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🤔🤔🤔💪💪💪 Mom ordered a ‘Moana’ cake for her daughter’s birthday. She got a marijuana cake instead. Whoops!
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We’ve all been there. Continue reading
A substitute teacher was fired for allegedly filming porn in a high school classroom. Let’s have a lesson on background checks.
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Ew! We need bleach and a dumpster fire for the school supplies! Continue reading
Three employment law lessons from Harvard University’s decision to revoke the admission of a Parkland shooting survivor
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For something the school just learned that he did two years ago. Continue reading
Grab the tack hammer. It’s the ‘Tommy Boy’ of employment discrimination stupid.
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Last week, I wavered about whether to include a line from Tommy Boy in a brief that I was drafting:
“I tell ya what. If you don’t know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I’ll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer.”
Ultimately, I decided that it was bad form. One could reasonably construe my use of that quote as antagonizing and bit snarky. Moi?!?
So, I’m using it for this blog post instead. Continue reading
The owner’s son was fired for peeing on a child’s cancer memorial. Lessons on accountability and off-duty conduct.
The owner of a plumbing company fired his son who is accused of urinating on a memorial dedicated to a boy who died from cancer in 2012. Continue reading
A new bill in Congress will end forced arbitration of employment claims. But, will it pass?
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In a statement issued earlier this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced that he would “not rest” until Congress passed “historic legislation to end forced arbitration.”
I have a feeling Mr. Nadler is going to be pretty tired. But, let’s see what this is all about. Continue reading
A company allegedly fired a woman because she got an abortion. But, is that illegal?
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A Louisiana woman claimed that, back in September 2017, she told her employer that she had become pregnant and that she was planning on having an abortion. The woman then alleged that, during her time off from work, the company violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) by firing her.
Let’s assume that the company did fire her for getting an abortion. Does that violate the PDA? Continue reading
How in the world did a DEAD person get suspended for racist behavior?!?
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Yes, you can be fired for cursing about clients in the office bathroom
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