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No more no-rehire provisions in your settlement agreements. What do you think?
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Last night, I read with interest — lawyers always read with interest, that’s why we get to charge the big bucks — about a new employment law that will take effect in California at the start of 2020. Continue reading
Can your business prevent Oscar from living in a trash can without violating the ADA?
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Let’s pretend that you operate a sanitation company. One of your employees — let’s call him ‘Oscar’ — tells you that he would like to take a multi-week sabbatical to learn more about his job and spend some time living in a trash can. Continue reading
Looking for HR information on conducting workplace investigations? You’ve hit the MOTHERLODE!
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Back in the early Summer of 2017, most of the experts — the pundits, if you will — were predicting that American businesses were not going to spend as much in 2018 on advice from employment law attorneys.
Then, in September 2017, along came a guy named Harvey Weinstein. Continue reading
And here is a retaliation claim that may make it all the way to a jury to decide
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Earlier this week, I detailed several feeble retaliation claims that a federal court easily brushed aside.
Today, I’ll talk about another retaliation claim that almost suffered a similar fate until one of the most conservative federal appellate courts in the country breathed new life into it. Continue reading
SCOTUS Oral Argument Recap: Is Justice Gorsuch the swing vote on LGBT workplace rights?
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After reading 133 pages of transcripts from yesterday’s two (1, 2) oral arguments in the three LGBT workplace rights cases pending before the Supreme Court, three things are clear to me: Continue reading
Today at the Supreme Court, LGBT rights at work take center stage.
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It’s been a while since the Supreme Court weighed in on a big-time employment-law issue. That’s about to change.
8 examples of employee retaliation claims that courts reject.
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Retaliation is one of the most common employment claims pursued in court. Indeed, it’s the #1 claim individuals make at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
An employer trolled a job candidate’s bikini photo on Instagram and it backfired HORRIBLY
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Many of you have Googled or otherwise searched for a job candidate online before extending an official offer. I imagine that there were times that you found something objectionable that caused you to reconsider the offer.
But, how many of you have actually gone so far as to publicize your selection process on social media and shame the candidate? Continue reading
NJ issues “Guidance on Race Discrimination Based on Hairstyle”
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Just before Christmas last year, a referee in a high school wrestling match in New Jersey told an African-American wrestler that he must cut his dreadlocks or forfeit the match. This made national news.