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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

Maryland State Government Employee’s Job Duties Reinstated after Demotion Following Facebook Post

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/4/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: Employees’ use of their personal social media accounts in ways that could impact an employer’s business present challenges to employers....more

EEOC Argues that Sexual Orientation Discrimination by a Heterosexual Person can Constitute a Protected Activity

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/14/2018

In her appeal to the Fifth Circuit, Plaintiff Bonnie O’Daniel argues that the trial court wrongly concluded that it was unreasonable for O’Daniel to believe that a complaint about discrimination based on sexual orientation...more

Two Employees, Social Media, An Unlawful Policy ... What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 8/7/2017

The advent of social media resulted in a feverish effort by the NLRB to keep up with new technology. In reality, the legal standard for evaluating whether conduct is protected concerted activity did not change. Rather, all...more

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Maryland State Government Employee’s Job Duties Reinstated after Demotion Following Facebook Post

EEOC Argues that Sexual Orientation Discrimination by a Heterosexual Person can Constitute a Protected Activity

Two Employees, Social Media, An Unlawful Policy ... What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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