2 of my favorite topics in one!
It seems that the 9th Circuit was very busy in the month of December. On December 11, 2007, the 3 judge panel “tweaked its decision upholding the certification of the largest Title VII plaintiff class in U.S. history. The class initially consisted of approximately 1.5 million female current [...]
I know, I know, another link from SFGate. I promise, I do read other publications but this is my hometown newspaper and since I read it everyday, I find lots about the 9th Circuit here.
That being said, the above mentioned court has determined that Judge Thelton Henderson had used the wrong standard in deciding [...]
I stumbled across this today. Evidently, President Bush is expected to sign a bill that enables the first expansion to the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) since 1993. This expansion will allow up to 26 weeks for family members to care for military personnel who were wounded in the course of duty. Per [...]
A Federal Court Judge in our beloved 9th Circuit has ruled that the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance is in direct conflict with a 1974 law that prohibits governments from regulating employee benefits, meaning that the city can no longer charge employer based fees toward the health care plan. The San Francisco City [...]
Again, not California, but this case has the power to help reconsider federal discrimination laws.
Essentially a job applicant, while interviewing as a man, was offered a position with the Library of Congress as a Terrorism Research Analyst. Once the applicant disclosed that she was undertaking steps to change gender and would be [...]
Now if this doesn’t beat all. An employee in Iowa terminated for posting a comic strip on a community bulletin board. Granted, this has nothing to do with California, but I thought the whole thing was ridiculous and just had to share.
I hereby present the “Dilbert” in question:
I’ll leave it to you [...]
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