I fully embrace the irony of a local news broadcast holding me  out as the expert on hair discrimination. 👨🏻‍🦲 Irony notwithstanding, h...

According to a recent survey conducted by SHRM [pdf] , American workers cannot hide from politics at work. 42% of U.S. employees say they ...

For lack of more artful description, Ohio’s employment discrimination law is an awful mess. Among other problems, it exposes employers t...

In Thurman v. Daimler Chrysler , the 6th Circuit agreed that the following agreement between an employer and an employee shortening the ti...

Has an employer violated the law if it docks the pay of an employee who skips a speech being given by Donald Trump in their place of emplo...

Trigger warning: today’s post is not for everyone. If, however, you are offended by what I am about to say, then today’s post is specifica...

There are some employment policies that you can get away with not having. An anti-discrimination policy is not one of them. In Hubbell v...

Different type of stripper Meet Brandi Campbell, a stripper and self-proclaimed labor activist for other strippers nationwide. She main...

When a client calls me to ask for advice about firing an employee, the first question I always ask is, “What does the employee’s file look...

Over at her employee-rights blog, Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home , attorney  Donna Ballman asks, “ Is is time to terminate at-will emplo...

If the U.S. Supreme Court decided an employment case, I’m contractually obligated to blog about it. Yet,  Ford Bend County, Texas v. Davi...

With a couple of important exceptions, an employer can require that employees be up to date on their vaccinations. The exceptions?    ...

A bank fires two female employees for violating its vault-access policy. They claim sex discrimination, pointing their fingers squarely a...

Yesterday, the EEOC released its charge statistics for 2018 . There are three big things you need to know.

As the debate over the meaning of "joint employer" continues to rage at both the NLRB and in the federal courts , Ohio has jumped...

A fast-food restaurant fired a recently hired employee after its manager learned she was pregnant. How do we know this was the manager'...

Pop quiz: Can an employer ignore harassment or other discriminatory behavior directed at employees by non-employees? If your answer is &q...

By ABC TV [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I am not a tattoo person. Yet, a whole lot of people are. And the numbers are increas...

It is lawful for an employer to fire an employee who complains that his workplace is too diverse ?  According to the NLRB, the answer, ...

Can an employee, terminated for refusing to submit to a “reasonable suspicion” drug test, sue the employer for discrimination? According...