Labor & Employment Law Update

Iowa: The Iowa Supreme Court recently held that an Iowa dentist who fired his dental assistant because he viewed her as a threat to his marriage did not unlawfully discriminate against her based on her gender. After the dentist’s wife found out that the two had been texting each other […]

Dillard’s Inc., a national retail chain, agreed to pay $2 million and commit to extensive, company-wide injunctive relief to settle a class action disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). At issue was Dillard’s longstanding national policy and practice of requiring all employees to disclose […]

This month, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that an illegal immigrant was protected by the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Act and therefore entitled to recover permanent disability benefits despite his illegal work status. Moyera v. Quality Pork International, 2013 Neb. LEXIS 2 (2013). The plaintiff, Ricardo Moyera, moved to Nebraska from […]

On January 9, 2013, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Young v. UPS in which it considered whether UPS’s “facially neutral” light duty policy violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). Despite arguments from Young and the ACLU (which submitted an amicus brief in support of Young) […]

On December 17, 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) adopted a Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) that (1) establishes its priorities for the next four fiscal years and (2) integrates all components of the EEOC’s private, public, and federal sector enforcement. The SEP was adopted after a public comment period […]