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Let’s get you caught up on all the news from the past few days. Continue reading
Articles Posted in Discrimination and Unlawful Harassment
The ADA usually doesn’t require accommodating an employee’s first choice of yoga classes.
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Sometimes, the blogging gods lob me a softball. And when that happens, I know what to do. Continue reading
Sorry. I’ll make it up to you today.
When this happened, you knew that I had to do some celebrating. Twice.
So, the fam and braved the long lines (during which my young children got quite a vocabulary lesson) and headed into Philadelphia on Thursday for the Philadelphia Eagles parade. Just us and a few million strangers.
But, football season is over. I’ve caught my breath. I’m back in employment lawyer blogger mode with a 3-in-1 post today. Continue reading
I’m just going to leave some not-so-subtle hints here about how to up your company’s harassment-training game
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Still recovering from a late night of Super Bowl watching, I was looking forward to mailing it in today with a blog post that isn’t exactly going to break any word-count records. So today, I tip my hat to my friends at Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily who reported yesterday on SHRM’s “Harassment-Free Workplace Series: A Focus on Sexual Harassment.”
This is the first part of the SHRM series. It seems like nice blogging fodder. And God bless them, it’s basically a big infographic. Continue reading
Don’t forget leave as an ADA accommodation. (Yeah, that’s right. Leave!)
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Over the Summer, I blogged here about the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Severson v. Heartland Woodcraft, Inc. (opinion here).
In Severson, the Court concluded that “a multimonth leave of absence is beyond the scope of a reasonable accommodation under the ADA….Simply put, an extended leave of absence does not give a disabled individual the means to work; it excuses his not working.” (my emphasis)
It’s an excellent opinion for employers, especially those that do business in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
But, I want to use today’s post to refocus and remind you that leave can be a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Continue reading
In hindsight, maybe re-hiring the guy who allegedly drugged and assaulted a female co-worker was a bad choice.
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You know what? Strike that. Milk was a bad choice.
When a car dealership allegedly rehired the guy who supposedly drugged and assaulted a female co-worker — now the plaintiff in this action — it bought itself a viable hostile work environment claim. Continue reading
Hey Handbook! Do we have to let our employee bring his emotional-support peacock to work?
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Bet you weren’t expecting that, were you? Continue reading
Plaintiff’s discrimination claim foiled by Instagram filters
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HR to Vietnamese job applicant, ‘If you no speak English, I will send you home’
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A lesson on workplace drug testing and opioids
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One of your potential hires just completed a five-panel drug test as a condition of employment, and he tested positive for opioids.
What do you do?