After employment claims ran their course, a stockholder tried a new angle: dressing up workplace harassment as a fiduciary-duty lawsuit. The court wasn’t persuaded. TL;DR: A court dismissed with prejudice a stockholder derivative lawsuit that tried to reframe a director’s and former officer’s workplace harassment as a breach of the
Before the champagne pops and the Slack notifications finally stop, it’s worth pausing to reflect on what actually defined the workplace this year. Not the initiatives. Not the slogans. The refrains. Some of these are healthy habits. Others are the phrases that tend to show up right before
Safety policies should protect workplaces, not produce eight-figure ADA exposure. This case shows how a rigid medical rule, applied without individualized assessment, can turn a routine injury into a litigation disaster. TL;DR: A jury found that an employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and Oregon disability law by enforcing
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Employers often try to manage overtime by adjusting schedules, staffing, or compensation models. What they cannot do is manage overtime by adjusting the “regular rate” in a way that only shows up when overtime does. That distinction mattered here. TL;DR: A federal appeals court affirmed summary judgment for an employee
