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NY Giants release statement to rebut Brian Flores’s “disturbing and simply false” allegations of race discrimination

February 4, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Yesterday, in this video about the Brian Flores race discrimination lawsuit against the National Football League, Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos, and New York Giants, my partner and I talked about whether the complaint pled enough facts to withstand a motion to dismiss.

Of the race discrimination claims against the three football teams, we concluded that the one against the NY Giants seemed the strongest (relatively). Last night, the NY Giants responded — to Mr. Flores, not my partner and me — with a statement explaining why they believe that Mr. Flores’s claims against the team have no merit.

Let’s take a look.

VIDEO: Can Brian Flores’s lawsuit against the NFL and three teams survive? Two employment lawyers weigh in.

February 3, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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On February 1, 2022, the first day of Black History Month, Brian Flores filed a bombshell class-action lawsuit in federal court. Continue reading

Suppose you catch two employees operating a $1.5M fake COVID-19 vaccine card operation. Do you have to call the police?

February 2, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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I’ll bet they didn’t cover this when you were studying for your SHRM-CP, did they?

Is this the worst batch of retaliatory emails I’ve ever read? Maybe.

February 1, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Print this post if you want to discourage your managers and supervisor from putting dumb sh*t in emails that might one day get shown to a jury and end up costing your business a mint. Continue reading

Here are 150,000 reasons not to play doctor when your employee tells you that she may have cancer.

January 31, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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In 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued two employers for terminating a title clerk working at their automobile dealership allegedly over fears that she might have cancer. Continue reading

RUMOR: The feds are discussing more COVID-19 paid leave for private employers

January 28, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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I really wanted to blog about the policemen who got fired for catching Pokémon rather than criminals. But, sigh, I’ll save that for a future blog post. Continue reading

“Liberal” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring. Here are three times he joined “conservative” justices when deciding employment law cases.

January 27, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Yesterday, several news outlets reported that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire at the end of this term. President Bill Clinton appointed Justice Breyer in 1994. Justice Breyer sided with OSHA and HHS in the vaccine mandate cases earlier this month. Indeed, Breyer is considered one of the more “liberal” justices.

But did you know that some (or all) of the “conservative” justices joined in significant employment law decisions that Justice Breyer authored? Continue reading