GNC lawsuit hinges on mask order, bankruptcy
A GNC manager is suing the company, saying he was fired for enforcing a mask order. Bankruptcy laws may protect GNC.
A GNC manager is suing the company, saying he was fired for enforcing a mask order. Bankruptcy laws may protect GNC.
The current controversy over the right to not wear a face mask is just the latest battle over government safety mandates.
The pandemic has changed just about everything, including how companies hire. Increasingly, remote hiring is the norm in the workplace that will largely be remote for the foreseeable future. Remote hiring is uncharted territory for many employers, especially small business owners. While there are advantages…
Employers, who must verify their employees’ eligibility to work, have until Aug. 19 to see, in person, documents that prove those they are hiring are authorized to work in the United States. This is the fourth extension offered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which…
The Tallahassee court hearing had just begun when the obscene interruption happened. In Florida’s capital, the head of the local Republican Party was suing to overturn the County Commission’s requirement that everyone had to wear a mask to battle coronavirus. Because of the pandemic, the…
Michigan Judge Denise Langford Morris works from home these days, shorts and a tank top under her stately robe, double-strand pearls and full makeup on display for the Zoom camera, working long hours to keep the wheels of justice turning amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She…
When health insurance companies, social service providers or the community at large fail low-income families dealing with health issues, medical-legal partnerships can help them navigate the system and, in many cases, get them a resolution. These partnerships embed lawyers within healthcare teams to promote patient…
A Florida lawyer shrouded as the Grim Reaper is delivering a grave message to masses of beachgoers in the Sunshine State about the dark consequences of congregating on the shoreline and avoiding social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hooded attorney, who clutches a soul-snatching…
Black mayors across the country have signed on to a resolution imploring states’ leaders to repeal regulations that prohibit them from enacting local strategies to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. This resolution comes after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp sued Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms…
With the lives of children, their teachers, and their families at stake, it is inevitable that the national controversy about how to reopen schools would end up in the courts. It also seems inevitable that politically contentious Florida, now one of the nation’s more virulent…