It’s a busy week in employment law. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court case decided Young v. UPS — a case about pregnancy discrimination. I’ll have more on that case in an upcoming post (in the meantime, check out Jon Hyman’s post on the subject). But in today’s post, my colleague Chris Engler talks about
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When a Employer’s Decisionmaker is Unavailable, What Then?
By Daniel Schwartz on
A new case out of the Second Circuit answers a question that has perplexed employers: How can an employer defend itself from an employment discrimination claim when the person who made the decision becomes “unavailable?”
(“Unavailable” can take many meanings such as, the witness is out of the country, but in many cases it means…