Legal Updates in Business, Employment and Maritime Law
Good news doesn’t seem to come often for employers in the employment law world. However, just a few days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two split (5-4) decisions favorable to management. Let’s take a brief look.
In Vance v. Ball State University, the Court found that a “supervisor,” for purposes of vicarious liability…
Yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced it received 99,412 private sector workplace discrimination charges during the 2012 fiscal year. In its press release , the EEOC noted that while the number of charges is down slightly from last year, it recovered $365.4 million dollars for employees, the “largest amount of monetary recovery” through its…
Yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that a record number of private sector workplace discrimination charges were filed with the agency in its fiscal year 2010. In its press release, the EEOC noted that 99,922 charges were filed, calling this figure an “unprecedented level” of discrimination charges. The statistics show the EEOC, through…
