Vincent Le Moign [CC BY 4.0]I don’t blog much about the Fair Credit Reporting Act. For those of you who aren’t familiar with FCRA, I suggest that you call an employment lawyer. Like stop reading this blog post right now and call your employment lawyer! For the rest of you…
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…
Nyttend [Public domain], from Wikimedia CommonsThere’s this defense to discrimination claims to which, sadly, we on the defense side must resort occasionally. That is, if a manager or supervisor is mean to everyone, then it is unlikely that he or she has singled out a particular person based on that…
Copyright Free – Stock Free images. Public Domain image dedication. CC0 1.0 Universal Licence – http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Remember when I told you that New Jersey was this close to upping the minimum wage to $15/hr? I lied. (Actually, I was telling the truth.) Dustin Racioppi at NorthJersey.com reports here that Governor Phil…
We don’t talk much about the EEO-1 Report on this blog. The EEO-1 is the federally-mandated survey of company employment data categorized by race/ethnicity, gender and job category Companies with 100 or more employees must file it each year. Certain federal contractors with 50 or more employees must file the…
Image Credit: PXhere.com (https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1291014) Last April, I was talking to an employee-rights attorney about the Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act, legislation in New Jersey that Governor Murphy had just signed. That’s the law requiring pay equality across all protected classes. The attorney asked me words to the effect of,…
Teo’s89 [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia CommonsIn between placing prop bets on the Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show (courtesy of SportsInteraction) — for entertainment purposes only, of course — I read on the AP News wire, “Super Bowl Fever May Sideline Record 17.2 Million Workers on Monday.” Are you ready for…
Evan-Amos [Public domain], from Wikimedia CommonsSenator Marco Rubio (FL-R) has introduced legislation that, if it becomes law, would be a flamethrower to many of the non-competition agreements that you have with your employees. Have I piqued your interest? It’s called the Freedom to Compete Act. You can find a copy…
By BuzzFeed – BuzzFeed Press, converted to SVG in Adobe Illustrator, Public Domain, Link You may have heard the news last week that Buzzfeed was laying off 15% of its workforce. You can read more about that here. Over the weekend, about 600 Buzzfeed employees petitioned management to pay out accrued,…
Image Credit: Pxhere.com (https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1445849) Last week, the full Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued this decision in which it held that an outside job applicant cannot pursue a disparate impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. What does this mean in plain English? Think “unintentional discrimination.” In the Seventh Circuit case, the…