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A Friday fistful of Amy Coney Barrett on employment law
Finally, we put the wraps on “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. There is so much left to discuss, but, well, I’ve got a thing. Continue reading
Finally, we put the wraps on “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. There is so much left to discuss, but, well, I’ve got a thing. Continue reading
In Tuesday’s installment of “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook, we explored Judge Barrett’s determination that a jury’s $300K national original discrimination award should survive appeal.
Today, I have another case for you in which Judge Barrett handled the appeal of a jury verdict for the plaintiff. But, this time, the plaintiff is none other than the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Continue reading
Congratulations! You’ve made half-way through “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. Well, technically, you won’t reach the midpoint until you get about 178 words into this 356-word-long post, but you get the idea.
So, how about we discuss the thrilling, compelling, edge-of-your-seat world of arbitration provisions? Continue reading
Welcome back to “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook.
I’m devoting five blog posts to some of her most significant employment law decisions so that, maybe, we can read the tea leaves to see how she may rule from the Supreme Court bench if the Senate confirms her nomination.
Over the weekend, President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to fill the open Supreme Court seat. Since this is an ***check notes*** employment law blog, many of you may be wondering how Judge Barrett would decide an employment law case on the Supreme Court. Continue reading
In a demand letter sent Wednesday to actor Bill Murray, an attorney for The Doobie Brothers told the actor to stop using his clients’ music in his commercials without paying for it, while condemning Mr. Murray to “eternal damnation” for his Garfield movies.
Ouch!

WhiteHouse.gov
A few weeks ago, I blogged here about the White House changing federal diversity training. Eighty-six “critical race theory” and “white privilege” in any training for government workers. For that matter, all training on any propaganda effort that “teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil,” would end.
On Tuesday, the White House signed an Executive Order expanding those training bans to government contractors too. Continue reading

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Employee versus independent contractor, who cares? The U.S. Department of Labor, that’s who.
(And that means you should too.) Continue reading
You get emergency paid sick leave! You get emergency paid sick leave! You get emergency paid sick leave! Continue reading

Supreme Court of the United States / Public domain
Discord lies ahead in the coming weeks as 100 Senators will indeed wage a fierce battle to address the new Supreme Court opening that the passing of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday created. Yet, there was still harmonic support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for this champion of equal rights. Continue reading