Gender

EEOC: Not letting transgender employees use the restroom of their gender identity is sex discrimination

May 3, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Around this time last year, I blogged here about Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers. According to OSHA, “all employees should be permitted to use the facilities that correspond to their gender identity.” And, it’s up to the employee to determine for him- or herself “the most appropriate and safest option.”

It should come as no shock that the federal administrative agency tasked with enforcing anti-discrimination law has released a fact sheet, which reaches the same conclusions.

This sad, sobering video is a reminder that your company still employs knuckledraggers #MoreThanMean

April 27, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Most of you have either seen or heard about Mean Tweets from Jimmy Kimmel Live! That’s the segment where celebrities stand in front of the camera with smartphone in hand awkwardly reading the snippets of vitriol that Twitters users can spew about them in 140 characters or less. The celebrities have a good sense of humor about it. And the segment is generally good for some LOL moments.

Well, the folks over at Just Not Sports took Mean Tweets to another level with #MoreThanMean tweets.

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All you need to know about the U.S. Women’s Soccer players’ wage-discrimination battle

April 4, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Last week, five players on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team filed a Charge of Discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the U.S. Soccer Federation. The women claim that they paid up to four times less than their male counterparts for doing basically the same job.

20% of HR Managers say their companies pay men more than women for the same work.

February 26, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

So, do we have a gender pay gap? Or is it a myth?

A Chairperson supposedly tried to get her direct report to marry her son. Her son the company CEO.

February 3, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

YASSSSS!!!!

Oh, thank you blogging gods for this generous clusterfunked bounty. Please accept this offering from your humble minion.

Preferring to hire women instead of men, yeah, that’s called discrimination

December 14, 2015 | by Eric B. Meyer

Unless, of course, you’re filling server positions at Hooters. But, I’m not going there today.

“Off-the-clock” discriminatory Facebook messages can create a hostile work environment

November 9, 2015 | by Eric B. Meyer

As I type this post, I’m watching two of my kids — one dressed as Olaf; the other Elsa — yelling at each other to stop singing Frozen tunes. Now, they’re wrestling — I don’t remember that from the movie. For a snowman, that Olaf is pretty tough. Oh, damn! Parent of the year here has let it go — see what I did there — on too long.

brb…

EEOC scores a major victory for transgender rights

April 23, 2015 | by Eric B. Meyer

Last September, for the first time ever, the EEOC sued two private employers for discriminating against employees who had transitioned from one gender to another.

One of those cases settled last week for $150K.

Yesterday, the other action survived the employer’s motion to dismiss the case. Continue reading

Was the Ellen Pao gender bias trial a wakeup call or snooze for businesses?

March 30, 2015 | by Eric B. Meyer

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I intended to begin the week with a post about a company’s legal obligation to predict — yes, predict — an employee’s mental fitness for duty. Then, I started on a brief tangent on Ellen Pao, the former partner of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, who just lost a highly-publicized gender discrimination claim against said former employer.

And a few hundred words later, that brief tangent became its own blog post — this one. (If you want a wild lawsuit brought by an airline captain who claimed that his former employer was negligent by failing to predict that he’d have a manic in-flight episode, come back tomorrow). Continue reading

#SOTU and the #Workplace: A full debriefing of last night’s Presidential address

January 21, 2015 | by Eric B. Meyer

I had every intention of watching the President address the Nation last night. I really did.

But, then I got sucked into the Director’s Cut of The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island, the one where the Washington Generals show up first and replace all the confetti with lice. Then poor Lovie Howell takes some shrapnel and, frankly, I didn’t realize that Thurston could order a hit squad so quickly to a remote Island.

By the time I remembered the SOTU, the Harlem Globetrotters were busting out a ladder — sorry, Krusty — and que sera.

Fortunately for me, and, by extension, you, the White House printed a copy of the SOTU, which I could ~~cut and paste~~ expertly analyze for you after the jump…

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