• posted: Mar. 15, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Company Culture,  safer workplace environment

The last year has seen countless powerful media and entertainment figures fall out of the limelight because of sexual harassment allegations. The #metoo conversation has made it necessary for employers Read More

• posted: Mar. 12, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Banning NDAs,  Harm Women

Throughout 2017, we saw victims of sexual harassment become more empowered than ever before to come forward and tell their stories. But while many Americans begin to speak out and Read More

• posted: Mar. 05, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Facebook,  harassment,  best practices for whistleblower hotline reporting

In December, Facebook publicly released its internal company policy on harassment in the hopes that other companies would be able to learn from them. The idea, according to two executives Read More

• posted: Feb. 05, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• California Law,  Equal pay,  Workers compensation

Google is the most recent of a series of large companies to face class action lawsuits from women who allege they do not receive equal pay. This lawsuit comes at Read More

• posted: Feb. 01, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority,  securities regulator,  Unit Investment Trust

According to a recent announcement, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has penalized Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC approximately $13 million for failure to supervise its salespeople’s short-term trades of Read More

• posted: Jan. 29, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• SkyWest Airlines

A U.S. District Court recently awarded $2.45 million in damages to John Hayes, a former employee of SkyWest Airlines, in a wrongful termination lawsuit. In the case, Hayes alleged the Read More

• posted: Jan. 11, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Lawson's case,  whistleblowing protection,  whistleblowing retaliation

A former executive for Fidelity Investments has sued the mutual funds company, claiming it retaliated against her after she blew the whistle on potential fraud to investors. The whistleblower, Jackie Hosang Read More

• posted: Sep. 14, 2017
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower lawsuit,  discrimination in the workplace,  Racial discrimination

A former executive at Indian software company Infosys accused the company of racial discrimination in its hiring and promotion practices, saying the company favors Indian employees over people of other Read More

• posted: Jul. 10, 2017
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• California Whistleblower Protection Act

A former San Francisco prosecutor will receive a $2 million award after a jury found that her employer retaliated against her for investigating corruption within city government. Jurors agreed with Joanne Read More

• posted: Jul. 06, 2017
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,  religious discrimination,  Title VII

Minnesota-based North Memorial Health Care has filed a motion for summary judgment in a case in which a nurse alleges the hospital rescinded a job offer due to religious discrimination. According Read More

• posted: Apr. 06, 2017
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• wrongful termination

Infosys Ltd., the second-largest provider of software services in India, announced its general counsel and chief compliance officer, David Kennedy, was leaving the company effective December 31. The announcement was Read More

• posted: Nov. 10, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• ADA Reasonable Accommodation Request

Through the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), most employers in the United States are required to provide protected and unpaid leave for certain medical and family reasons, such as the Read More

• posted: Oct. 27, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• EEO

An openly gay employee of the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) in Orland Park, Illinois, has filed a whistleblower complaint against the agency, stating that his superiors and Read More

• posted: Sep. 26, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• employee whistleblower rights

Business leaders across a wide range of industries are criticizing a new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that “shames” employers who have allegedly violated their workers’ whistleblower rights. The Read More

• posted: Sep. 22, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Texas DADS

The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) wants the state Supreme Court to disallow a former employee to bring a lawsuit against the agency for failing to accommodate Read More

• posted: Aug. 22, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Roger Ailes

Attorney Steve Kardell has been was cited in a recent Wall Street Journal article covering the recent issues at Fox News related to the ouster of Chairman and CEO Roger Read More