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The Employer Handbook BlogWhat does a $3.3M jury verdict for race discrimination by a strip club look like? I’ll show you.
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It doesn’t look so good if you are the defendant. Continue reading
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Was that a ‘white power’ symbol at the Chicago Cubs game? Still not ok.
I’ll be the first to admit that, if I were watching this video in real time, I would have missed it.
Missed what?
A Chicago Cubs fan flashing what the team determined was an ‘offensive hand gesture associated with racism’ on live tv. That fan has since been banned from Wrigley Field, where the Cubs play their home games. Continue reading
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.
Yeah, about that rule where you don’t allow employees to text that they’ll be late or absent…
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Here’s the thing.
If you’re managers relax the rule for their direct reports, good luck trying to use that rule as a basis to terminate someone’s employment. Continue reading
How in the world did a DEAD person get suspended for racist behavior?!?
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Imagine being forced to re-employ the person who claims that your company discriminated against her.
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Many people forget that federal anti-discrimination law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, contemplates reinstatement of an employee as a remedy for discrimination. Continue reading
Discrimination 101
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And I suppose that was a bit of a misnomer because there’s more to it. So, let’s talk about that today.
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
Let’s be clear about this: a hangman’s noose is RACIST
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Many years ago, a man called me asking if I would represent him in a discrimination action against a company.
Now, you know me. I’m a management-side lawyer. I write a blog called The Employer Handbook. But, then he mentioned that someone had hung a hangman’s noose at his job site. He had pictures.
And he had my full attention. Continue reading
Girl Scout Cookies and Employment Law – Almost Everything That HR Needs To Know
Won’t you help little Ivy Meyer achieve her Girl Scout Cookies sales goal?
It’s that time of year again.
Coworkers have begun bombarding you with requests to purchase Girl Scout Cookies. So, in that spirit, let’s tackle:
- Whether unions will start organizing your workplace if you relax your no-solicitation policy to allow employees to sell Girl Scout Cookies;
- Can employees use your email system to proselytize if co-workers use it to sell Girl Scout Cookies; and
- A bonus discrimination case involving the sale of Girl Scout Cookies gone terribly wrong.