Cases — February 1st through 7th

admin - February 5, 2015 - Disability, Just Cause, Retaliation, Tenth Circuit, Unemployment Compensation, Utah Supreme Court

Workers Compensation
Provo City v. Utah Labor Commission & Duane Serrano (Utah, February 6, 2015) (affirming respondent’s permanent total disability)

Tarpley v. Colvin (10th Cir., February 4, 2015) (affirming denial of disability benefits)

Discrimination and Retaliation
Bejar v. McDonald (10th Cir., February 3, 2015) (“a mere inconvenience or an alteration of job responsibilities [is not] an adverse employment action.”)

Unemployment Appeals
Sawyer v. Department of Workforce Services (Utah, February 6, 2015) (establishing, for purposes of quitting for good cause, the proper standard of review for determining whether a reasonably prudent employee would quit in order to avoid a potential termination)