The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Sixth Circuit to make clear that workers alleging age discrimination don't have to prove bias was the sole impetus behind a negative workplace consequence, noting that the circuit's case law is inconsistent.
Workers have responded to employers' arbitration requirements in wage and hour disputes by filing thousands of simultaneous arbitration demands, and now employers are rewriting pacts so that only what are known as batches of those demands proceed at a time, raising questions about efficiency and due process, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores the issue.
The Second Circuit on Tuesday amended a precedential decision that changed the framework for analyzing workers' cases over denied faith-related job accommodations after the ruling drew pushback from the federal government.