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Grab the tack hammer. It’s the ‘Tommy Boy’ of employment discrimination stupid.
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Last week, I wavered about whether to include a line from Tommy Boy in a brief that I was drafting:
“I tell ya what. If you don’t know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I’ll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer.”
Ultimately, I decided that it was bad form. One could reasonably construe my use of that quote as antagonizing and bit snarky. Moi?!?
So, I’m using it for this blog post instead. Continue reading
2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris just floated ‘the most aggressive equal pay proposal in history.’
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When a woman makes offensive comments about being female. A lesson on implicit bias.
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I live and work about 100 miles northeast of Baltimore, MD.
I don’t have my finger on the pulse of everything that’s going on in the Charm City. However, I do know that the City’s 50th mayor, Catherine Pugh, had a bad run there at the end. She resigned on May 2, which was about a week after the FBI and IRS conducted multiple raids relating to her business affairs. You can read all about it here.
The purpose of today’s post is not to pile onto Ms. Pugh. Instead, I want to focus on another related separation of employment and a lesson for your workplace.
On Equal Pay Day, let’s take a closer look at what’s being done to address pay disparity.
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Today is Equal Pay Day. Continue reading
On International Women’s Day, the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team sued U.S. Soccer to demand equal pay.
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But, can the plaintiffs prevail? Continue reading
Your EEO-1 will now take 3.4 hours longer to complete
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Sometimes you can favor women over men for a job; other times it’ll cost you $41,000
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We’re talkin’ softball. Continue reading
Court denies man’s pay-disparity claim because, yep, he was paid more than the women. 🤦
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I don’t remember much from law school.
“Meyer, quick! Name three of ’em!”
Ok. Continue reading
“Historic, sweeping equal pay legislation” passes in New Jersey. Is your business ready?
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Well, mark your calendars for July 1, 2018.
That’s when the Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act will take effect, after Governor Phil Murphy signed it into law on April 24. Continue reading