"I think what employers would really like from the Legislature is more certainty. Not making laws that, to figure out what it means, you have to go to litigation," David A. Rapuano, a partner with Archer & Greiner, said. "To me, and to my clients, it is bad policy to create laws that cannot be figured out unless a court [is involved]."
Together, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act place new requirements on employers with 15 or more employees to accommodate workers, including many exempt employees.
"We reject the Biden administration's bizarre interpretation, and we expect courts will as well," read the anti-abortion states letter authored by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. "Courts do not lightly ignore the plain text of statutes. And the Supreme Court has been openly aversive to other attempts by the Biden administration to press antitextual arguments."
A Utah judge instructed an appeals board to reconsider the claim of an employee who quit his job over his employer's alleged failure to adhere to COVID safety protocols.
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