By Soberconnections [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia CommonsFolks, I’m warning you, this is a tough one. The ADA, illegal drugs, legal drugs. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, an employer must provide a reasonable accommodation (if available) to a qualified individual with a disability upon request if doing so will…
Mikebay1968 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia CommonsSpoiler alert: A lot. Yep, last Thursday, a California jury awarded $7.97 million to a woman who claimed that he employer fired her in retaliation for claiming workers’ compensation benefits. And even though the case settled on Monday, while…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/blockchain-block-chain-technology-3019120/) You’ve heard of the blockchain, right? But, if I asked you to explain it to me, half you would say, “Yeah, dude. Bitcoin.” The other half, well, I’m thinking I’d get something like this… Don’t worry. In this post, I’m going to turn you into a…
By Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsOn February 5, 2018, the Detroit Lions named former New England Patriots Defensive Coordinator Matt Patricia as the team’s new Head Coach. Maybe, Lions ownership missed Super Bowl LII and the 41 points that the Philadelphia Eagles dropped…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/women-men-people-human-gender-149577/) When you think about lawsuits involving transgender employees and issues of gender identity, most assume that those claims would be asserted as sex discrimination claims. Often, those cases involve allegations of sex stereotyping. Except, about this time last year, I had a post entitled, “Pay…
By The All-Nite Images from NY, NY, USA (Black Lives Matter Black Friday) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsA white man who cast himself as a rising star at a midwest bank claimed that his trajectory plummetted after he posted a message on Facebook criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.…
I am pleased to share my guest contribution to the Philadelphia Business Journal. If you subscribe to this blog to receive daily emails, you must update your subscription preferences. You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. To help…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/megaphone-speaker-speakers-speak-3272636/) Here are the important announcements: First, if you subscribe to this blog to receive daily emails, you must update your subscription preferences. You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. To help comply with GDPR…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/nurse-temperature-thermometer-309731/) [UPDATED (12:30 PM Eastern): I made a few mistakes in the original post that I am correcting now. First, the link to the paid sick leave law was to a prior version of the law. I corrected that with an updated link. Second, employees can accrue…
Image Credit: FreeStockPhotos.biz (http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/15030) We employment lawyers have stories upon stories. When it comes to the employer-employee relationship, especially when that relationship hits the skids, we’ve seen it all. But, every once in a while there comes a story that even raises my eyebrows. Last week, the EEOC issued a…