Photo by lpdesigns form PxHere I’m conflicted. There’s this great age discrimination opinion about which I planned to blog today. It involved an awkward moment at a termination meeting, where the supervisor of a 40-year employee allegedly told him, “Well, you’re kind of getting up there in years, you’re at…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Rarely — and by “rarely,” I mean usually — I’ll have an employer client ask me about countersuing an employee that has just sued the company. First, you’re probably just throwing good money after bad. But, I generally don’t debate this with my more…
Image by Ohmydearlife from Pixabay Imagine not only facing a Charge of Discrimination that one of your employees has filed with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission but also enduring an investigation where the EEOC ultimately concludes there is reasonable cause to believe discrimination has occurred. Uggh. What’s next?…
U.S. Government / Public domain As Microsoft deals with a government investigation into its diversity hiring program, the rest of you federal contractors should take note of these new Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFFCP) guidelines addressing the White House “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping.” (You…
Image by 政徳 吉田 from Pixabay Who loves you? Slide deck: A Return to Work from COVID-19: EEO and Other Employment Law Considerations – BOOM! Webinar: Covid-19 claims and lawsuits; Prepare your business today for potential lawsuits tomorrow – Let’s goooooooo! Plus, get 40 credits worth of HR virtual learning…
Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay Yesterday, both Law360 (here) and Bloomberg (here) reported that the U.S. Department of Labor had begun investigating whether Microsoft violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal anti-discrimination law the prohibits race bias, when Microsoft decided to double the number of…
Image by tigerlily713 from Pixabay While I don’t have a ‘Dallas Cowboys’ — how ’bout dem Cowboys! — level of hatred for probationary periods for new employees, I do not like them. The 90-day probationary-employee language that I see from time to time in employee handbooks is a holdover from…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY Finally, we put the wraps on “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. There is so much left to discuss, but, well, I’ve got a thing. So, rather than dig into the Barrett archives myself, I figured I’d share what other bloggers and writers…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY In Tuesday’s installment of “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook, we explored Judge Barrett’s determination that a jury’s $300K national original discrimination award should survive appeal. Today, I have another case for you in which Judge Barrett handled the appeal of a jury…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY Welcome back to “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. I’m devoting five blog posts to some of her most significant employment law decisions so that, maybe, we can read the tea leaves to see how she may rule from the Supreme Court bench…