In 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued two employers for terminating a title clerk working at their automobile dealership allegedly over fears that she might have cancer. Continue reading
Yesterday, several news outlets reported that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire at the end of this term. President Bill Clinton appointed Justice Breyer in 1994. Justice Breyer sided with OSHA and HHS in the vaccine mandate cases earlier this month. Indeed, Breyer is considered one of the more “liberal” justices.
But did you know that some (or all) of the “conservative” justices joined in significant employment law decisions that Justice Breyer authored? Continue reading
Over the weekend, a man held four people, including a rabbi, hostage for over ten hours at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Fortunately, the four hostages escaped — they were not released. Their captor died following a standoff with local and federal law enforcement officials. Continue reading
Here’s a reminder that the duty to accommodate an employee under the Americans with Disabilities Act neither requires providing the employee’s preferred accommodation nor an accommodation that is 100% successful.
Instead, it’s about doing what’s reasonable based on the information available at the time.
I’ll explain. Continue reading
I have a lot of respect for human resource professionals. It’s not easy being in HR. Or so I hear.
(No one has ever confused me with someone who put the “human” in human resources. I can be more of a, shall we say, jerk.) Continue reading
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News of a New York-based online mortgage lender’s CEO terminating over 900 employees with no notice on a three-minute Zoom call has been dominating my Google Alerts recently. Continue reading
Almost everything I know about Australia comes from The Simpsons. Continue reading
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While nerds like me were flooding LinkedIn with status updates about Sixth Circuit this and OSHA ETS that, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was hosting a secret “virtual dialogue” with the employer Illuminati about retaliation updating its COVID-19 Technical Assistance to include additional information on retaliation.
Anything 🤯? Continue reading
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In recent years, some states and municipalities have made it unlawful to discriminate based on an individual’s hairstyle because certain protected classes — usually Black women — receive unfair treatment based on inherent hair texture and protective hairstyles, like braids, locs, and twists. Why, yesterday, Tempe became the second city in Arizona to pass a hair discrimination ban.
There’s nothing explicit under federal antidiscrimination law, like Title VII, that outlaws hair discrimination. But, that hasn’t stopped the EEOC from pursuing related claims for race discrimination. Continue reading
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