• 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North Memorial Health Care has filed a motion for summary judgment in a case in which a nurse alleges the hospital rescinded a job offer due to religious discrimination.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

• posted: Jul. 25, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• employer retaliation

A former sergeant at the Southern Regional Jail near Charleston, West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against the state’s Regional Jail Authority, alleging employer retaliation. The man, Jason Hefner, says he Read More

• posted: May 05, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower retaliation

Miguel Del Toral works as a regulations manager for the Environmental Protection Agency and was assigned to investigate the water issues in Flint, Michigan in early 2015. According to Del Read More

• posted: May 02, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• filing claims

When an employee alleges that he or she faced retaliation after attempting to report misconduct within your organization, there are a number of protections afforded to that person. There are Read More

• posted: Mar. 21, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• overtime pay

Lansafe Appraisal Services Inc., an appraisal subsidiary of Bank of America, recently agreed to pay a $36 million settlement in a class action lawsuit in which the company was accused Read More

• posted: Feb. 25, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• FCA litigation

There has been a growing amount of litigation under the False Claims Act in recent years, with many more cases being brought by current or former employees against their companies. Read More

• posted: Feb. 18, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• attorney-client privilege

The protections available in terms of attorney-client privilege often depend on the type of content found in the communications. Because of this fact, privilege logs almost never play a dispositive Read More

• posted: Jan. 25, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• David Douglas School District

A recent whistleblower lawsuit against the David Douglas School District near Portland, Oregon alleges that its high school was not engaging in proper food safety practices. The suit was filed Read More

• posted: Jan. 11, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Inc.,  KBR,  SEC Rule 21F-17

In April, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) initiated the very first enforcement action regarding employee confidentiality agreements against KBR, Inc., a technology and engineering company based in Houston, Texas. Read More