Kaiser Permanente will pay $358,000 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations into allegations that the healthcare consortium unlawfully denied employees religious exemptions from its vaccination policy, the federal agency announced Wednesday.
Slowed case handling at the backlogged National Labor Relations Board is sapping unfair labor practice charges of the leverage they once provided unions, particularly in bargaining disputes and other time-sensitive matters, attorneys said.
The Sixth Circuit reopened a Michigan school superintendent's lawsuit alleging she was subjected to a sham misconduct investigation and involuntarily placed on leave because she's a woman who made unpopular decisions, ruling a trial court applied an improperly high standard when it refused to let her amend her complaint.