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The Employer Handbook BlogHe was hired at 63 and fired at 64. Yep, that could still be age discrimination.
A lesson on why it’s so important to tell it like it is when firing someone. Continue reading
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Another court greenlights a medicinal marijuana user’s lawsuit against his former employer
This may not be Magic vs. Bird or Biggie vs. Tupac. Those battles are too close to call.
But, if I were to ask you which side of the country, east coast or west coast, would offer greater judicial support for the employment rights of medicinal-marijuana cardholders, you’d say west for sure, right?
And you’d be wrong… Continue reading
If you think you’re gonna get sued, protect your documents! Or else bad things may happen.
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter “S.” Continue reading
What in the holy hell might this employer have been thinking? (And how you can do better…)
As an employment lawyer nearly 20 years under my belt, I’m fairly jaded. Or maybe, I’m just numb.
Either way, I have plenty of stories for a cocktail hour. Continue reading
DOJ: Federal law does not protect gay employees from discrimination at work
On the same day that President Donald Trump tweeted that the military should ban transgender people from serving, the U.S. Department of Justice doubled down. That is, in a pleading filed yesterday in a federal appellate court, the United States of America revealed its position that our federal laws that protect against discrimination at work do not apply to gay employees.
Suffice it to say, yesterday was not a good day for the LGBT community. Continue reading
I was this close to playing Mad Libs with Gov. Christie’s veto of NJ’s Paid Family Leave expansion.
But, the guy’s been through so much in the past year.
Plus, I’m not certain that any of my Millennial readers know what Mad Libs are. As far as I know, they haven’t developed a Mad Libs Snapchat filter and Mad Libs wouldn’t make for a compelling podcast. Continue reading
Hey D-Man! Enjoy every bit of that ice cream birthday pie!
I adored Jon Hyman’s ADA blog post yesterday. So much so that it even began to thaw my icy-cold management-side employment-lawyer heart.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to hire slow and fire fast to get my mojo back.
That time when an employee argued that taking vacation days was “discipline.”
I’m gonna let you in on a little secret — an easy-peasy way to accommodate an employee who needs a day off from work as a religious accommodation…