CASE STUDY: ARMSTRONG V. BNSF WHISTLEBLOWER CASE
SITUATION Our client’s Plaintiff claimed supervisor crushed knee and ankle in door after disagreement about uniform Further claimed he was threatened with retaliation if he were to file an injury report OUR APPROACH Defense was that the attack never happened and...
EEOC REVISES EMPLOYER REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
On July 14, 2016, the EEOC published its revised proposal to collect W-2 income and hours-worked data as part of its annual Employer Information Reporting ("EEO-1") process. Since 1966, the EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance...
SUPREME COURT RULES THAT ARMY CORPS JURISDICTIONAL DETERMINATIONS UNDER CLEAN WATER ACT CAN BE APPEALED
Background: On May 31, 2016, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Jurisdictional Determinations by the Corps can be appealed under the Administrative Procedure Act as a final agency action, in United States Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc., et al....
NAVIGATING THE LEGAL TRENCHES OF HIRING VETERANS
By: Pam Nehring With more than 100,000 new veteran hires in the past year, American businesses are striving to lower the high unemployment rate of returning veterans. But with the unemployment rate for the most recently returned group of veterans at 10 percent as of...
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN A DERAILMENT
Railroads are a very safe mode of transportation with an excellent track record, but on occasion derailments do occur. Some of these derailments result in spills and releases of molecules which bring them into the environmental regulatory arena. The environmental...
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