Stoli Group, an exclusive distributor for Stolichnaya vodka, isn’t entitled to a grant of summary judgment on a terminated key account manager’s claim for a disputed 2019 bonus and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, a federal court in California ruled. Stoli terminated him in a restructuring before it issued incentive bonuses for 2019 to employees, and refused to pay him any bonus. The court agreed with the account manager that an employee handbook that contains the bonus policy’s terms isn’t a contract by its own disclaimer, and it also found that Stoli offered no evidence ...
The BBC has apologized and agreed to pay compensation to the couple behind PinkNews, an LGBTQ news website, after conceding that stories accusing them of sexual misconduct were false and defamator...