John Pueschel, partner in the Winston-Salem office of Womble Bond Dickinson, examines the limits on employee free speech and use of social media against the background of recent events at Google and in Charlottesville....more
11/3/2017
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
First Amendment ,
Free Speech ,
Google ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Rights Act ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Private Sector ,
Section 7 ,
Social Media ,
Social Media Policy ,
Termination ,
Title VII ,
UK
In a significant decision that expands the rights of employees, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled on April 4, 2017 that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination...more
4/7/2017
/ Appeals ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Split of Authority ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
Right now, many organizations are getting ready for a new class of interns to arrive in May when schools and colleges finish for the summer. With fully laudable intentions, many organizations offer summer internships as a...more