Actually, I’m not talking about the drink. No, the case I’m addressing today has actual sex on the beach. And allegations of sexual harassment and disparate treatment. It involves an outside sales representative — let’s call her “Plaintiff” — and the son of the company President, during a boat trip in Mallorca,…
Blogger Claus — that’s me, I’m the non-denominational, workplace-friendly Blogger Claus — wants to reward his good readers with some holiday cheer. (The bad readers get two EEOC Charges and will be fed to Krampus). So, here’s what I have. It’s your choice of any one of the following (as…
I’ll go ahead and file this one under “Wa Wa Waaah!”
I know y’all are waiting with baited breath — wait, hold do you bait breath? Like a putting a worm on a fishing line or something? ***Googles*** Right, as I was saying, I know y’all are waiting with bated breath for me to publish all of those reader-submitted holiday-party “yowzas”…
Inspired by a quality discussion in my Facebook feed today, I’m thinking that some of you HR-compliance geeks probably have some good holiday party stories to share with me. That’s right, for once, I’m going to live vicariously through you. So, here are the rules — we lawyers always have…
Like requesting swiss cheese on your cheesesteak — way to go John Kerry — pretty soon, asking about a candidate’s salary history will be verboten too. {cue music – soft / hard} Last week, Philadelphia City Council read and passed this bill, which will ban employers from inquiring about salary history, and…
When defending against a woman’s sexual harassment claim, I’ve found that “she was asking for it” is generally a bad defense. So bad, in fact, that you may just want to whip out the old checkbook instead. Another crappy one, apparently, is trying to convince a judge that an industrial…
Yesterday, I read this story from David Moye on Huffington Post about a young Jewish girl’s birthday party at which the guests — friends of the birthday girl — were allowed to frost cupcakes. Well, it seems that two of the party guests decided that it would be funny to…
Like one-man bands. Or, retaliation lawsuits, for example. Ms. Nuness is our plaintiff in this case. Ms. Nuness alleges that she is a female African-American who worked for her former employer for about 14 months. During her employment, the plaintiff worked alongside a male Caucasian co-worker who had been counseled, from…
The good news for this employee is that her viral Facebook post earned her an award. The bad news is that the “award” was “Racist of the Week.” The ugly news — well, other than the post itself — was that the employee lost her job and likely impaired her ability to…