Archive: November 2007

It's been a busy week in the blogosphere. Everyone is back at work, having digested their turkey and probably having started their holid...

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Danial Schwartz at the Connecticut Employment Law Blog posted yesterday on a case from the Second Circuit, which held that the mere presenc...

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The Carnival of HR (#21 for those keeping count) is available at Race in the Workplace . For those unfamiliar with the Carnival of HR, it ...

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Managing medical leaves of absence is the bane of nearly every HR department I come in contact with. In my experience, companies either rea...

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While not the most exciting news, all companies should update their hiring forms with the new I-9 available from the U.S. Citizenship & ...

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Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Dilbert ran a small arc on family responsibility discrimination. The company decides to become "family ...

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I was planning on taking the holiday weekend off, but then Governor Strickland had to publicly come out against the adoption of the new preg...

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I'll be taking a much needed few days off, from both the hectic practice of law and the frantic blogging I...

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Blawg Review #135 is online, hosted this week on Transgender Workplace Diversity, a blawg devoted to law, politics, and policy issues for H...

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In June, I wrote that under the EEOC's regulations, English-only workplace rules are presumptively illegal unless required by business n...

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In what has become an unintentional series on employers' responsibilities related to workplace harassment, today's installment will ...

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Courtesy of The Washington Post comes this gem: Kevin Colvin, an intern at the Anglo Irish Bank of North America ... e-mailed his manager...

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Another week, another batch of excellent employment law and HR-related posts from the blogosphere. 30 Interview Questions You Can't As...

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When I started this blog six months ago, one of the first posts was on the proliferation of large jury verdicts in age discrimination cases....

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Arbitration clauses and their enforceability is not the most scintillating topic in the annals of employment law. So, I took some (but not ...

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Yesterday I wrote about how to implement an effective complaint procedure to help ward off harassment claims ( A Whopper of a Sex Harassment...

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One of the surest ways for a company to guard against harassment lawsuits is to have in place a reasonable mechanism by which a victim of ha...

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Wal-Mart - So Flexible They Provide a 1-800 Number to Call In Sick.... , from The HR Capitalist , writing about the implications of Wal-Mart...

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35 Republicans joined 200 Democrats yesterday to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007, which falls short of the 280 total vote...

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Bennett v. Saint-Gobain Corp. , decided last week by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, illustrates the importance of timely and thorough inv...

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The United States Supreme Court today held oral argument in Federal Express v. Holowecki. It is the first of six employment cases the Supr...

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In a stunning turn of events that will surely please small business owners, the version of Ohio's new maternity leave regulations that t...

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Last week's win again the lowly Vikings aside, my beloved Philadelphia Eagles are a mess. Pre-season hopes have been dashed by Donovan...

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Call Centers, No-Fault Attendance Policies and Making It Rain EEOC Charges... , from the HR Capitalist , discussing the unlikely effect of c...

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