022 10:43:22 AM Holiday Pay: the latest instalment By Alison Heaton Carl De Cicco As we start the summer holidays, the Supreme Court’s judgment on holiday pay is a timely reminder of the complexities of calculating...
12/18/2021 7:01:43 PM BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court reinstates OSHA vaccine ETS By Mark Goldstein James Holt Mara Curtis Emily Harbison Brenda Rosales-Carrillo +2 more... Show less On December 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved the stay previously placed on OSHA’s so-called “vaccinate or test”...
4/8/2021 3:08:32 PM Equal pay: Comparators in different establishments By Graham Green Laura Brown In the long-running case of Asda Stores v Brierley and others, the Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of an equal pay claim, a...
1/15/2021 9:26:57 AM Implications of Brexit for UK employment law By David Ashmore Carlene Nicol 2021 marks the start of a new era for the UK, the Brexit transition period having ended at 11pm on 31 December 2020. After endless rounds...
7/1/2020 4:58:37 PM Understanding the employment implications of the Supreme Court decision upholding DACA By Michael Lombardino Abby Kotun On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision allowing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to continue...
6/15/2020 8:24:21 PM Expanding the definition of sex: SCOTUS rules employers cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. By Halber Armstrong Gavin Carpenter On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, No. 17-1618 (U.S. Jun. 15,...
3/26/2020 1:33:32 PM Supreme Court confirms race discrimination claims under section 1981 require “but-for” causation By Jill Vorobiev John McDonald Amy Harwath On March 23, 2020, in Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American Owned Media, the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split...