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Employers must adjust employee performance standards to avoid penalizing employees on FMLA leave
Suppose one of your employees, a widget maker, takes leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Continue reading
Suppose one of your employees, a widget maker, takes leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Continue reading
Earlier this week, I wrote about a judge calling out an employee for trying to cast a personal choice to remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 as some deeply religious decision.
Last night, I read another recent opinion from a federal judge who called an employee trying to avoid a mandatory vaccination requirement at his new job on his religious 🐂💩. Continue reading
Earlier in the week, I shared four ways to BOTCH a sexual harassment investigation. My “muse” was an Employee Relations Department that caught the attention of the EEOC for its alleged poor handling of an employee’s complaints of sexual harassment.
But I appreciate a good comeback story, don’t you? And I’ve got one for you today. Continue reading
This sounds like something that might interest the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Continue reading
There are all sorts of anti-retaliation laws that protect employees. Many require that employees who invoke them prove that the employer acted with retaliatory intent.
But not all of them.
Before discussing the jury verdict, I’ll tell you a little about how we got here.
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“When are you going to retire?” “Why don’t you retire at 65?” “What is the reason you are not retiring?” Continue reading
Last night, I read a NJ Appellate Division opinion about a plaintiff in his fifties who claimed his age motivated the defendant to end his employment.
Spoiler alert: it didn’t.
Notice anything potentially unlawful here? Continue reading
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Continue reading