November 05, 2024
A home heating oil company fielded tough questions at the First Circuit on Tuesday as the company defended its termination of a service technician with a bad knee, with one judge pressing the company's attorney on why the organization hadn't reassigned the worker instead of letting him go.
October 31, 2024
The Fourth Circuit will hear from a nurse who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination while the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will venture to the First, Tenth and Eleventh circuits to back up arguments made in amicus briefs. Here are four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.
August 14, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission threw its weight behind a former heating and air conditioning technician's suit claiming he was fired for requesting a modified schedule because of a knee injury, telling the First Circuit a lower court used outdated standards to dismiss it.