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Bugbee & Conkle, LLP congratulates April Renner on her promotion to Staff Hearing Officer for the Industrial Commission. Ms. Renner recently began taking hearings as an SHO in Toledo. There has been no announcement on whether a new District Hearing Officer will...
Hiring new workers will mean expanding what your company is capable of doing, but it will also mean increasing the risk of some kind of interpersonal conflict or future misconduct by that new hire. Workers can make mistakes, break the law, steal from the company or...
The Supreme Court of the United States rendered a 6-3 opinion enforcing the stay, in other words blocking, OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring employers of 100 or more employees to enforce a vaccine or test requirement in its entirety. The Court focused on OSHA’s authority to issue such a mandate. The Court found that the Occupational Health and Safety…
The flurry of vaccine mandate litigation continues. We recently wrote on a federal district court’s preliminary injunction blocking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) mandate across the country. However, a recent subsequent decision by the Fifth Circuit reinstated the CMS vaccine mandate for the majority of the United States. In the opinion, the Fifth Circuit, per curiam, found…
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On November 10, 2021, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. (“Uber”) alleging violations of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, alleges that Uber violated the ADA by failing to modify its wait-time policy. This lawsuit is one of the many ADA Title III lawsuits filed…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”), the Department of Labor (the “DOL”), and the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”) announced a joint commission tasked with enforcing workplace laws relating to retaliation in the workplace. The Memoranda of Understanding (the “MOU”) between the three federal agencies allows all three agencies to share information and investigate charges that violate multiple…
The United States is currently experiencing a labor shortage unlike ever seen before. Simultaneously, the “Great Resignation” continues. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4 million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021 while a record-breaking 10.9 million jobs remained open. These current phenomena lead to employers creating creative strategies to retain workers. However, those creative strategies must…
Bugbee & Conkle, LLP has a full time opening for an associate attorney. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years’ experience and must be licensed to practice in Ohio. The position will involve representation of employers in employment matters in both court and...
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