Monthly Archives: October, 2009
FMLA Expansion Comes to Fruition
As I predicted yesterday, President Obama signed into law the Fiscal Year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2647). The new law includes an expansion of the recently-enacted exigency and … Continue reading
More FMLA Amendments Imminent!
The Supporting Military Families Act of 2009 (SMFA), a part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (HR 2647), will amend the Family and Medical Leave Act … Continue reading
EEOC’s New Posting Requirment for ADA and GINA
The EEOC has issued a new poster, dated November 2009. This new version reflects current federal employment discrimination law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The poster … Continue reading
USSC to Determine if Ledbetter Applies Beyond Pay Discrimination
On September 30, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear Lewis v. City of Chicago (7th Cir. 2008), a case that possesses shades of both the recent Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire … Continue reading
Briscoe v. New Haven: Providing For The Return of Ricci
Discrimination seems intuitively simple, yet it is truly complicated. One reason for discrimination’s complexity is that the law has developed in such a way that acknowledges certain theories of discrimination — and sometimes … Continue reading
Legislation Seeks to Overturn Supreme Court Decision on Burden-shifting in ADEA Disparate Treatment Claims
On October 6, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) and Representative George Miller (D-Cal), introduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (“POWADA”)(S. 1756/H.R. 3721). POWADA purports to … Continue reading
