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Saturday, October 24, 2026

Case: Individual Employment Rights/Wrongful Discharge (D. Haw.) - Bloomberg Law

A federal court in Hawaii ruled that a company that develops in-flight entertainment systems for commercial airline carriers is entitled to summary judgment on the wrongful discharge claim of an employee who claimed that he was unlawfully terminated because he filed for temporary disability benefits with Hawaii’s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Panasonic Avionics Corporation argued that the decisionmakers who implemented furloughs and layoffs were unaware that the employee had filed for TDI benefits, and that it had legitimate business reasons to lay him off due to the downturn in its business caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The employee ...

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