Image Credit: Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/arcade-games-video-games-154575/) Hey, I can’t make this stuff up. Claire Warner at Bustle.com reports here that game designer Jane Friedhoff released a video game last week that, well, here’s the description from the game designer: Two mall shop-girls find out they’ve been stiffed wages that the men in their department…
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New Jersey’s new governor wastes no time going after equal pay and gender equity issues.
Image Credit: www.publicdomainpictures.net (License: CC0 Public Domain) Well, that sure was fast. [Cue music] On Tuesday, Phil Murphy assumed the office of Governor of the State of New Jersey. My first official act as governor would have been making sure that all of the washrooms in Office of the Governor…
Your company’s generous parental leave benefits could actually trigger a discrimination lawsuit
Just before the Labor Day weekend, I blogged here about an Americans with Disabilities Act complaint filed in federal court by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that should have employers scrutinizing their leave policies and procedures. Today, I’ve got news of another EEOC lawsuit filed in my backyard in the Eastern…
A “too cute” employee, her boss’s ex-Playmate wife, and maybe some sex discrimination
Honestly, I generally try not to resort to clickbait ledes or trending terms like Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, Solar Eclipse, Game of Thrones finale spoilers, and leaked Apple iPhone 8 images, to increase web traffic. That’s beneath a professional ***fart*** blogger like me. But, since you’re here, please form a single-file…
The best way to prepare your workplace now for President Trump’s new Religious Freedom Executive Order
Yeah, that’s basically it. Keep calm and carry on. There was a lot of talk over the past week or so about how the Presidential Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty would create carte blanche for discrimination against LGBTQ and women. (Exhibit A, B, C). Yeah, that didn’t happen. Indeed,…
Hold up! Wait a minute! A federal judge just stayed Philly’s new salary-history law.
It may not have occurred exactly as I’ve depicted above. Although, this accompaniment foreshadows a strong second career in musical direction for the Bloggerking, amirite? Ok, so maybe my GifJif is a complete dramatization of Wednesday’s Order from District Judge Mitchell Goldberg in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Still, big news! Judge Goldberg stayed Philadelphia’s…
EXCLUSIVE(ish)! Philly Chamber sues to block new law banning job interview questions about salary history
Earlier this year, Philadelphia passed a law banning employers from asking about a job applicant’s salary history. In that blog post, I foreshadowed a possible lawsuit from business groups to block the law, which would otherwise take effect on May 23. Early Thursday morning, Philly.com’s Tricia L. Nadolny reported here that the…
Could ‘mansplaining’ create a gender-bias claim? It’s direct evidence of it says one court!
If you’re: (a) new to social media; (b) don’t watch Jeopardy; or (c) haven’t hung out on Jezebel, you may be unfamiliar with what ‘mansplaining’ is. Mansplaining defined. Mansplaining is where a man explains something to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing. In Tucker v. Johnson…
My 2 cents on President-Elect Trump’s impact on HR-compliance in 2017. (Literally, worth 2 cents)
I’ll open this post with a haiku. Because, I feel like we could all use a haiku. President-Elect For HR, what will he do? Not a stinkin’ clue! …and any employment-law wonk who tells you otherwise, well, we saw how the pundits fared predicting the outcome of the presidential election.…
A new SHRM study should have employers reexamining their policies on parental leave
On average, organizations gave mothers 41 paid days of maternity leave, compared with 22 paid days of paternity leave for fathers. That statistic comes from 2016 Paid Leave in the Workplace, a survey recently conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Does this disparity demonstrate discrimination against men? Not necessarily.…