The law works in mysterious ways. (Cue the U2 song.)
Some years seem to get dominated by a particular type of issue, even though the law has been around for years.
This year, it seems as though issues of religion and the workplace are taking center stage.
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard
In the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case, holding that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act provides protection to closely held corporations to refuse, for religious reasons, to provide birth control methods and services to employees under the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, the issue of accommodating an employee’s
Over the past month, after the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, much has been made in the press about how it is unprecedented for the court to consider a company’s religious beliefs in making its decisions.
The issue of taking into account a corporation’s religious belief in the workplace has been also catapulted to
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning came out with two controversial decisions that will impact employers in Connecticut.
The first one, Harris v. Quinn, dealt with whether non-union public employees could be forced to pay union dues. The court issued a relatively narrow holding, ruling that “partial” public employees could not be required to