News Notes: Employment Cases On Supreme Court Docket

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up several workplace-related cases this year. In one, the court will review a Ninth Circuit ruling regarding the type of evidence a terminated employee can use to prove job discrimination when an employer has both legitimate and illegal reasons for the discharge. Other cases on the court’s docket involve whether an employer can require wage-and-hour lawsuits involving federal law to be heard in federal court (which is generally more advantageous to employers) rather than in state court, and whether a disability plan is required to defer to a treating physician’s findings. We’ll keep you posted.