9th Circuit: District Court Must Consider Employee’s Filing With Labor Department

Mealey's (August 6, 2018, 1:42 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 13 vacated a trial court’s dismissal of an employee’s lawsuit alleging wrongful termination and bias and remanded for the district court to decide whether the employee’s filing of a charge with the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Department of Labor could be considered as constructively filing claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Garabed O. Mirzoian v. Michael N. El-Rahi, et al., No. 18-15367, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 19289)....