Over the past few years, there has been a movement to restrict employers from inquiring into the salary histories of prospective employees. The rationale for this prohibition is clear: certain jobs and workers have historically been underappreciated and underpaid; consequently, workers in these jobs are anchored to lower starting salaries. If employers can ask about such artificially low and discriminatory…
Posted October 4th, 2018. Lawsuit Alleges Defendants’ Illegal Practices Devastated SW Virginia Communities MARTINSVILLE, Va., October 4, 2018 – The City of Martinsville, Virginia and Henry County, Virginia, represented by Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., and The Cicala Law Firm PLLC today initiated legal action against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) for their role in creating the public…
Did a national employment law firm botch the rollout of changes to its own arbitration program? That’s the claim of a former Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart attorney suing the firm for gender discrimination who is asking a federal judge to keep the case out of arbitration. Dawn Knepper, who worked as a non-equity shareholder in the firm’s Orange…