A federal court denied summary judgment to Accordius Health, LLC on a certified nursing assistant’s claim alleging retaliatory discharge in violation of North Carolina’s Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act. The CNA alleged that she injured her back on the job andfiled for workers’ compensation, and that when she returned to work on light duty with her physician’s work restrictions that she wasn’t to lift more than 50 pounds, she was constantly required to lift above the imposed weight restrictions because of her work duties, exacerbating her injury. The court rejected Accordius’s arguments that it fired her because she left work because ...
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INDIANAPOLIS — Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell announced that county election officials are pushing back against viral social media posts falsely claiming that ballots marked by poll workers...