Remember that Americans with Disabilities Act case involving Walgreens and the $1.39 bag of chips. In that one, the store appeared to really step in it by firing a diabetic who ate a bag of chips from the store without paying for it. The employee claimed that she needed the chips for…
Have you noticed a theme here at the blog this week? I mean, other than the crappy posts. Well, that and the crotch grabbing. It’s been all about religious discrimination. Good ahead, scroll down the page, there they are. And yesterday, the Supreme Court announced that it is going to…
Remember yesterday, when I was talking about religious accommodations, I said, “Treat all religions equally.” That same rule applies to casting out the evil devil of religious discrimination generally. Church! After the jump, from my bloggerdome pulpit, I’m preaching my religion: employment law. All ye harassers, there is still time…
After scoring a touchdown on Monday night, Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah dropped to his knees and prayed. Kinda like this. As Kevin Draper at Deadspin.com reports (here), a tweet from Abdullah’s brother further confirmed that the player’s post-TD celebration was a Muslim prayer. Except the referees responded with…
Ok, technically, he was a “parking services officer.” But, he was working in a police department. And when you work in a police department as an officer, the odds are that you’ll need some weapons training. Well, cue the jump where we learn whether a police department has to accommodate…
The opinion contains the words “fingered,” “genital area,” and “sexual assault,” plus an allegation that the assailant tried to hit the plaintiff with her car in the mall parking lot. But, the court concluded that there was no sexual harassment, because none of these events “affected the conditions of her…
Bending iPhone6’s? Derek Jeter’s last home game in Yankee pinstripes? Attorney General Eric Holder to resign? Bah! The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was the one stealing the headlines yesterday — err, doing something that I decided to be most blogworthy. Details on two historic lawsuits after the jump… *…
The German word is “dumm“ Or, as they say in Germ-lish: Hella-dumm. More after the jump… * * * //www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gZ25MYwWpM (Rammstein on this blog..bucket list: check!) In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Servs., Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that “because of the many facets of human motivation, it would be…
Earlier this year, the EEOC filed a federal lawsuit against CVS in which it claimed that drugstore chain “conditioned the receipt of severance benefits for certain employees on an overly broad severance agreement set forth in five pages of small print.” Specifically, the EEOC took issue with several common provisions…
That ain’t legal, yo. I’ll tell you why after the jump… * * * @Eric_B_Meyer, any thoughts to share on this one? Woman w/cancer diagnosis is fired & the boss thought he was helping http://t.co/980Bl1scjF — MarySchaefer (@MarySchaefer) September 17, 2014 Yeah, Mary, I’ve got some thoughts. Let’s assume that…