Employers Left Guessing By 2nd Circ.'s 'Cat's Paw' Ruling
By Matthew Bultman ( September 1, 2016, 8:29 PM EDT) -- The Second Circuit ruled this week that an employer can be held liable for acting on bad information from a low-level employee when firing another worker, a decision attorneys say expands businesses' obligations to conduct thorough investigations before terminations and raises some tricky questions over the so-called cat's paw theory of liability....
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