The slide down the slippery slope has begun and was signaled by the recent ruling by the Supreme Court that allows profit-earning corporations religious exemptions from provisions of the Affordable Care Act they find offensive to their religious beliefs. But
A recent decision by the Missouri Supreme Court can be considered a victory for Missouri workers. The court ruled on a case that lowers the employee’s needed burden of proof when filing claims for retaliation after making workers’ compensation claims.
On the last day of June, a Supreme Court split decision ruled in the favor of corporations, determining that some for-profit companies will not be required to pick up the tab for certain kinds of contraceptives used by their employees.
A Missouri prison employee who worked for years as the director of the prison laundry spent many of those years working alongside a Missouri death row inmate whose date with the executioner was set for this month. The employee was
A former employee of the Kansas City nonprofit Kauffman Scholars alleges she was forced out of her job due to her high-risk pregnancy that would require time off for frequent prenatal appointments. The woman had worked at the nonprofit for
The United States Supreme Court recently heard the case of Lane v. Franks, 13-483, and is currently pondering whether the plaintiff as an employee is protected by the First Amendment, and whether he and the millions of public employees across
If Missouri’s Governor Jay Nixon signs SB 510 into law, it could make it more problematic for workers who are terminated from their jobs to get unemployment benefits. Under provisions of the bill, the definition of the word “misconduct” will
Recently, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in a 5-2 vote to give more legal protection to those employees who are injured and subsequently terminated from their employment. This expansion of employee rights overturned three decades of legal precedent. Workers no
In 1993, Congress enacted the Family and Medical Leave Act, giving employees who are eligible the right to take up to 26 weeks of job-protected, unpaid leave in a year for certain medical, family and military-associated reasons. Employers may lack
The recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board’s Chicago division that football players at Northwestern University are actually university employees has some far-reaching ramifications for athletes all over the country, including Missouri. Given this clarification of their status, Northwestern
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