Tuesday, May 1, 2018
- Seventh Circuit: Disparate impact provision in the Age Discrimination in employment Act, § 623(a)(2), protects outside job applicants in addition to current employees
- Maine Supreme Judicial Court: Comments due May 8th on a package of amendments to Maine Rules of Civil Procedure that would require represented parties to serve pleadings and other papers electronically upon one another or pursuant to Rule 5(b)(1) following service of the summons and complaint under Rule 4
- US District Court ME: In granting summary judgment on state and federal unpaid overtime claims for plaintiffs who worked in homes for people with disabilities seven days on followed by seven days off, court held that employer failed to establish that it fit within either of the sleep time exceptions and must be held to the general rule that sleep time is compensable
- EEOC: Suit filed by EEOC against Walmart under Americans with Disabilities Act for allegedly failing to offer employee whose disability prevented her from performing her sales associate job in Augusta store one of two available fitting room associate positions in Waterville store for which she was qualified, where Walmart’s policy was to only search for open positions in the store in which an employee had been working
- EEOC: Latest quarterly Digest of EEOC Law contains summaries of noteworthy decisions issued by EEOC, including cases involving attorneys’ fees, class complaints, compensatory damages, complaint processing, dismissals, findings on the merits, mixed motive, remedies, sanctions, settlement agreements, stating a claim, summary judgment, and timeliness; as well as an article that recommends ways to prevent workplace harassment
- MHRC: April 23rd meeting minutes reflect that the Commission has 682 cases pending and the average age of cases in the agency is 276 days
- MHRC: May 7th free employment seminar in Augusta will address topics of interest to veterans and service members, including discrimination made unlawful by the Maine Human Rights Act, disability, service animals, and reasonable accommodation