A whistleblower case filed by a doctor at the Augusta State Medical Prison system last year is leading to increased scrutiny of the healthcare provided to prisoners of the state system as well as the number of serious medical malpractice…
One of the largest producers of Georgia’s Vidalia onions is being ordered to pay $1.4 million in damages to hundreds of its workers for unpaid overtime. A federal court found that Bland Farms Production and Packing failed to pay overtime…
A deaf basketball referee is suing the Georgia high school athletics’ association, claiming that they discriminated against him on the basis of his disability. Donald Jacobs, a DeKalb school custodian, was a former player for the Georgia School for the…
On December 4th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case Biestek v. Berryhill, which asks the court to decide whether an administrative law judge hearing a Social Security disability appeal may rely on the testimony of a vocational expert…
A former firefighter for Marietta, Georgia is suing the city’s fire department and the city itself for gender discrimination and favoritism. Margaret Richardson filed the lawsuit earlier this year against the former Fire Chief Jackie Gibbs, who retired in December…
The backlog of whistleblower and prohibited personnel practice (PPP) cases more than doubled at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel between 2011 and 2016, with the number of backlogged cases expected to increase with the 2017 and 2018 reports. In…
Hostile Work Environment Claim Advances Based on Racial Slurs The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the dismissal of a plaintiff’s case and allowed a claim of a hostile work environment to continue through the courts. Brenda Smelter was…
The Georgia Department of Corrections paid out $429,005 in back wages to 1,257 correction officers after the federal government uncovered overtime violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at more than forty corrections facilities across the state. The federal…
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) currently has a backlog of 1,500 cases pending, as the panel potentially goes from one member to zero in the coming months. The acting chairman of the MSPB has stated that it will take…
The United States Justice Department ruled against a Georgia-based poultry company for employment discrimination against its noncitizen employees. According to federal attorneys, Mar-Jac Poultry violated federal employment discrimination laws when it demanded that all noncitizen employees of its business produce…
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