Following a tumultuous weekend in Charlottesville, VA, where a white nationalist march turned deadly, it appears as though at least one attendee will return home from the rally to find himself unemployed. “Unite the Right” attendees are getting outed on social media and apparently losing their jobs. Seth Millstein at…
A lesson on why it’s so important to tell it like it is when firing someone. “It’s not working out.” The plaintiff in McMullin v. Evangelical Services for the Aging (opinion here) began his job as CFO in March 2014. He was 63. Hired by the employer’s CEO, the plaintiff…
The rules of the playground apply with equal force at work. Except, no cooties. [For my email subscribers, sorry about the deluge of posts today. We had some technical difficulties with the email feed over the past two days. I apologize. But, you guys get what you pay for.] Yesterday,…
This may not be Magic vs. Bird or Biggie vs. Tupac. Those battles are too close to call. But, if I were to ask you which side of the country, east coast or west coast, would offer greater judicial support for the employment rights of medicinal-marijuana cardholders, you’d say west…
The heat is most definitely on. Google and the myth of free speech at work. So, have you heard the news about the Google employee — well, now ex-Google employee — who authored and posted a diversity (anti-diversity?) memo to the company intranet. Yeah, that didn’t go over so well.…
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter “S.” Back in 2010, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed two religious-accommodation lawsuits against a company called JBS USA, LLC. One was in Nebraska. I’ve blogged about that one before (here). The other was filed in Colorado. And that’s the…
As an employment lawyer nearly 20 years under my belt, I’m fairly jaded. Or maybe, I’m just numb. Either way, I have plenty of stories for a cocktail hour. Like there was that time that I deposed the awkward niece of a plaintiff whose husband wiped the plaintiff’s work laptop…
On the same day that President Donald Trump tweeted that the military should ban transgender people from serving, the U.S. Department of Justice doubled down. That is, in a pleading filed yesterday in a federal appellate court, the United States of America revealed its position that our federal laws that protect…
But, the guy’s been through so much in the past year. Plus, I’m not certain that any of my Millennial readers know what Mad Libs are. As far as I know, they haven’t developed a Mad Libs Snapchat filter and Mad Libs wouldn’t make for a compelling podcast. Anyway, on…
I adored Jon Hyman’s ADA blog post yesterday. So much so that it even began to thaw my icy-cold management-side employment-lawyer heart. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to hire slow and fire fast to get my mojo back.