Insight on Labor & Employment Developments for Connecticut Businesses
For anyone who has been following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions interpreting wage & hour, discrimination and retaliation claims, yesterday’s decision in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (download here), can hardly come as a surprise.
Indeed, in a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court concluded that to "file" a complaint, an employee need only provide…
The United States Supreme Court today, in an 8-0 decision (Justice Kagan recused herself), ruled that Title VII retaliation provisions include protection to those people who have suffered an adverse employment action and are in the same "zone of interest" as another employee who filed a charge.
What does that mean? Good question.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Kasten v. Saint Gobain Performance Plastics, 09-834 (opinion below from 7th Circuit here).
Various other employment law blogs and authors have already chimed in on the case, including Workplace Prof, Michael Fox, Ross Runkel, and the SCOTUSBlog so I won’t try to…
