Image Credit: http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/14339 A few decades ago, some men sued Hooters Restaurant, claiming that the purveyor of chicken wings, burgers, beer, and shapely female servers in tight, revealing outfits, was discriminating against males who were denied employment as servers. That case resolved in 1997, with Hooters serving up a multi-million…
sailko [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsWell, maybe not you and yours. But, read on just in case. Over the weekend, I read this federal court opinion involving a woman’s claims that her former employer violated both the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of…
Image Credit: Tommy Boy (screenshot from Vimeo.com) Last week, I wavered about whether to include a line from Tommy Boy in a brief that I was drafting: “I tell ya what. If you don’t know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I’ll have Tommy Boy here come…
United States Senate [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsYep, this plan packs a punch. So, let’s head over to Ms. Harris’s campaign website to see what this is all about. It says here that companies will be required to prove that they’re not paying women less than men for work of…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay I live and work about 100 miles northeast of Baltimore, MD. I don’t have my finger on the pulse of everything that’s going on in the Charm City. However, I do know that the City’s 50th mayor, Catherine Pugh, had a bad run there…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/money-finance-business-success-2696238/) Today is Equal Pay Day. What is Equal Pay Day? The National Committee on Pay Equity takes credit for originating Equal Pay Day in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages. Do women as a group make less than…
By [1] – originally posted to Flickr as USWNT Celebrates Uploaded using F2ComButton, CC BY 2.0, LinkFriday was International Women’s Day. It was also the day that 28 members of the United States women’s soccer team filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) in federal court alleging violations of the Equal Pay…
J.s.ross [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia CommonsYou can address your ‘thank you’ note to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. What is the EEO-1? Since 1966, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has required that employers with one hundred or more employees file with the EEOC…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/softball-baseball-ball-sport-game-372979/) We’re talkin’ softball. [cue music] Recently, I read about an EEOC settlement with a Maryland school that forked over $41,000 to settle a gender-discrimination claim. Here’s more from the EEOC’s press release: According to the suit, the [] School hired a male as head softball coach…
By Ludwigs2 – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link I don’t remember much from law school. “Meyer, quick! Name three of ’em!” Ok. I rocked a bad-ass Nokia 8290. Dan’s Cafe in Adams Morgan was one of my go-to’s. In Employment Law, the professor taught us that pay-disparity claims generally…