Tami Luhby reports: The corporate rush to cover employees’ abortion-related travel expenses following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow states to ban or severely restrict abortion has sparked a big question: Will the boss find out if you use the benefit? The answer is typically no, especially if the reimbursement is handled by your company’s health insurance plan, benefits…
Category: Workplace
Ontario hospital stands by COVID vaccine policy as fired staffers file lawsuits seeking $700K
Jennifer Bieman reports: Two former London Health Sciences Centre administration staffers who say they were fired last fall for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are suing the hospital in separate wrongful dismissal lawsuits seeking a combined $700,000 in damages. Former LHSC employees Angela Simpson and Laura Goncalves have filed statements of claim in Ontario’s Superior Court…
SCOTUS Leak investigation Sparks Privacy Concerns, Advice to Lawyer Up
Brad Kutner reports: Lawyers and former clerks are opening up about the options available for, and the consequences associated with, cooperating with the investigation into the April leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would topple the constitutional right to abortion. […] A request for comment on the U.S. Supreme Court’s employment cell…
California Assembly Proposes Data Privacy Law for Workers
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog: Assembly Bill 1651, or the Workplace Technology Accountability Act, a new bill proposed by California Assembly Member Ash Kalra, would regulate employers and their vendors regarding the use of employee data. Under the bill, data is defined as “any information that identifies,…