Over at our sister blog, Employment Law Letter, my colleague Sarah Niemiroski and I have a recap of the important new Supreme Court case. No, not the affirmative action one (we’ll get to that in another post) but the one on religious accommodation, Groff v. DeJoy.
The gist of the decision is that employers
In a few weeks, the Connecticut Supreme Court will begin it’s next session. As I looked at the calendar assignment for the first term, what I began to realize is something that’s been gnawing at me for a while — there’s not an employment law case to be found on the docket.
Then I started
Up on Fortune magazine’s column “Practically Speaking” is the following question:
Frank has been with us for more than 20 years. He works in the warehouse and has done a good job for us. I like him. But, to be honest, for the work he performs I could easily replace him someone younger and …
Last week, I talked about how the time spent litigating an employment discrimination case can be a big part of the cost of the defense of such a matter.
That "time" has another consequence as 
well: It increases the amount of attorneys’ fees that an employee has to spend litigating a case.
As a result
Lately, the concept of how much a employment litigation costs has come up time and again — whether in providing budgets to clients, or discussing settlement, or in the context of managing a case. 
And the fact is that for employers, defending an employment matter in state or federal court has gotten very expensive.