Par Idibri — Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/idibri/16217772928, CC BY 2.0, Lien Today, I’m going to tell you the story of a man that has now sued the same employer four times. It’s a bit like the Buffalo Bills of employment litigation, except the plaintiff here hasn’t suffered a fourth defeat…yet. Fake…
If you operate a business in the New England region, maybe cut your employees a little slack on the FMLA call-outs today. Just sayin’. I’ll be back with something a little more employment-law related tomorrow.
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/chatbot-chat-application-artificial-3589528/) If you’re scratching your heads on this one, Grasia Hald‘s post at Medium, “Chatbot 101: Everything you ever wanted to know about Chatbots” may help. Here’s a snippet: A chatbot is a software system, which can interact or “chat” with a human user in natural language (such as English,…
By Matt Popovich uh (https://unsplash.com/photos/UVe-5ZyDdAE) [CC0], via Wikimedia CommonsShout out to Chris Opfer at Bloomberg Law. Chris reported yesterday that the U. S. Department of Justice filed this brief with the United States Supreme Court in this case, in which it argues that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of…
CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Before I get to the Halloween, I’m assuming that if you won last night’s Mega Millions jackpot, you probably have better things to do than read this blog post. If however, you did win, congratulations! And, by reading this far into the blog post, you agree…
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…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com Every so often — not, “if I had a nickel” often, but every once in a while — someone hits me up for my two cents on firing an employee who is on FMLA or some other form of protected leave for [fill in the reason]. And…
The pool office. I died just a little.
Image Credit: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/KIPP-teacher-fired-arrested-racially-remarks-13300013.php?ipid=hpctp#photo-16316860 Remember yesterday’s post? If not, then out of concern for you, I suggest that you see a doctor. Because after all, we’re talking about a post from just one day ago. Either way, to get you back up to speed, yesterday I blogged about an employer that was required…
By Highway Patrol Images (Code 3 combination LED & rotating beacons) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia CommonsHold on, let me proofread that. Employee makes racist Facebook posts, and company must pay him $100,000. Yep, that’s it. How’s that work anyway? Everton Bailey, Jr., writing at the Oregonian, explains: An…