Archive: June 2015

Last night, on the Huffington Post , President Obama blogged his intentions to announce long-awaited new overtime regulations later today. ...

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Friday was certainly exciting. SCOTUS surprised everyone by releasing Obergefell v. Hodges [pdf] a day earlier than expected. In case you...

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Special bonus on this fine summer Friday. If you missed my appearance on Stossel two weeks ago, Fox Business has posted the episode on its ...

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Next time you think you had a bad day at work, remember, at least you weren’t hit with an axe. From Mediate : During last Sunday’s broad...

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Diana Retuerto worked in the office of Berea Moving & Storage. She claimed that the company’s owner, Willard Melton, made “verbal advanc...

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I’ve always said that employment law is a dirty job, and this case more than proves my point. Atlas Logistics Group, a Georgia food-storag...

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By now, you’ve likely heard of the furor over the Confederate flag following the horrific church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina. You...

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In March, I reported on a lawsuit filed against Uber by a class of its drivers claiming that the taxi company mis-classified them as indepen...

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I love school. I mean, I loved school when I was a student, but now that I work, and my wife works, I really love when my kids are in school...

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Does Title VII permit an employer to staff its stores based on the racial composition of its customers? That’s the question at the heart of ...

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Earlier this week, FedEx announced that it would pay an astounding $228 million to settle claims that it had misclassified drivers as indep...

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It is likely that when Ohioans go the polls this November, we will have the opportunity to vote on whether to amend our state constitution t...

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The Huffington Post asks the following question: Laws Protect Certain Classes from Workplace Abuse: Why Not Everyone? It’s a valid quest...

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What are you doing at 8 pm tonight? I know what I’m doing. I’ll be watching Stossel on Fox Business Network . I was in New York on Tuesday t...

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A software engineer rejected for a job by GoDaddy is suing the company for discrimination. Why does he believe that the company discriminate...

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Racism at work cannot be tolerated, right? So here’s a quick quiz. Assume you hear a white employee yelling the following at black co-worker...

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Later this morning, I’ll board a flight for New York City to tape a segment for John Stossel’s Fox News show , to air Friday at 8 pm on Fox ...

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You likely know that the ADA protects employees from discrimination “because of the known disability of an individual with whom the qualifie...

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It’s been awhile since I’ve updated everyone on when and where you can hear me speak, and I’ve got a bunch coming up in the next few weeks. ...

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It’s been a big week for the rights of transgender Americans. Caitlyn (née Bruce) Jenner had her coming out party on the cover of Vanity F...

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One of the most difficult things to do is prove a negative. Yet, this is exactly the problem that employers face when defending wage and h...

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Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that an employer violates Title VII’s religious accommodation requirements if the need for ...

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It’s hard to imagine that in the eight-plus years I’ve written this blog, there is any area of employment law that on which I have not yet t...

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