Image by mibapict from Pixabay Today, we’re taking a break from wage-and-hour compliance because I’m not sure that you can continue to handle that much fun. How else would you interpret so many people (un)subscribing to this blog yesterday? Instead, I want to talk about news of this brief that…
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Allow me to explain. Eric. remind me. What is the Equality Act? Among other things, the Equality Act would amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal anti-discrimination law for the workplace, to clarify that discrimination based on sex (currently…
Photo via Good Free Photos Short answer: No. Slightly longer answer: No, you jerk, of course not! In a few hundred more words, I’ll explain why. New Jersey: Lovers of pork roll and equal rights; haters of ‘gaydar’ comments from supervisors. The genesis for this blog post is this press…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/photos/question-question-mark-survey-2736480/) Oh, did I mention that the plaintiff was the HR Manager? Bruh… And she made an incendiary Facebook post. Well, that I can believe. (I’m friends on Facebook with several HR folks.) Then again, I don’t recall seeing a post like this. Let’s check out the…
Image Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/pride-gay-nyc-new-york-city-flag-2444813/ The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the prohibition against sex discrimination in Title VII also covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In other words, are there LGBT legal rights in the workplace? I should be on my third keyboard with all of…
Image Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/pride-gay-nyc-new-york-city-flag-2444813/ There is a sure-fire way to avoid the uncertainty of when and how the Supreme Court may — legal jargon in 3…2…1… — adjudicate LGBT rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And that’s to pass a law making LGBT discrimination at work…
Image Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/pride-gay-nyc-new-york-city-flag-2444813/ A few weeks ago, a Pennsylvania federal judge reluctantly ruled in this case that discrimination based on sexual orientation is not unlawful (or you, could say, permissible) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Here’s what Judge Gerald McHugh said: This case involves a…
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsYesterday, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh delivered the opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court in a case called Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. Although the Court’s decision has nothing to do with employment law —…
Image Credit: Flickr.com (https://www.flickr.com/photos/keithallison/27388069805) //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js And it’s only Tuesday! On Thursday at 3 pm ET, I’ll be participating in a free 1-hour webinar with my friends at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. This one is a “Roundtable Discussion: Navigating LGBTQ+ Issues in the Workplace.” CLE credit is available. You can register for the event…
By Nederlands Instituut voor de Classificatie voor Audiovisueel Materiaal (NICAM) (http://www.kijkwijzer.nl/upload/download_pc/7.pdf) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsBy the time you read this, I should be blissfully cruising in the Atlantic outside the range of any cell towers. However, between now (Saturday afternoon) and Monday, I am feverishly punching out 5 blog…