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Category: Labor & Employment Blog

Sep 29, 2023

Employers May Face Sanctions for Employees’ Failure to Preserve Texts on Personal Phones

By: Kristy K. Singler In Miramontes v. Peraton, Inc., No. 3:21-CV-3019-B, 2023 WL 3855603 at *6 (N.D. Tex. June 6, 2023), a federal district court for the N.D. Texas, Dallas Division, addressed if an employer can be deemed liable for an employee’s failure to preserve business-related texts received on the […]

Aug 16, 2023

Summary Judgment Reversed by Seventh Circuit in ADA Accommodation Case

By: Jessica Jackler  In 2018, the EEOC filed suit against Charter Communications, LLC in a Wisconsin federal court alleging disability discrimination for failing to accommodate an employee. The employee worked at a call center for the defendant-employer. Cataracts in both eyes made his vision blurry and made seeing in the […]

Jan 25, 2023

Federal Trade Commission Proposes Ban on All Noncompetes

By: Jessica Jackler On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would ban employers from imposing noncompetes on their workers. The proposed rule would prohibit employers from entering into noncompete clauses with their workers including independent contractors. It would require employers to […]

Dec 22, 2022

Illinois Private Organizations Can Be Held Liable for Discrimination as Places of Public Accommodations

By: Jessica Jackler On August 19, 2022, the Second District Appellate Court of Illinois in M.U. v. Team Illinois Hockey Club, Inc., et al., 2022 IL App (2d) 210568, held that plaintiff could maintain a cause of action for discrimination against a private organization under the section of the Illinois […]

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