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Do we have to hire the best candidate for the job … if they have a visible Swastika tattoo?
I’ve read this post and this post about this recent lawsuit about seven current and former employees who claim they were forced to work with ‘Nazi sympathizers.’ They allege that the company hired and promoted a white employee with a swastika tattoo on his face and ties to a white nationalist group.
If true — and remember that these are just allegations in a complaint — that’s awful.
But let’s change the facts. Continue reading
It turns out that an employee planning her “exit strategy” with her attorney wasn’t constructively discharged from her job.
I’ll go ahead and file this one under: “Ya think?”
But perhaps I’m getting out over my skis. So, let’s see what you think. Continue reading
875,000 reasons why the customer isn’t always right
A staffing company allegedly fulfilling a customer’s discriminatory hiring practices learned this lesson the hard way. Continue reading
Three reasons why a Texas federal court may block the FTC’s noncompete rule nationwide
At noon ET today on Zoom, we aim to cover everything employers need to know now about the Federal Trade Commission’s blunderbuss Non-Compete Rule. (We may have a few seats left. Click here to register for this free Zoom powered by HRLearns.)
If we don’t actually cover “everything” this afternoon, I wanted to highlight here three arguments from a brief that the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) filed yesterday in one of the pending lawsuits supporting a nationwide injunction of the Rule. Continue reading
HR told me I was fired for not losing my religion
Well, not me. But, a former employee claimed it happened to him. So, let’s cue R.E.M. and talk about religious expression in the workplace. Continue reading
“This case arises from a workplace romance.” It began as “an affair” when “they were not yet colleagues, only lovers.”
Kind of sounds like the start of a beautiful movie or novel, doesn’t it?
Unfortunately, however, it became more Lady Gaga. Or, more precisely, the writings of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals adjudicating an on-again-off-again sexual relationship between the “lovers” who became “colleagues” in the “workplace” and, later, plaintiff and defendant in a quid pro quo sexual harassment lawsuit.
An employer that supposedly instructed employees to pray away COVID-19 now must face religious discrimination claims.
Colloquially, today’s topic is “reverse religious discrimination.” But, more accurately, it’s about a claim of “religious nonconformity.”
In plain English, what happens when an employee refuses to comply with their employer’s religion? Continue reading
This, if true, is what we call direct evidence of race discrimination
Yesterday’s post discussed how direct evidence “proves impermissible discriminatory bias without additional inference or presumption,” i.e., the proverbial smoking gun. But smoking gun evidence in discrimination cases is rare. Employers aren’t out there telling employees that their race will cost them their jobs.
Well, most employers, that is. Continue reading
