David Shankbone [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons“Hold my drink, Harvey Weinstein. I generated the most #MeToo tweets in a single day; 800,000 of them!” That’s something that former CBS CEO Les Moonves never actually said. Although, it’s true that Mr. Moonves set that infamous record on September 9, 2018. Since…
Font Awesome Free 5.2.0 by @fontawesome – https://fontawesome.com [CC BY 4.0]Let’s do something a little different today. I’m giving my typing fingers (and your reading eyes) a little extra R&R. Last week I hung out with my HR friend Ira Wolfe and his co-host, Keith Campagna, to discuss a variety…
Image Credit: Google Street View I’ve been doing this employment law thing for many years now. It’s gotten to the point where little surprises me anymore. Yeah, about that. On Monday, Jon Hyman blogged about this recent federal court opinion at the Ohio Employer Law Blog in a post entitled, “The 1st nominee…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com Read on to see how your business can avoid being part of this exclusive club. Two employers; over five million dollars. Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced (here) that it had recovered $1.75M from a California employer that it had accused of systemic discrimination…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/artificial-intelligence-brain-think-3382507/) Wait, what? Last week, I participated in a Pennsylvania Bar Institute Continuing Legal Education program entitled, “Law’s New ABC’s: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency.” During that conference, I led panel discussions on how human resources can deploy artificial intelligence and the legal implications of paying employees…
Image Credit: Publicdomanpictures.net (https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=6968&picture=sticks-n-stones) Meet “John” the firefighter. According to this federal court opinion, John (not his real name) is a Christian and holds various moral opinions; he also wears a cross and says grace before meals. And, apparently, there was some friction between John and his co-workers. Here’s how the…
Image Credit: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=124918&picture=bulldozer-tractor-steps I’m going to start this by saying that I’m not a big fan of progressive discipline. (More on that in a bit.) But, pick up a random employee handbook, and more often than not, it’s in there. For what it’s worth, when followed, progressive discipline does foster equal…
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…
By National Aeronautics and Space Administration – https://www.nasa.gov/sites/all/themes/custom/nasatwo/images/nasa-logo.svg, used on https://www.nasa.gov/ Former: Converted from Encapsulated PostScript at http://grcpublishing.grc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/Insig-cl.eps, Public Domain, Link Yes, even NASA gets sued for discrimination from time to time. Here is your proof. It’s a case about a really smart person who applied for a few positions…
Image Credit: PublicDomainPictures.net (https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=80073&picture=wait-what-blocky-text) Remember the employer that got socked with a six-figure jury award when it refused to allow a cashier to consume two bottles of orange juice from the store’s refrigerator to avoid slipping into diabetic shock? Welp, that employer apparently has not yet mastered the Americans with…