New England Biz Law Update

Last month the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision holding that Walmart’s policy of refusing to provide light duty assignments to pregnant workers did not violate current law. In the case, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ...

When it comes to data breaches and other cybercrime, advanced attackers often abuse privileged access credentials to get to an organization’s sensitive data, infrastructure and systems. And with an increased number of companies relying on high volumes of data to ...

A woman who claimed she was repeatedly subjected to racial slurs by the minor son of a supervisor can move forward with her hostile work environment suit. The plaintiff in Chapman v. Oakland Living Center Inc., Tonya R. Chapman, alleges ...

In a case where a company argued that an employee’s Family and Medical Leave Act claim failed because the statute required him to use the company’s “usual and customary notice and procedural requirements for requesting leave” and he used Facebook ...

Where an employee alleged that he was fired because his exposure to COVID-19 led his employer to regard him as having a disability, but his complaint did not show he was regarded as disabled, he has failed to state a ...

An employee who routinely received above-average performance reviews and received the highest rating possible in her last two reviews before her termination will have her discrimination case heard by a jury. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the ...

Two and a half years out from the wide-spread arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, working from home has become much more of a choice for workers and jobseekers, rather than an emergency measure. According to the ...

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that state employees who were not members of unions were not entitled to a return of “fair share” fees collected before a landmark 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. In its 2018 ...

Earlier this summer the U.S. Supreme Court issued its expected ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled long-standing precedent and allowed individual states to regulate access to abortion services. At least twenty-six states immediately banned abortion or ...

A federal appellate court has reversed an award of summary judgment to U.S. Labor Secretary Martin Walsh in a fair labor suit brought against a Minnesota company. The court determined that the competing narratives of “employment relationship” and “independent contractor ...