Back in September, 2013, I blogged here about a NY jury finding that a black plaintiff called the n-word — by her black boss — had been subjected to race discrimination. Actually, her boss called her the n-word eight times! “Well, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that’s 103 fewer…
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know much about Scientology. Why, my Scientology acumen could fill a thimble. Basically, I know that Tom Cruise is a Scientologist and Katie Holmes was a Scientologist; but, not anymore. Anything else comes from my favorite gossip blog, The Superficial,…
Ah, it was a good year at the ole Handbook. Total web traffic was up over fifty percent from 2012. And average time per visit was down over 20%, which is fine by me. I pad my important stats, while discouraging loitering. And we got our first visitor from Uzbekistan.…
Over the Summer, I reported here that about companion Pennsylvania bills introduced in the House and Senate that would outlaw both sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the workplace. Each bill had bipartisan support, but it was unclear how Governor Corbett (R) would act if a bill was placed…
Let’s talk (alleged) big butts and discrimination after the jump… (Sir Mix-a-Lot is gonna be feelin’ this post). * * * Hey yo! Find me another employment-law blogger spinning Sir Mix-a-Lot. Yeah, that’s what I thought. So, show me some love, take a few seconds, and vote for The Employer Handbook…
That’s right folks. It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” Yesterday, I read this opinion about a white man who claimed that he lost out on a middle school boys…
You’ve got an employee with performance issues. Big time! Initially, rather than fire her, you make fun of her behind her back put her on a series of performance improvement plans. But, that doesn’t result in — oh, what’s the word I’m looking for? — improvement. So, you fire…
An employee-plaintiff who claims that she was discriminated against under the Americans with Disabilities Act due to her pregnancy alone, will lose her ADA claim 10 times out of 10. This is because pregnancy is not a disability under the ADA. But what if that same employee plaintiff with an…
Generally speaking, those who wait five years to complain about perceived sexual harassment in the workplace, don’t win lawsuits if they are eventually fired. But what happens when the complaint takes the form of a status update on Facebook? Does that offer the employee extra protection? Find out after the…
Play some Skynyrd, man! (Just pretend the song is about reckless indulgences in the workplace, rather than drugs and needles and such, k?) Well, this is a new one for me. A woman claimed that she was employed as a leasing manager for four days. And during those four days,…