by KP Reddy | Jun 13, 2013 | Employment and Labor Law
In the United States, people are protected from discrimination based on their sex, religion, race, national origin — and their genes. In 2008, then-present George Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). Among other things, GINA...
by KP Reddy | Jun 11, 2013 | Employment and Labor Law
We talked earlier about the improvement in unemployment figures in Georgia in February. In March, the global leader in beverage manufacturing, Coca-Cola, announced a round of cutbacks that will affect over 750 people in the United States and Canada. With brands...
by KP Reddy | Jun 6, 2013 | Business Law
In August of last year, a California jury found South Korean multinational electronics company Samsung Group guilty of infringing on several patents owned by Apple, an American multinational electronics company. The upshot was a $1.05 billion dollar damage award to...
by KP Reddy | Jun 4, 2013 | Employment and Labor Law
We talked recently about the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) method of mediation. Another form of ADR is arbitration and it differs from mediation in several ways. A fundamental purpose of ADR methods is providing flexibility to stakeholders in a disagreement....
by KP Reddy | May 30, 2013 | Discrimination
Cecely Rogers worked as a cosmetologist for retailer J.C. Penney at a Las Vegas store for two years. When Ms. Rogers relocated to Georgia, her employer indicated she was eligible for rehire. In June 2010, Ms. Rogers was pregnant and applied for work as a cosmetologist...
