Archive: September 2014

It seems to be common sense that if the decision maker accused of a discriminatory adverse action is also the individual responsible for ear...

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Upon attempting to return from a medical leave of absence, an employee requests the following accommodations: an ergonomic chair, adjusted l...

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According to a recent Harris Poll , men are nearly twice as likely to lose their smartphones than women (46% to 27%). Moreover, the younger ...

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Since today is both Rosh Hashanah and a work day, I though it appropriate to go deep into the archives, all the way to (yikes) 2008, to repr...

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Last June, the EEOC sued BMW , claiming that the company’s policy of automatically disqualifying from employment anyone with certain felony ...

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We know it’s legal to fire an employee for drinking on the job , but what about an employee who drinks off the job ? Can an employer legally...

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In case you missed it last Friday , a federal judge dismissed the EEOC’s lawsuit against CVS, which had challenged as retaliatory various ga...

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The Chicago  Tribune is reporting that U.S. District Judge John Darrah has granted CVS’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by EEOC, which c...

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When you were in school, did you ever fudge the margins, or the font, or the line-spacing to fit your term paper within the confines of a te...

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Wilson v. Chipotle Mexican Grille (6th Cir. 9/17/15) [pdf] is an unusual or distinct case, yet it teaches employers an important lesson abo...

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One of the benefits of my new firm is that it exposes me to new practice areas. Case-in-point, workers’ comp, which I could not previously o...

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The EEOC has sued Minnesota-based Cummins Power Generation for requiring an employee to submit to an alleged overly broad fitness-for-duty e...

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Those of you who’ve been reading for awhile know that my 8-year-old daughter plays in a rock band. “Band” might be too ambitious of a term. ...

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If you’re a start-up in the business of selling online dating through an iPhone app, its probably best that one of your executives not be ac...

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My kids are growing up. For example, we’ve now graduated from me having to wake them up in the morning for school and helping my son get dre...

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On Monday, the NFL indefinitely suspended, and the Baltimore Ravens terminated the contract of, Ray Rice after TMZ published security camer...

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Yesterday brought us two different 6th Circuit cases upholding dismissals of lawsuits in which the employees alleged that their terminations...

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In Alexander v. FedEx Ground Package Sys. (8/27/14) , the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that FedEx’s delivery drivers are employee...

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“What is Cutetallica ”, you ask? It’s my daughter’s latest School of Rock band (earlier, here and here ). What else could it be? If you’r...

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In April, the 6th Circuit issued a decision that recognized telecommuting as a possible reasonable accommodation under the ADA. Work-life b...

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Forgive them, for they know not what they do. Over on LinkedIn, my friend (and author-extraordinaire of the Connecticut Employment Law Blo...

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Earlier this summer, I reported on Hauser v. City of Dayton , which I hoped would answer the question of whether Ohio’s employment discrimin...

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