Blog Posts in May, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that black firefighters did not miss the deadline to file a cause of action for race discrimination against the City of Chicago, holding that reliance on a ...

As the number of older Americans in the work place continues to increase, so does the number of Americans facing age discrimination at work. If you are over 40, the Age Discrimination in Employment ...

Many times job applications contain “legalese” – language that may waive a right or in someway limit an employee’s path to recovery. However, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth ...

Many times as a condition of employment a new hire will sign an employment agreement containing a mandatory arbitration agreement. Often, these arbitration agreements provide that an arbitrator has ...

Using medical marijuana doesn’t constitute a disability requiring reasonable accommodations , the Oregon Supreme Court decided earlier this month. In Emerald Steel Fabricators v. Bureau of Labor ...