Archive: September 2017

Norah has a small dry-erase calendar hanging inside her middle-school locker. And on that calendar, in the Friday block, she scribbled the...

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If my 13-year-old self, sneaking off into the woods at sleep-away camp to listen to my bootlegged cassette of The Wall , could see me now… ...

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“As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.…” Those were the words of then nominee Donald J. ...

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Photo: speedpropertybuyers.co.uk/ “You’re FIRED!” No, this post is not about a recent Trump rally; it’s about the end game to Severso...

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It has been 53 years since Congress banned racial discrimination in employment. You’d think by now that all employers would know that you ...

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Over the past four days, I have taken A LOT of heat online for allowing my 11-year-old daughter to perform on stage with Roger Waters . ...

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I had a whole post written about Norah’s punk show last weekend, and how her performance awed me. Then this happened yesterday. At 2:54 ...

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Two stories this week caught my attention: EEOC Sues Malcolm S. Gerald & Associates for Sexual Orientation Discrimination ; and Is ...

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Just when I think I’ve hit rock bottom with my survey of the year’s worst employers… The EEOC reports that it has sued an Illinois IHOP ...

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When you litigate, you’re losing. This is an odd statement for a litigator to make. But it’s true.

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Your 19th nominee for the worst employer of 2017 is a Jacksonville, Florida, Pizza Hut franchisee that threatened its employees if they sk...

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Genetics is a funny thing. We have no idea where Norah got her musical chops, as neither my wife nor I are anywhere close to what one woul...

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Today, a joke. “How is the National Labor Relations Board like the weather?” “I don’t know, Jon, how?” “If you don’t like eit...

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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a six-figure verdict in favor of a Stephanie Hicks, a former narcotics task force investigat...

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Do you require medical exams of applicants before they start working for you? If so, do you know the rules that the ADA requires you foll...

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Consider the following allegations of sexual harassment levied by Pamela Daniels, a secretary in the Pike County Prosecutor’s Office, agai...

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I’m not sure why, but when I pictured having a daughter I always imagined that she’d be into and frilly things, Barbies, and ballet. I gue...

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I’ve never written about the time I stripped naked in front of my entire law school … until now. Well, here we go.

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Should new dad’s receive the same amount of time off from work to bond with their newly born child as do women? That is the question at th...

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Late last week , a federal judge in Texas struck down the Department of Labor’s attempt to raise the salary test for the Fair Labor Standa...

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My 11 year old daughter is a unique soul. She’s always been older and wiser than her years suggest, but I don’t think I’ve ever appreciate...

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