Saturday, January 6, 2018

Third Circuit: In holding that employee who was fired by hospital for refusing to be inoculated against the flu did not state a claim for religious discrimination under Title VII, where the employee did not belong to any religious organization but held strong personal beliefs opposing the flu vaccine, the court defined religion as follows: “First, a religion addresses fundamental and ultimate questions having to do with deep and imponderable matters. Second, a religion is comprehensive in nature; it consists of a belief- system as opposed to an isolated teaching. Third, a religion often can be recognized by the presence of certain formal and external signs.”
Maine Legislature: LD 1768 would make several changes to the Maine Substance Abuse Testing law, including replacing the “probable cause” prerequisite for an employer to require an employee to submit to a substance abuse test with an “impairment detection” standard, and broadening the circumstances under which employers may conduct random or arbitrary substance abuse testing of employees
US DOL: Press release states that going forward the Wage and Hour Division will update its enforcement policies to align with recent case law that rejected its six-part test for determining whether interns and students are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act
MHRC: January 8th Commission Meeting Agenda and Consent Agenda posted

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