It was right at the moment that I thought that I’d recovered from Saturday night’s disco inferno and baseball extravaganza, when I realized, yesterday, that I’d paired DC Comics with Marvel by coming to work in Batman socks and Guardians of the Galaxy II boxer shorts. Hopefully, my reader won’t…
Consider this my attempt at “Serenity now” after chaperoning eight kids eight and younger at a Philadelphia Phillies game on Saturday. With a rain delay. And the tiny dancer featured above. Fortunately, we left the ballpark with all of the kids. I think. Hopefully, my oldest son, Brooks, enjoyed his birthday.…
On Tuesday, NJ Governor Chris Christie issued this press release announcing bipartisan legislation designed to strengthen New Jersey’s already existing ban the box law, known as “The Opportunity to Compete Act.” NJ’s ban the box law, which I previously blogged about here, makes it unlawful for companies with 15 or more…
I know good clickbait when I see it. LinkedIn, Tinder, Potato, Potato. First, Polly Mosendz and Rebecca Greenfield report here at Bloomberg.com about how a managing director allegedly misread the signs and took a less orthodox approach to recruiting a candidate. He used his corporate LinkedIn account to share a picture…
That is stupider than stupid stupid. It’s also a central allegation in this complaint that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity filed in a Georgia federal court last week. Here’s more from the press release: Hester Foods, Inc., the operator of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant franchise in Dublin, Ga., violated federal law…
Nearly four years ago, I blogged here about a complaint that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed against a West Virginia coal company. The lawsuit alleged that the employer failed to accommodate an employee who requested not to use a biometric hand scanner to track time and attendance. Why? Because…
Got that? It’s not just people who fabricate complaints of discrimination at work, but those whom you believe fabricated discrimination claims. Everybody, roar it with me, “Yassssss!” In Villa v. Cavamezze Grill, LLC (opinion here), the plaintiff was a low-level manager at a restaurant. Around Halloween in 2013, the plaintiff reported…
What was I thinking? Just ask a plaintiff who not only lost on her state and federal discrimination and retaliation claims but, according to a New Jersey federal judge, “willfully deceived” both the employer-defendant and the Court “in bad faith and manipulated the judicial process.” So, earlier this week, the judge really…
This one’s got me confused like Britney on X-Factor. Last year, a Texas federal court entered a nationwide injunction against the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rules. Among other things, those overtime rules would have raised the minimum salary level needed for an employee to be exempt from receiving overtime…
And when that video goes viral on social media, it’s not only ironic but quite blogworthy. So here we are… Emily Crane at the Daily Mail reports here that a Philadelphia television reporter has been fired. The reason? Well, she got into it with a police officer outside of a…