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The Employer Handbook BlogCourt politely tells union where to stick its request to reinstate a member accused of sexual harassment.
***pops open can of Haterade***
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I’m telling you. Bad things happen when the Board Chair plays matchmaker for her son, the CEO.
Over the weekend, I was reading this recent opinion from a federal judge in Maryland and, with a big smile on my face, I started polishing up my blogging crown and scepter.
Allen v. TV One, LLC is a case about a woman who alleges that she was constantly pestered by the Board Chair to marry the company CEO, the Board Chair’s son. For example, the Board Chair supposedly told the plaintiff, “I’m going to be your mother one way or another. Either you will marry [my son] or I will marry your father and be your stepmother.”
And, I’m like…this opinion has The Employer Handbook written all over it!
Except, then I remembered. I already did blog about it. Continue reading
Watching porn at work doesn’t necessarily create a hostile work environment for others.
Is this prurient blog title a convenient excuse to play a J. Geils Band tune on the blog? Maybe. But, still I’ll toss in a side of HR-compliance. Continue reading
3 complaints and an investigation with discipline, how could an employer not know about possible harassment?!?
I’m not sure what kind of evidence a federal jury was expecting when it concluded that two plaintiff-intervenors (i.e., the alleged victims of sexual harassment on whose behalf the EEOC pursued claims) did not do enough to notify the employer-defendant about possible harassment in the workplace.
And neither did a federal judge when he concluded that a federal jury plainly overlooked evidence that the employer-defendant should have known about possible sexual harassment.
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
Fact or Fiction: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
I’m dusting one off today.
It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” Continue reading
HELP WANTED: CEO, especially one who isn’t a damn knuckledragger!
In February, a female Uber employee blogging under the pseudonym Amy Vertino blew the lid off of what she alleged to be a corporate culture of misogyny and other rampant discrimination. Recently, there have been several additional high-profile stories of alleged sex discrimination and harassment at the very top of the ladder. Here’s a recent example reported on Monday.
But, allegations of sexism in the C-Suite have been around long before Uber, Fox News, and Mad Men.
So why is it now that the chickens are coming home to roost? And what can your business do to try to avoid these issues? Continue reading
Bloomberg’s in depth coverage of social media sex shenanigans at work is too good not to share
I know good clickbait when I see it.
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Lawsuit: P. Diddy did it (sexual harassment) right after he and his house guests did it (sex).
When others go high, I go low.
Wait a minute! I got that backwards didn’t I? Dammit! That explains why I didn’t come up with “In Firing Employees, A Bit of Humanity Still Helps.” It’s a pragmatic post inspired by recent events from employment lawyer and blogger, Daniel Schwartz.
Instead, I get my HR-compliance news from a TMZ story entitled, “I HAD TO SERVE HIS POST-SEX MEALS… He Served Up His Junk.” Welp, there’s only one thing left to do, I guess.
Yes, I’d better double down. Continue reading