Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Technically, they settled for $1.15M. But, that won’t stop me from playing some ‘Lil Wayne. Many of you have good taste in employment law blogs, my ramblings and typos notwithstanding. That’s because you also read Jon Hyman’s Ohio Employer Law Blog. Jon’s blog is a…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e4c9a4e089f7a2b888b45b4) And I want to try “The Perfect Bite” that Binging With Babish cooked up last week on his YouTube channel. Here is what his duck carbonara looked like. But, Governor Murphy’s proposed changes to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) aren’t nearly as aspirational. And if…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e41ee23089f7ab90a8b4591) It was all a dream. I used to read Word Up! magazine. Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine. I guess Notorious B.I.G. wasn’t exactly rapping about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requirement for employers with one hundred or more employees to file with the…
Image by Jim Gade from Pixabay Nearly three years ago to the day, I provided 55,000 reasons to allow your pregnant employees to be exposed to toxic chemicals at work. Wait, what? If a pregnant woman needs to use poisonous lacquer thinners… The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued…
Photo by Black ice from Pexels It’s one of the most common questions that I get from clients and readers. With so many employment laws out there, it’s not easy to keep track of what those laws say — let alone which ones you may have to follow. That’s why…
By National Museum of American History – Image by Godot13, Public Domain, Link Workplace accommodations can be easy. For example, when an employee with carpal tunnel syndrome requests an ergonomic keyboard to perform his job, and his job involves a lot of typing, you get him the keyboard. Or maybe…
https://www.needpix.com/photo/180045/question-worry-wonder-unsure-confused-uncertain-asking-wondering-uncertainty Beats me. (Still, it seems like an excellent excuse to get back to basics and explain how courts analyze discrimination claims). But, first, let’s cue the music as we talk about… Those Wild School Days. The plaintiff in today’s case was an assistant professor of poetry at a college…
By U.S. Government – Extracted from PDF file here., Public Domain, Link I’m sorry if you were expecting wild stories of employee shenanigans today. Yesterday, I asked for your stories, and I got nothin’! Y’all must work in the most compliant workplaces in America. Speaking of which… Last Friday, the…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Let’s cue the music. Double trouble. In May 2019, a man from Michigan sued his employer in federal court alleging that the company had created a hostile work environment based on race by discriminating against and harassing customers and allowing customers to harass non-white…
Image by diapicard from Pixabay In 2020, the Americans with Disabilities Act turns 30. President George H.W. Bush signed it into law in 1990 to ensure civil rights for individuals with disabilities. Chia-Yi Hou at The Hill published a nice 30-year ADA recap here. The ADA is much more than…