Pat Muldowney

Background Check Lawsuits: If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another

By Pat Muldowney on August 6, 2014 Posted in Uncategorized

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on BakerHostetler’s Employment Law Spotlight blog. As we previously have written, employer use of criminal records and background checks with respect to applicants and employees has been the subject of challenge on the grounds that such checks tend to discriminate against African-American, Hispanic, and male applicants. Indeed, on July … Continue Reading

No Return Date, No Problem: Seventh Circuit Reverses FMLA Summary Judgment for Employer

By Pat Muldowney on August 1, 2014 Posted in Uncategorized

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on BakerHostetler’s Employment Law Spotlight blog. On June 24, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that an employee did not forfeit her right to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to care for her seriously ill adult daughter by failing to … Continue Reading