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Showing posts with label family responsibility discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family responsibility discrimination. Show all posts
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Just because “caregiver” isn’t a protected class doesn’t mean it isn’t sometimes illegal to discriminate against them

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No matter how many times you read our federal workplace anti-discrimination laws, you won't find the word "caregiver" among th...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

ABA President fixes the victim-blaming problem the ABA Journal created for working moms

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Yesterday , I was highly critical of the ABA Journal for publishing a column that victim-blamed working moms for their lack of advancement ...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

The American Bar Association must never again victim-blame working-parent attorneys for the discrimination they suffer

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The ABA Journal recently published a column by Susan Smith Blakely , a career counselor and former law-firm partner, that does a gross injus...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Parental discrimination claims pose big risks for employers

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According to workingmother.com, More Parents Than Ever Are Suing Their Employers for Discrimination—and Winning . The article is right — ...
Monday, June 18, 2018

“Incredibles 2” is an incredible movie about working parenthood

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Being a working parent is all about sacrifice. Not always being there for the small stuff. It might mean missing your daughter’s first date....
Monday, November 6, 2017

Parental status discrimination is NOT a thing. But should it be?

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I received some great feedback  on LinkedIn on last week’s  post on New York’s new paid family leave law . That law grants paid leave for...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Ohio appellate decision sends working moms back to the 1950s

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Employee claims her supervisor advised her not to apply for an open position because, “she is a single mother with kids and if [she] had to ...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Beware eldercare-discrimination claims

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One of the very first posts I ever wrote on this blog, almost nine years ago to the day, discussed the EEOC’s then-new Enforcement Guidan...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Leave policies should apply equally across genders … but must they?

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The New York Times reports that CNN has settled an EEOC charge brought by a former correspondent, who claimed that the company’s paid paren...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Gender equality is dead; long live gender equality!

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http://flic.kr/p/dLGTi8 I rarely write about active cases I’m handling. In fact, I can only think of one other time that I was mad enou...
Monday, September 24, 2012

The one question I would ask President Obama during the debates

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Four years ago, Dan Schwartz, on his Connecticut Employment Law Blog, answered the following question: What One Question Regarding Labor &a...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Let’s try not to over-react to the breastfeeding discrimination case

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Last month, I wrote that employers denying lactation rights to employees was not problem that needed remedial legislation. Wouldn’t you kno...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

The word of the day is “systemic”

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The EEOC has published its draft strategic plan for fiscal years 2012 – 2016 . A quick Ctrl-F for the word “systemic” reveals 16 different h...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Federal court takes EEOC to task for its work-life-balance agenda

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In a 64-page opinion, a New York federal court issued a scathing indictment of the EEOC’s sue-first-ask-questions-later litigation tactics. ...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

ADA’s associational disability provision does not shield poor-performing employees from termination

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Eugene Stansberry, who sued his former employer for disability discrimination, is not disabled. His wife, however, is, suffering from Polyar...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Quarter-billion dollar verdict in sex discrimination suit highlights risks of family responsibility discrimination

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In October 2009, Working Mother magazine named Novartis Pharmaceuticals one of its 100 best companies for working families , lauding its fl...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Caregiver discrimination, three years later

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It’s been nearly three years since the EEOC published its Enforcement Guidance on Unlawful Disparate Treatment of Workers with Caregiving R...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Proposed law would grant working moms breastfeeding rights

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Last year, I wrote that even though Ohio has one of the country’s most liberal breastfeeding laws, it likely does not protect a mom’s workpl...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

EEOC releases “Employer Best Practices for Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities”

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It’s been almost two years since the EEOC released its Enforcement Guidance on Unlawful Disparate Treatment of Workers with Caregiving Respo...
Monday, January 5, 2009

A few predictions for 2009

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Since I ended 2008 with a look back at the top stories of the past year , I thought I’d start 2009 with a look forward at what to expect in ...