Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives

Join our Hunton Labor and Employment team as they discuss how to plan and defend drug testing policies in the current legal landscape. 

Congratulations to Hunton’s Labor & Employment Team and individual attorneys for their Legal 500 US 2025 rankings!

In Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida, the U.S. Supreme Court held a disabled former employee who neither “holds” nor “desires” a job is not a “qualified individual” under the ADA and, thus, cannot sue for disability discrimination following her employer’s revocation of retiree health benefits. 

Congratulations to Hunton’s Labor and Employment, Immigration, and OSHA Practices, along with our 12 attorneys for their Chambers USA 2025 rankings!

On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services that plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are not required to meet a heightened evidentiary standard based on their majority-group status.

In a case of first impression, Bradsbery v. Vicar Operating, Inc., the California Court of Appeal held that a prospective, written waiver of meal periods for work shifts between five and six hours is enforceable.

Maryland has amended its parental leave law to clarify that, effective October 1, 2025, employers covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) are exempt from the Maryland Parental Leave Act (“MPLA”).

One of the most common employment law issues that human resources professionals and in-house counsel encounter is employee requests for accommodations and the perceived abuse by employees of the interactive process.  Join our Employment team for a complimentary CLE webinar on current leave laws.

Earlier this month, the Governor of the State of New York, Kathy Hochul, approved amendments that establish the amount of damages recoverable for weekly pay violations. The amendments provide for a fraction of the damages that plaintiffs have been seeking for such violations.

On May 5, 2025, an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) for the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) ruled that retailer Costco Wholesale Corp. (“Costco”) violated the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or the “Act”) when it asked employees involved in an internal investigation regarding sexual harassment allegations to sign a confidentiality agreement prohibiting them from discussing details concerning the investigation.