Better to have the courage of your convictions.
I'm sure you've heard of "quiet quitting," when an unhappy employee does the bare minimum to get by and keep drawing a paycheck, but doesn't care much about the job beyond...more
Non-union employers, this goes for you, too!
An employee's use of bad language doesn't necessarily mean that the employer can take action against him. Even if the language arguably violates the employer's no-harassment...more
8/12/2022
/ Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Discipline ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Offensive Language ,
Over-Time ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Social Media ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions ,
Voluntary Participation ,
Wrongful Termination
There's a new sheriff in town . . . . . .
so y'all better straighten up.
You probably know by now that the Biden Administration fired Sharon Fast Gustafson, the Trump-appointed General Counsel of the Equal Employment...more
3/12/2021
/ Age Discrimination ,
Biden Administration ,
EEO ,
EEOC General Counsel ,
Employee Training ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Harassment ,
Joe Biden ,
Mediation ,
Medical Leave ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Race Discrimination ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Retaliation ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wrongful Termination
What the Supreme Court's decision in Fort Bend really means.
As you may have heard, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a plaintiff to proceed with a Title VII religious discrimination lawsuit even though she didn't file a...more
6/7/2019
/ Affirmative Defenses ,
Amended Complaints ,
Appeals ,
Charge-Filing Preconditions ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Forfeiture ,
Fort Bend County Texas v Davis ,
Jurisdictional Requirements ,
Mandatory Claim-Processing Rules ,
Reaffirmation ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Retaliation ,
Reversal ,
SCOTUS ,
Time-Barred Claims ,
Title VII ,
Waiver Rule ,
Wrongful Termination
I'm don't quite agree with the legal analysis, but I agree with the principle.
This week, Greg Giangrande, @Work advice columnist for the New York Post, had a situation that drives me crazy as an employer's lawyer. ...more
Whenever I think I've heard everything, I hear something else.
A federal judge allowed a wrongful discharge lawsuit to go forward, and the dispute is about bed bugs....more
Documentation. What a pain! You have so many more important things to do. But taking the time to document is a good practice that may save you a lot of grief later.
I know that most of you already know what I’m about to...more
It’s been a while since I’ve written about H.B. 2, the North Carolina “bathroom bill,” and I need to get with it.
Wrongful discharge claim based on discrimination is back. As we expected, on July 18, Gov. Pat McCrory...more
I don’t plan to post much more about North Carolina’s HB 2 “bathroom bill” until we start getting court decisions, but this is newsworthy.
As I’ve previously noted, HB 2 had a provision that eliminated the cause of...more
Thanks very much to the colleague who just sent me this. Gov. Pat McCrory (R) of North Carolina has signed Executive Order No. 93, which is somewhat of a backtrack on HB 2....more
For the background on this situation, please see my post from Friday on HB 2. I spoke for almost an hour Friday evening with reporter Greg Lacour from Charlotte Magazine, and he asked me to go through his April 4 article “The...more
Argh! I was hoping not to have to talk about HB 2 again (North Carolina’s notorious “bathroom bill”), but there has been so much misinformation about what it did to wrongful discharge claims that I’ve just gotta....more
Of significance to employers, the bill, which was signed into law last Wednesday, eliminates the common-law cause of action for wrongful discharge based on “EEO” discrimination....more
Big news for employees and employers in North Carolina — the General Assembly enacted a bill on Wednesday (signed by Gov. Pat McCrory (R) within hours) that was primarily intended to preempt a certain high-profile municipal...more
You may have heard about the two Tea Party legislators in Michigan who were having an affair, engaged in a bizarre cover-up that failed, had to resign/were expelled, and then lost their election bids to get their seats back....more
Well, it’s that time of year again – what are you thankful for? Here are some Human Resources and employment law matters for which I am thankful. Please feel free to add your own in the comments....more
Last week, we talked about 20 things an employer should ask itself before terminating an employee. In the interests of fairness, here are 10 things that an employee should ask before suing an employer. You should know that I...more
Here are 20 questions that every employer should ask itself before going ahead with a termination. If you think I’ve missed anything, please feel free to add your own in the comments....more
The case, Ray v. Wal-Mart Stores, involved two incidents at two different Utah Wal-Mart stores and five former employees. Under Wal-Mart policy, employees are required to “disengage” from an individual with a weapon or who...more
If you try to prevent or end workplace discrimination as part of your job, is it legal for your employer retaliate against you?
Inquiring HR professionals, in-house lawyers, and counselors want to know!...more
8/14/2015
/ Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Failure To State A Claim ,
Manager Rule ,
Managers ,
Protected Activity ,
Retaliation ,
Reversal ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Title VII ,
Wrongful Termination
“An apple a day keeps the doctor lawyer away.” Here are five easy and inexpensive things that employers can do to minimize their risk of being sued and maximize their chances of victory if they do get sued. None of these...more
8/8/2015
/ Complaint Procedures ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Disclosure ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Information Sharing ,
Misclassification ,
Non-Exempt Employees ,
Wrongful Termination
Well, this should be interesting. As I’ve reported before, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a funeral home chain in the Detroit area for terminating Aimee Stephens, a transgendered woman, because she...more
Here’s a lesson: Don’t call your employee an “old fart,” especially if you think you may need to fire him someday.
And don’t call his co-workers “old farts” right before you fire the co-workers.
...more
Happy New Year, everyone! While I’ve been out for the holidays, the courts and government agencies have stayed busy with employment law matters. Here are the developments that I thought were especially noteworthy...more