Archive: June 2013

Having recently settled a nasty harassment case on the day of trial, I read with great interest Molly DiBianca’s post, Why Employers Settle ...

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75 years ago yesterday, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. By establishing a minimum wage, setting an over...

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In its prologue to yesterday Supreme Court opinion in Vance v. Ball. St. Univ. [pdf] , Justice Alito, writing for the five-member majority,...

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In a busy, end-of-term day at the Supreme Court, the Court has issued its decision in University of Tex. S.W. Med. Ctr. v. Nassar . In this ...

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Hot off the presses, the Supreme Court just issued its decision in Vance v. Ball St. Univ. Via SCOTUS Blog, the Court held that “an employe...

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Hopefully, you know that the ADA protects employee medical information as confidential. According to the EEOC : The basic rule is that wit...

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I believe that everyone’s relationship with God (whether you call that deity Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha, or something else) is ...

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News broke yesterday that the American Medical Association voted to re-classify obesity from a condition to a disease . Conventional wisdom...

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Until now, celebrity chef Paula Deen was best known for high cholesterol and high incidence of diabetes. After this week, however, she might...

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It’s hard to believe, but the summer blockbuster—the high budget, slickly marketed, big action, and bigger box-office-return movie that has ...

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An employee who posed in Playgirl magazine is suing his former employer for sexual harassment, reports ABC News . 18 years ago, Daniel Sawk...

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Out of the millions of page-views this blog has received over the six-years of its existence, the most popular post (by an almost three-to-o...

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This coming Wednesday, I’m hosting the Employment Law Blog Carnival. For the uninitiated, a blog carnival a collection of submitted links ar...

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The Am Law Daily reports that the former CFO of Proskauer Rose is claiming that the international law firm violated the Americans with Disa...

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USA Today reports that Whole Foods has suspended two employees for allegedly speaking Spanish to each other on the job. For its part, Whole...

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Do you know what to do if you believe an employee was sexually harassed, but refuses to provide any details or other information? Do you hav...

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A couple of months ago, I suggested that there was hope for a friendship between the NLRB and me, following the Board’s pronouncement that m...

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Some of my fondest memories as a child were watching The Price is Right with my Grandmom Annie on the TV in her basement. We’d watch Family ...

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According to a survey released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project , 61 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Employe...

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One of the key analyses in any discrimination lawsuit is whether the plaintiff is “similarly situated” to those whom he or she claims the em...

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I’ve written before about the dangers of employers accessing employee’s social media accounts without appropriate controls in place. One of...

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Last February I reported on EEOC v. Houston Funding , in which a Texas district court held that an employee, fired after asking to pump brea...

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