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Philly employers cannot ask applicants about salary history, rules federal appellate court
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Back in 2017, the City of Philadelphia became the first city in the country to pass a law forbidding local employers from asking individuals about their salary history. The purpose of the law was to help close the wage gap between men and women. Continue reading
Guess which state just became the first to require severance following a mass layoff?
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At this point, that’s kinda like asking which day of the week ends in a “y”?
Yep, New Jersey has gone and done it again. Continue reading
The “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing” plaintiff lost her discrimination case. Go figure.
It’s bad enough when a federal judge refers to a plaintiff-employee’s behavior towards her manager as “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing.” And, I apologize that I didn’t have enough room in the title of this blog post to mention the plaintiff’s profanity and fighting at work, or her arrests for drunk driving and drug possession.
So, you’d think that the plaintiff would cut and run after the district court dismissed her claims for pregnancy, sex, race, and religious discrimination claims. But, the plaintiff who referred to herself at work as “crazy” and “psycho” decided to appeal to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
And how do you think that went for the plaintiff? Continue reading
“Smokers and other nicotine users need not apply.” Is that even legal?
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Because I’m a lawyer, I’ll say it depends. Except, I won’t charge you 0.1 hours of my time to say it. Continue reading
A worker complained on Twitter about a $6 holiday gift from his employer. It didn’t end well.
A Toronto man who worked for the same company for six years no longer works there. All because of a tweet and a bottle of barbecue sauce. Continue reading
“How can the same s**t happen to the same guy twice?”
John McClain’s classic line from another classic Christmas movie, Die Hard 2, was the first thing that came to my mind after a story I read last week. Continue reading
This former employee who was fired for social media posts will get his job back. But, your employees probably won’t.
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Raymond Wambsgans from Akron Ohio, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
She responded with words to the effect of, “When are employees going to learn that there is no such thing as free speech?”
Amen. Continue reading
ADA accommodations don’t require eliminating essential job functions, like coming to work punctually.
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Regular, in-person attendance is generally critical to performing one’s job. So, when an employee exhausts her twelve weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act only to miss another 33 days of work (resulting in a 59% absentee rate), one’s job security may be in jeopardy.
But, let’s back up a sec, as I tell you the facts of this disability discrimination case I read last night. Continue reading
Yes, if you get fired (or not hired) for holding a PA medical marijuana card, you can sue.
With a big ‘ol tip of the cap to Phil Miles, Esq. over at Lawffice Space (here) and Daniel Cummins at Tort Talk (here), we’ve got some news that should interest Pennsylvania employers. Continue reading