By Richiek – Own work CC BY-SA 3.0, Link On December 13, 2020, the New York Mets announced that the club had named Jared Porter the team’s 14th General Manager in franchise history. Porter agreed to a four-year contract. In just over a month since then, the team had made…
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Can your business dodge an EEOC discrimination claim by closing and opening under a new name?
Image by GraphicMama-team from Pixabay If you got to this page via Google, please don’t call or email me. 😉 Because I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t work like the title of this blog post. But, hey, I’ve been wrong before. Once. Let’s see if a Michigan restaurant had any…
Free COVID-19 claims and lawsuits webinar? And a slide deck on EEO considerations too? I got you, fam!
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…
Has Judge Amy Coney Barrett ever handled an appeal involving the EEOC? You bet she has!
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…
COVID-19 doesn’t prevent claims of sexual harassment. Just ask a certain hockey mascot. 🏒🦁
Santeri Viinamäki / CC BY-SA We’re in the middle of a pandemic. While telework and ‘social distancing’ don’t eliminate the possibility of a sexual harassment claim, let’s face it, we’re not exactly in the same #MeToo world as we were last year. But that doesn’t mean that businesses can take…
There’s retaliation, and then there’s locking the complainant in a walk-in freezer. (Allegedly)
Image Credit https://www.jbcharleston.jb.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2000273522/ That’s cold. Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced here that it has settled a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed against a fast-food chain. The facts are indeed chilling. According to the EEOC’s suit, a 22-year-old male manager at the store was “forced to…
As we approach the holiday season, remember to protect your seasonal workers
Our first full day of London sightseeing is in the books. Not only did I leave and return home to our VRBO with four children — #DadOfTheYear — but I also found a suitable protector for the many barrels of local whiskey that I’m gate-checking at Heathrow when I return…
PODCAST: How to create a sexual harassment policy
Wolfmann [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia CommonsWe’re two-thirds of the way through 2019, and companies continue to allocate significant portions of their legal budgets to addressing #MeToo and issues relating to sexual harassment in the workplace. This isn’t going away any time soon. Six states and one locality (NYC) have…
Harassment training entirely via text message. Could this actually work?
Image by fajar budiman from Pixabay Yesterday, I received an unsolicited email from a company called Pluto. Pluto claims to offer a text message harassment training course that helps startups get compliant in less than 5 minutes a day. So, I headed over to the Pluto website to learn more. Here…
Twenty years later, a creepy “casting couch”-type scene from Toy Story 2 hasn’t aged well.
Youtube.com Screen Capture You can watch it here on YouTube. But, if you purchase Toy Story 2, you’ll no longer find the “blooper reel” scene where Stinky Pete promises two Barbie Twins a role in Toy Story 3. I’ve got more on this story from Rob Picheta reporting here at…