462 U.S. 393 (1983) Cited 652 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding that the employer bears the burden of negating causation in a mixed-motive discrimination case, noting "[i]t is fair that [the employer] bear the risk that the influence of legal and illegal motives cannot be separated."
420 U.S. 251 (1975) Cited 434 times 64 Legal Analyses
Holding that an employer commits an unfair labor practice by compelling an employee to attend an investigatory meeting that could lead to discipline without allowing the employee to bring a union witness
Interpreting similar language in 29 C.F.R. § 101.10 as meaning "that the Board's procedures are to be controlled by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as far as practicable" (cleaned up)
Holding that if the General Counsel proves anti-union animus by a preponderance of the evidence, "the employer can then avoid a finding of an unfair labor practice if it can show that it would have taken the action regardless of the employee's union activities"
In Lennox, we held that an employee had sufficiently invoked his Weingarten right when the supervisor to whom the request was made was present at the interview, even though the company official who conducted the interview was unaware of the request and the supervisor to whom the request was made did not know what the full scope of the interview would be.