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Florida Public Employee Relations Commission: Union Representative Can’t Be Muzzled During Investigation

Tue March 7, 2023 Public Servant Associations

Conor Flynn, Senior Litigation Attorney, Donnelly + Gross     A recent order from Florida’s Public Employee Relations Commission (PERC) states that public employers commit an unfair labor practice and violate Florida law when they refuse to allow a public employee’s representative to question the employee on the record during […]

Eleventh Circuit in Owens: a roadmap for best practices concerning disability accommodation requests

Mon December 12, 2022 Publications

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently answered the following question: ‘What information does a disabled employee need to provide her employer to trigger the employer’s duty to accommodate her disability?’ While the case decided the question under the Rehabilitation Act, the Court’s decision is also important to employers covered […]

The Legal State of Race: Looking Ahead to 2023

Tue November 8, 2022 News

The U.S. Supreme Court is, once again, widely expected to strike overturn longstanding precedent and do away with race-conscious admissions policies in higher education. In 1978 (UC Regents v. Bakke), 2003 (Grutter v. Bollinger), and 2016 (Fisher v. UT Austin), the Court affirmed universities’ right to consider applicants’ race as […]