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Calif. Forecast: Sony Tries To Escape Sex Bias Suit - Law360
In the coming week, labor and employment attorneys should watch as a California federal court considers whether to dismiss a proposed class and collective action against Sony accusing the company ...
Read moreIs Hunter the Real Whistleblower? – Ricochet - Ricochet.com
John Paul Mac Isaac has a vision disability that prevents him from identifying Hunter as the drunken man who dropped off Hunter’s laptops at Isaac’s computer repair shop in April of 2019. But eve...
Read moreDeshaun Watson’s Risk of NFL Discipline Rises as Lawsuits Expand - Sportico
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson recently avoided criminal charges over allegations that he assaulted massage therapists, but 22 civil lawsuits against him stand, and in two of them, t...
Read moreOntario, Canada: Mandatory Vaccination Policy Upheld Despite Government's Reduction of COVID-19 Restrictions - Littler Mendelson PC
On April 4, 2022, in Extendicare Lynde Creek Retirement Residence and United Food & Commercial Workers Canada, Local 175, Arbitrator Stephen Raymond upheld a retirement home’s mandatory vacci...
Read moreWorking for $2.50 per hour: US Department of Labor's crackdown on grossly exploitive, abusive pay practices in San Diego continues - US Department of Labor
Federal court orders three customs warehouses to pay almost $2M in back wages, penalties SAN DIEGO – While dozens of companies along the U.S. border in California hire workers from Mexico to labo...
Read moreGerman Employment Law and Equal Rights Gender Equality - The National Law Review
International Women’s Day, which draws attention to women’s rights and gender equality worldwide, has been celebrated since 1911. In order to counteract any inequalities that women may face in th...
Read moreArian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali created potential national security risk, prosecutors say - The Washington Post
Two men accused of posing as federal law enforcement employees and cozying up to Secret Service agents had amassed a stockpile of police weapons, surveillance equipment, devices to make federal g...
Read moreSyracuse's Former City Counsel Returns To Bond Schoeneck - Law360
Syracuse, New York-based Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC announced that an attorney coming off a four-year stint serving as the city's corporation counsel has returned to the firm as a partner...
Read moreWashington Revises Its Pay Transparency Law to Require Proactive Salary Disclosure - Lexology
On March 30, 2022, Governor Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill (SB) 5761, updating Washington’s existing pay transparency law. Previously, after an employer made an initial job offer to an external ap...
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South Korea Cracks Down on Surging Social Service Voucher Fraud with Location Tracking and License Revocation - BigGo Finance
South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has announced strengthened measures to combat fraud in social service electronic vouchers. Last year, detected fraudulent claims reached 47.88 billion w...
