Private employers should make sure employees don’t feel coerced into volunteering, and nonprofit organizations should be prepared to pay employees if their volunteer services for the same organization align with their work duties, attorneys said in light of new U.S. Department of Labor guidance. Here, Law360 explores employer considerations for volunteer work.
A D.C. Circuit judge recently expressed frustration with what he called a "rising trend" in which courts discount evidence of workplace harassment when the conduct isn't directed at the employee who filed suit, spotlighting a legal drift attorneys agree is out of step with case law.
A New York federal judge granted Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. a new trial in a lawsuit by an employee who said he was fired for reporting what he alleged was pro-Indian hiring bias, finding that keeping an $8.4 million verdict would be a "miscarriage of justice."