Archive: October 2025

Target recently agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a class action by warehouse employees claiming they weren't paid for all their work...

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A federal-court jury just hit a pair of New York hotels (and their owners) with a $1.65 million compensatory and $2 million punitive damages...

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Wells Fargo is reportedly settling a class-action lawsuit alleging it held phony job interviews to make its diversity, equity, and inclusio...

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On this week's episode of The Norah and Dad Show, Norah and I play a few rounds of "Am I the A--hole" — inspired by my purge o...

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Let's play one of my favorite games: correct the press. The Issue: unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA. Cliff Kapla...

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Imagine this. It's your employee's second day on the job. He climb into the cab of truck you've assigned him assigned to operate...

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Let's talk about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agency charged with enforcing our nation's bedrock employ...

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* Image by  Nathaniel Currier , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Here's what I read this week that you should read, too.

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Politico just published leaked messages from Young Republican leaders — future GOP operatives, appointees, and elected officials, as well a...

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This one's for every business who's ever said to a sick or injured worker, "We can't bring you back until you're 100%....

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A federal judge recently granted summary judgment to Verizon Wireless after it fired a Black employee who twice used the n-word in the stor...

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For years, I've told anyone who would listen that Ohio has the best beer in America. Now, we have the proof. At this year's Great Am...

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Every now and then, I like to take this space and go hyper-local, to highlight something that makes my corner of Northeast Ohio special. Tod...

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If you're an employer disciplining or terminating an employee for workplace misconduct, you don't have to prove the employee did the...

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Until today, I had never heard the phrase, "gratuity riot." I bet you hadn't either. It allegedly happened in Nashville, where...

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Every year I think I've hit rock bottom when it comes to my "Worst Employer" list. And every year, someone picks up a jackhamm...

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The Department of Labor just released a new Wage & Hour opinion letter on one of those topics that always makes restaurant and hospital...

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What's wrong with kindness? When I was a kid, I was taught: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me....

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"Are you really that religious?" is the wrong question for any employer to ask of an employee seeking a religious accommodation. T...

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If Pete Hegseth were your CEO, I'd be drafting your EEOC position statement tomorrow. You're not running the Department of War (née ...

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