Is your company required to accommodate employee medical marijuana use? If you’re established in Texas, probably not. But a legal trend in the U.S. is growing by the year. One such example is in New Hampshire. On January 14, 2022, the New...
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Excerpted from a Wisconsin Examiner story by Erik Gunn How, when and why can an employer reject a job applicant who has been convicted of domestic violence? Wisconsin Supreme Court justices heard arguments October 15 on that question, in a case...
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Excerpted from a Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP blog by Robin Shea There has been a lot in the news lately about job applicants who include their COVID-19 vaccination status on their resumes, employers who ask applicants for that...
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Excerpted from a Littler Mendelson PC blog by Darren E. Nadel The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently held that the creator of the “Friday the 13th” screenplay could terminate his copyright grant to Horror, Inc. (producer of the...
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Excerpted from a Troutman Pepper blog by Moses M. Tincher and Tracey E. Diamond Q. Have any court rulings upheld the denial of requests for exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine? A. Yes. Coming on the heels of President Joe Biden’s plan to require...
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Excerpted from a JDSupra Blog California employers should review their employment background check procedures in light of recent developments. The California Court of Appeal recently ruled in All of Us or None of Us v. Hamrick that an...
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In Texas, the race to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine is perhaps akin to a motorized grocery cart rounding the aisle at barely two mph. To date, only 38% of its residents have received the shot. Compared to Vermont and Maine, states ranking No. 1 and...
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Excerpted from a Shawe Rosenthal, LLP Blog by Fiona W. Ong The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rejected claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state law, finding that the employer’s statement that its ideal...
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Excerpted from The Crime Report story by Sarah Esther Lageson As COVID caused massive shutdowns of traditional in-person institutions, courts were faced with a dilemma. Facing severe backlogs if the courthouse doors were closed, courts quickly...
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Excerpted from Lexology by Squire Patton Boggs The latest entry in a nearly decade-long dispute between a plaintiff and his former employer and manager, Mattiaccio v. DHA Grp., Inc., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 129464 (D.D.C. July 21, 2020) is an...
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By Danny Davila, Director of FCRA Regulatory Risk and Consumer Compliance Advisor, GroupOne Background Screening Undoubtedly, the last four months have presented difficulties for talent acquisition leaders. Tasks, at one time viewed as routine...
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Excerpted from ABA Banking Journal In a letter to House leadership today, the American Bankers Association expressed its opposition for H.R. 5332. Introduced by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), the Protecting Your Credit Score Act of 2020 is...
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