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Valid safety reason, but Fair Work still finds dismissal unfair - hcamag.com
A valid reason to dismiss, a clean record, and the steps the Commission found were missed A safety breach gave an employer a valid reason to dismiss a worker. The Fair Work Commission still found t...
Read moreEmployer proves its redundancy case but loses on one missing step - hcamag.com
The business case held up and redeployment was ruled out - so how did this dismissal still fail A cosmetics maker had a sound case for redundancy. One missing step made the dismissal unfair. The Fa...
Read moreCourt dismisses DCPS teacher's lawsuit over Facebook Live video - hcamag.com
He raised alarms about student safety - it wasn't enough to save his case A DC teacher who blasted his school in a profane Facebook Live video has lost his bid to sue for retaliation. On July 24, 2...
Read moreAppeals court restores worker's disability accommodation claim against NYC - hcamag.com
A supportive manager and past remote work were enough to keep the case alive A US appeals court restored a disabled worker's accommodation claim, sending it back to a lower court for another look. ...
Read moreNinth circuit revives worker's religious-exemption suit against Permanente medical group - hcamag.com
An initial approval, a reopened review, then a firing - and the dispute isn't over A federal appeals court has revived a consultant's religious-discrimination case, ruling she said enough to flag h...
Read moreEighth Circuit upholds summary judgment in worker's discrimination case - hcamag.com
She almost got fired for complaining - then her boss opened an investigation instead A construction worker's sex discrimination and retaliation claims failed on appeal after a federal court found n...
Read moreCourt dismisses worker's discrimination case against Whole Foods over deadline - hcamag.com
The judge never decided if the claims were true - here's what tripped up the filing A federal judge threw out a Whole Foods worker's discrimination and retaliation case, ruling he waited too long a...
Read moreNominee director escapes personal liability as father sues family kiwifruit company - hcamag.com
Her father made her a director at 18, then took the kiwifruit company to the Authority Authority member Simon Greening ruled on 9 July 2026 that a nominee director installed at 18 is not personally...
Read moreNLRB Judge Dings Starbucks For Union Response In Wash. - Law360
Starbucks managers placed the company on the hook for labor law violations when they interrogated a worker organizer about union activity at her Seattle-area store, told her to remove her union... ...
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Seventh Circuit Outlines Potential Path to Dismissal of Outsiders’ Qui Tam Actions - JD Supra
Executive Summary What’s new: The Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of an outsider’s qui tam action under the False Claims Act, outlining a potential path to dismissal where a relator lacks ins...