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Employment Government Health 

Labor Department Rapped on Limits for Workers Getting Virus Leave

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 JOSH RUSSELL
Labor Department, leave, New York, regulation, Trump administration

New York brought a successful challenge to federal guidelines said to unduly restrict paid leave for those out of work due to Covid-19. A federal judge ruled several aspects of the rule invalid Monday.

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Civil Rights Employment National 

JPMorgan Chase to Pay $5M to Settle Dads’ Parental-Leave Case

May 30, 2019May 31, 2019 MATT REYNOLDS
aclu, banks, benefits, Class Action, discrimination, JPMorgan Chase, leave, pregnancy, Settlement, sex

The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a class action brought by male employees who said the bank denied them equal paid parental leave after their children were born.

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Employment 

Health Care

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 BRIEF
leave, Medicine, surgery, termination

A federal judge denied summary judgment to Lafayette General Medical Center over its firing of a Louisiana doctor who requested medical leave for breast cancer surgery, then requested leave again for reconstructive surgery.

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Appeals Business Employment International 

EU Court Settles Spat Over Wages for Part-Time Leave

December 13, 2018December 13, 2018 BARBARA LEONARD
construction, European Court of Justice, Germany, leave, wages

Europe’s highest court rapped a construction company Thursday for relying on a part-time worker’s gross wages, rather than his normal hourly rate, to calculate how much he was owed on annual leave.

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Appeals Employment International 

Workers’ Estates Can Collect on Unused Leave Time, EU Court Rules

November 6, 2018 BARBARA LEONARD
estates, European Court of Justice, Germany, Labor, leave

Two German widows are entitled to allowances in lieu of paid annual leave that their husbands had accrued at work before their deaths, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday.

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Appeals Courts Government International 

Parental Leave Isn’t Work, EU Court Tells Romanian Judge

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 BARBARA LEONARD
European Court of Justice, judges, leave, parental rights, pregnancy, Romania

A Romanian judge failed Thursday to persuade the European Court of Justice that her months-long absence from work on parental leave should have been considered work so that she could also take paid annual leave.

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Employment Law Regional 

Airlines Call Out Massachusetts Sick-Leave Law

April 5, 2018April 6, 2018 JOSH RUSSELL
airlines, Aviation, benefits, leave, Massachusetts

A coalition of airlines seeking an exemption from a state mandate filed a lawsuit claiming Massachusetts’ sick-time law is unconstitutional and contributes to flight delays and cancellations.

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Employment Law 

Paid Sick Leave

February 16, 2018February 20, 2018 BRIEF
Austin, leave, ordinance, Texas

Austin became the first city in Texas to require all non-government employers to provide paid sick leave, after the measure passed 9-2 on Friday morning in the City Council.

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Civil Rights Employment 

EEOC Goes to Bat for Estee Lauder Dads

August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY
children, cosmetics, discrimination, leave, pregnancy

Accusing Estee Lauder of discrimination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the cosmetics giant affords working fathers just a fraction of the leave time it gives new moms.

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Business Employment 

Business Groups Fight Albuquerque on Wage Laws

April 5, 2017February 20, 2018 VICTORIA PRIESKOP
Albuquerque, Chamber of Commerce, Elections, Labor, leave, referendum, wages

Restaurant and real estate groups and New Mexico’s version of the Chamber of Commerce sued Albuquerque on Monday, for raising the city’s minimum wage and putting a paid sick-leave law on this year’s ballot.

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Education Government Politics 

Teachers Fight State for the Right to Get Sick

April 4, 2017February 20, 2018 VICTORIA PRIESKOP
Class Action, leave, New Mexico, teachers

In a class action resounding in politics, a veteran teacher sued New Mexico, claiming it punishes teachers for taking more than three sick days per year, though they earn nine sick days a year under their contracts.

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Appeals Employment 

In Loco Parentis

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 BRIEF
leave, New York, Second Circuit

The Second Circuit revived claims that Municipal Credit Union violated the Family and Medical Leave Act for firing an employee who wanted time off because the man who raised him as a child, his grandfather, was seriously ill.

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