Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash What a long, strange trip it’s been for one particular transgender-discrimination lawsuit. Back in 2014, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission used a Michigan funeral home and alleged it violated Title VII by firing an employee because of her transgender or transitioning status and her…
By Ed Brown (Ed Brown) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsWhat if I told you that conducting a wage-and-hour audit and discovering a Fair Labor Standards Act violation could save you money? “Uh, Eric. Is the air up there in the cloud getting thin?” Hear me out. The PAID program. Yesterday,…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/office-freelancer-computer-business-583841/) After all that’s happened in my professional career over the past several days — you can catch up here and here — I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank you, the readers. You have uplifted me with your positivity and support. I deeply appreciate every, single…
Today is my first day at FisherBroyles, LLP. [If you missed “Thank You (Part I),” Friday’s tribute to my former colleagues at Dilworth Paxson, you check it out here.] I have so much to tell you about this exciting opportunity with FisherBroyles, and my reasons for joining this cutting-edge law…
Photo by Jasmine Wallace from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/adult-blur-bokeh-bright-613321/ Today is my last day at Dilworth Paxson LLP. For just over 12 years, Dilworth Paxson has been my home. (It’s ok Millenials. Just breathe.) I gave notice to the firm a few weeks ago that I’d be resigning. During that meeting with our…
Image Credit: Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/arcade-games-video-games-154575/) Hey, I can’t make this stuff up. Claire Warner at Bustle.com reports here that game designer Jane Friedhoff released a video game last week that, well, here’s the description from the game designer: Two mall shop-girls find out they’ve been stiffed wages that the men in their department…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/network-cable-ethernet-plug-1027307/) Last September, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a multi-month leave of absence is never a reasonable accommodation under the Americans With Disabilities Act. That’s all well and good for employers in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. But, what about the rest of us? For…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/pride-gay-nyc-new-york-city-flag-2444813/) It took the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about 50 years to recognize that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protected employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation. Now, in less than three years since the agency’s groundbreaking decision in 2015, two federal appellate courts have joined…
Image Credit: By Keith Allison from Baltimore, USA (00033816) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsOver the weekend, I read Jon Wertheim and Jessica Luther’s article at SI.com (NSFW – language), which describes a workplace that for many women was flat out scary AF. A “locker room culture.” I’m not talking about…
Photo by PhotoMIX Ltd. from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/marketing-desk-office-tablet-106341/ Hold up a sec. I’m dizzy. A win for Google. Earlier this week, Team Cool a/k/a the employment-law blogger community, began to report that the National Labor Relations Board had dismissed unfair labor practice charges against Google. And not just any old charges. No,…