🤔🤔🤔💪💪💪 When you have a Google Alert for “Fired” and “Facebook,” sometimes, you really have to get through a lot of chaff before you find the wheat. Over the past few days, I’ve had to sift through: The Bachelorette: Hannah Is Still Roasting Luke P. for Trying to Sex-Shame Her…
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Mom ordered a ‘Moana’ cake for her daughter’s birthday. She got a marijuana cake instead. Whoops!
Image Credit: Kensli Taylor Davis on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220318919467148&set=a.2332519756469&type=3&theater) We’ve all been there. Ok, some of us haven’t accidentally decorated a viral marijuana cake. Here’s what happened according to this report from Trisha Ahmed and Katherine Dillinger reporting at CNN: A marijuana-themed cake made this family’s day in Milledgeville, Georgia —…
A substitute teacher was fired for allegedly filming porn in a high school classroom. Let’s have a lesson on background checks.
Liz [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsNot watching porn; filming it. Ew! We need bleach and a dumpster fire for the school supplies! According to this report from Brhe Berry and Shelley Childers at ABC 13, a school official confirmed that a substitute teacher, whom the school had employed for…
Three employment law lessons from Harvard University’s decision to revoke the admission of a Parkland shooting survivor
Joseph Williams [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsThroughout much of the day yesterday, Twitter trended with news that Harvard University had rescinded the college admission of one of Parkland shooting survivors. For something the school just learned that he did two years ago. Here’s more from Joe Sterling reporting here…
Grab the tack hammer. It’s the ‘Tommy Boy’ of employment discrimination stupid.
Image Credit: Tommy Boy (screenshot from Vimeo.com) Last week, I wavered about whether to include a line from Tommy Boy in a brief that I was drafting: “I tell ya what. If you don’t know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I’ll have Tommy Boy here come…
The owner’s son was fired for peeing on a child’s cancer memorial. Lessons on accountability and off-duty conduct.
The owner of a plumbing company fired his son who is accused of urinating on a memorial dedicated to a boy who died from cancer in 2012. That’s according to multiple news reports, including this report from Colt Shaw of the Press of Atlantic City Apparently, a friend recorded the…
A new bill in Congress will end forced arbitration of employment claims. But, will it pass?
Image Credit: Photofunia.com In a statement issued earlier this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced that he would “not rest” until Congress passed “historic legislation to end forced arbitration.” I have a feeling Mr. Nadler is going to be pretty tired. But, let’s see what this is all…
A company allegedly fired a woman because she got an abortion. But, is that illegal?
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay A Louisiana woman claimed that, back in September 2017, she told her employer that she had become pregnant and that she was planning on having an abortion. The woman then alleged that, during her time off from work, the company violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act…
How in the world did a DEAD person get suspended for racist behavior?!?
Uncredited [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsNot only that but two different employers disciplined the same dead person on the same day. Last Friday, I was on the road in Cleveland doing some anti-harassment training for managers and supervisors. Minutes before my second session, I glanced down at my phone to…
Yes, you can be fired for cursing about clients in the office bathroom
MarkBuckawicki [CC0], via Wikimedia CommonsIf I were the boss, I’d fire anyone for talking in a public office restroom. Period. Full stop. But, carrying on and cursing about clients of the company is certainly a terminable offense. Just ask the National Labor Relations Board. Here’s the setup: Two employees entered…