By Christopher W. Kelleher, Tracy M. Billows, and Joshua D. Seidman
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Illinois General Assembly will consider the proposed Healthy Workplace Act which, if passed into law, will require most Illinois employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees.
Illinois legislators have caught the paid sick leave bug that has been going around the
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By Erin Dougherty Foley and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a recent Eleventh Circuit opinion, the Court found that the insurance carrier was responsible, under Georgia law, for the harm caused by an intoxicated employee’s vehicle usage. Great American Alliance Ins. Co. v. Anderson, No. 15-12540 (11th Cir., February 8, 2017).
In this case, the Court explained, the
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By Anne S. Bider, Robert A. Fisher, and James M. Hlawek
Seyfarth Synopsis: On February 5, 2017, in M.C.A.D. v. Country Bank for Savings, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (“MCAD”) held that an employer engaged in unlawful disability discrimination when it terminated an employee whose medical leave had ended and who could not provide a definite return to
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