By Steve Kardell | Published October 28, 2021 | Posted in Sexual Harassment |
September 1 marked the day on which changes to the Texas Labor Code regarding sexual harassment officially went into effect. The rules affect smaller employers who had been excluded from being officially classified as “employers” in previous iterations of the Texas Labor Code. Here are the key changes employers should be aware of: “Employer” definitions: Read More
Read MoreThe U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination by employers on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity. This was a landmark employment law ruling that finally settles questions about whether members of the LGBTQ community can be considered part of a protected class. Read More
Read MoreArriva Medical, a company that specialists in mail-order diabetic testing services, recently reached an agreement with prosecutors to pay $160 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit. The False Claims Act case was initiated by a whistleblower named Greg Goldman, who worked at a call center in Antioch. Case background Goodman started working in the call Read More
Read MoreThe inspector general’s office at the Department of Defense receives thousands of whistleblower hotline tips every year. Many amount to nothing, but every now and then the department strikes gold with one of these tips. One example is a call that was made in August 2014, which just this summer led to the Department of Read More
Read MoreThe California Labor Commissioner’s Office fined three El Super Grocery Stores in the southern part of the state for failure to comply with COVID-19 leave polices. The fines punished the grocery stores for failing to provide or delaying supplemental paid sick leave and other such benefits to 95 workers across the three stores. The grocery Read More
Read MorePrime Healthcare, its founder Dr. Prem Reddy and a cardiologist based in California settled a whistleblower lawsuit for a total of $37.5 million, which will be paid to the federal government and the state of California. The plaintiff in the lawsuit was Phillips & Cohen LLP, which alleged the healthcare chain illegally paid kickbacks to Read More
Read MoreA jury awarded a former Walmart employee with Down syndrome more than $125 million in a disability discrimination lawsuit. The compensatory and punitive damages in the case will be reduced to $300,000, the maximum allowed under the Americans with Disabilities Act. A Walmart spokesperson portrayed the EEOC’s demands related to the case as “unreasonable.” The Read More
Read MoreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently amended the rules of its program, allowing more leeway for submissions from would-be whistleblowers. Under the new rules, whistleblowers who first failed to comply with some procedures required by the commission can take steps to amend or “perfect” their submission to ensure their eligibility for awards. Here’s what you Read More
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