Close

The Employer Handbook Blog

Updated:

Inappropriate Facebook videos, comments doom an employee’s discrimination claims

On the clock or off, when employees do dumb stuff on Facebook, it could cost them their jobs. And, apparently, their discrimination claims against their former employer too. Yep, another employee screwed up online. Go figure. More on that after the jump… * * * In Brown v. Tyson Foods,…

Updated:

FACT OR FICTION: The ADA requires all employers to offer light duty.

That’s right folks. It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” Peep this ADA failure-to-accommodate case. Plaintiff is disabled and requests light duty. However, the evidence presented showed that there were no…

Updated:

Disclosing an employee’s medical info on Facebook is hella-stupid

Plus, it may violate the Americans with Disabilities Act too. How one company’s alleged blunder turned into an ADA lawsuit and a blog post at https://www.theemployerhandbook.com…after the jump… * * * In Shoun v. Best Formed Plastics, Inc., the plaintiff allegedly suffered a bad shoulder injury at work. And, after…

Updated:

Court: No First Amendment right for teacher to trash students online

Welcome to The Employer Handbook. Extending the fifteen minutes of fame of a trash-talking blogger/teacher by a 300 word blog post. After the jump… * * * Dudes, do you remember Natalie Munroe? She’s the teacher who enjoyed a cup of coffee in the spotlight a few years ago after getting…

Updated:

Is it discrimination to favor a workplace shortie (shawtie?) over her male subordinates?

Because all the other blogs will say “paramour” or “lover”  in the lede, and I need to remain relevant (or “down,” if you will) with my more trendy readers. Over the weekend, I read this case in which a male plaintiff alleged discrimination because his supervisor was allegedly schtupping a…

Updated:

EEOC shows no goodwill to Goodwill Industries: $100K for retaliation

Just in case you thought that the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission uses a soft touch towards any business that may discriminate — let alone a charity. Earlier this week, the EEOC announced here that Goodwill Industries will pay $100,000 to settle a long-standing retaliation lawsuit. In its lawsuit,…

Updated:

Real and Spectacular! A true Seinfeld-ian claim of sexual harassment

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RvNS7JfcMM Before law school was even on the radar for me, I knew that coitus on office furniture was a workplace no-no. And ignorance is not a defense. But, maybe Seinfeld isn’t a thing in Indiana. You see, Connie Orton-Bell worked at a maximum security prison in Indiana. One day,…