In the history of this blog's 3,603 posts, I've never written about the False Claim Act. If you've been waiting with bated breat...

Family businesses are difficult to manage. They become even more difficult when the owners are spouses, and an employee accuses one of sex...

“Hey pussy … I’m going to get you for what you did.” Ordinarily, if one employee confronts another employee with a threat like the one ...

After being harassed by co-workers, Paul Ellis took to Facebook to air his grievances publicly. Among his comments was one that could be p...

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...

Laws protecting whistle-blowers from retaliation have a long and storied history in the annals of American law. Indeed, according to  The...

Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech…. So reads the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Take note that it does...

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

Suppose one of your employees believes that she was discriminated against because of her protected class. She files a charge of discriminati...

"See something, say something" is one of the most important elements of any workplace intent on stopping harassment. Employers are...

Temporary employees do not leave their legal rights at your door. In fact, they enjoy the same rights as your permanent employees. Conside...

Photo by  Avalon_Mists on Pixabay And every time I scratch my nails Down someone else’s back I hope you feel it Alanis Morisette  ...

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

It’s a situation that plays out all too often. An employee emails a slew of documents to a personal email address, or drags them into a pe...

Miriam Valle worked as a ticket agent for Frank Martz Coach Company, until it fired her on January 27, 2016. Two weeks prior, she had adv...

Suppose an employee files an EEOC charge of discrimination against you. And, further suppose that during the investigation, you receive a...

The EEOC has sued an Atlanta cemetery company for firing an employee the day after the agency interviewed her as part of an on-going inves...

Yesterday’s post discussing  Arias v. Raimondo as the worst employment-law decision of 2017 was way  more controversial than I imagined....

I’ll be vacationing in California with my family the first two week of July. After reading the 9th Circuit’s decision in  Arias v. Raimond...

It’s been six year since the Supreme Court decided, in Staub v. Proctor Hosp. , which validated the “cat’s paw” as a valid theory of liabi...