Raef Lawson worked as a restaurant delivery driver for Grubhub for four months in late 2015 and early 2016. He claimed that the company mi...

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I listened with great interest to the latest episode of the Hostile Work Environment podcast , which featured as its guest my good friend,...

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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about religion. Or, rather, what it means to be religious. I am not religious. Or at least not in the o...

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Today’s goal: Strive to be the type of employer that engenders this type of loyalty in your employees. Here’s what I read this week: ...

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Dear Jon,  I resigned from my last job amid allegations of sexually inappropriate misconduct. The allegations became public. Even tho...

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The policy-making body of the American Bar Association has adopted a formal resolution that urges legal employers to prohibit, prevent, an...

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The 4th nominee for the worst employer of 2018 is the Humane Society of the United States, which last month voted to retain its CEO despit...

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Last night, my Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl. Today, the FMLA turns 25. Over the past 25 years, it is estimated that employee...

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As a dad of a woman (girl) who may someday live in the music industry, I read with great interest the comments of Recording Academy Preside...

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United Airlines has blocked a customer from bringing her “emotional support peacock” on a recent flight. Truth be told, whether it was a...

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Every now and again it’s worth pulling a post out of the archives for a rerun. Today, I look all the way back to April 15, 2008, for on...

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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...

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How do you discuss sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct with your friends and colleagues? Saturday Night Live, in one of its most...

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Last Friday, Fake ID played to a packed house at The Symposium, an old school rock club in Lakewood, Ohio. And, they absolutely brought dow...

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Wile E. Coyote. Forever chasing the Roadrunner. Always ending up falling off a cliff or crushed under a giant boulder. Noncompete litigati...

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I’m typing today’s post from my bed, where I convalesce with the flu. Since I’m at home with the flu, I thought it worthwhile to discuss t...

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Image by Sven via Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month, Walmart announced sweeping additions to how it compensates its employees.

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The third nominee for the Worst Employer of 2018 might be the creepiest I’ve shared yet. From the Tampa Bay Times (c/o the ABA Journal...

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Mental illness, especially among our youth, is an issue about which we do not pay nearly enough attention (to wit: this week’s suicide of ...

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

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I am declaring today New Year’s Day 2.0. To put it bluntly, the first 16 days of 2018 sucked. I need a do over. This has been my 2018 ...

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Are you tired of seeing your Facebook feed littered with the results of your friends’ quizzes, with titles such as, “Which Game of Thrones...

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A date appropriate reminder that our nation works better when our leaders seek to unite rather than divide. We should strive to tak...

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It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a family rock ‘n’ roll update, so here it goes. If you’re in the Cleveland area, you have three chances...

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about death. These past few days have been the first time I’ve had to deal with it on a family level as ...

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There are lots of correct ways to respond to employee complaints. Handcuffing and arresting the employee is most definitely NOT one of...

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We are incredibly sad today, as my mother-in-law passed away. Norah told me that her head was swimming and that she couldn’t process ...

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Amber Bridges, the former Lead Staff in the City of Indianapolis Magistrate Court, claims that her efforts to ease employees’ complaints a...

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When one of your biggest stars loses his high-profile job in one the year’s biggest sexual harassment scandals, how to you react? With a...

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The inaugural nominee for the Worst Employer of 2018  is a doozy. I bring you ( courtesy of the New York Post ) the holy harasser.

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For the past five Noels, I’ve concluded my posting year with “The 12 Days of Employment Law Christmas.” As this has become a year-end tradit...

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The day has finally arrived. It’s time to announce the Worst Employer of 2017. To remind you, we had three finalists in contention for t...

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So much of the news lately has focused on sexual harassment, that it’s easy for one to forget that other types of harassment also exist. ...

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Last week, the NLRB started making good on its promise to roll back some of its more controversial Obama-era reforms—its assault on employ...

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As you’ll see below, sexual harassment has become such a big story that it’s (sadly) earned it’s own headlining category in my weekly recap...

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If you are a federal contractor or subcontractor, the letters O-F-C-C-P hold real meaning for you. They stand for Office of Federal Contr...

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If you have not yet voted for the Worst Employer of 2017 , your time is running very short. The polls close at 11 pm today. Who is your ...

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Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting, along with four other “top employment law bloggers” (at least according to Corporate Counsel ),...

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Last week, Fox News host Laura Ingraham  asked if the #MeToo movement is ruining the office holiday party. “Is the #MeToo movement becom...

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One of my absolute favorite things to do is taking Norah to concerts.  Wednesday, I’m taking her to a punk show. SWMRS / The Interrupt...

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Have you cast your vote yet for the Worst Employer of 2017 ? Whether your answer is “Yes,” “Not yet”, or “What are you talking about,” I...

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Have you started thinking about your New Year’s resolutions for 2018? The NLRB’s newly minted general counsel, Peter Robb , has, and emp...

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Much of the news lately has focused on how we, as employers, can do a better job training and otherwise educating our employees about workpl...

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Last week, the New York Times ran an Op-Ed titled, Boss Grab Your Breasts? That’s Not (Legally) Harassment . It argues that our lax sexu...

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Accused of sexual harassment? Don’t know what to do? Thankfully, the Celebrity Perv Apology Generator   has you covered. Example? ...

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Last night we went to dinner at our favorite local restaurant . Donovan ordered his favorite dish—gluten free penne alfredo. He is not a g...

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I started this journey all the way back on January 12, 2017, in a post discussing an employer who fired a man absent while attending his son...

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Today is Giving Tuesday , a global day of charitable giving, which symbolically kicks off the season for those who choose to focus their h...

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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...

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Today is your last day to vote in the preliminary round for the “Worst Employer of 2017.” Voting in the cut-down round has been robust, ...

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“Dad, can you take me to the craft store?” My 6th grader has a diorama due the day after Thanksgiving break. So, off Norah and I we...

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Jason Shann worked as the Enterprise Desktop Management Team Leader in the IT department of Atlantic Health System. He also suffered from t...

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A few weeks ago I listed my five favorite podcasts, and asked you for some suggestions to add to my listening queue. Had I waited a month...

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about stress, and the anxiety it can, and often does, cause. Stress induced anxiety can cripple someone...

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Yesterday afternoon, I received the following email from a co-worker: To: Office All Subject: Pardon the office all email  I am sure yo...

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Do you enjoy webinars? Do you have an affinity for six of the internet’s top labor and employment law and HR bloggers coming together to p...

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www.pinterest.com/pin/202802789447314070 Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis CK, Mark Halperin, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes … the list ...

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What’s your happy place? Where do you take your mind when you’re just having a bad day, when you have to deal with that employee, whe...

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Photo by Taber Andrew Bain Licensed via Creative Commons  Earlier this month, American Airlines agreed to pay $9.8 million to settle a...

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There is a right way to quit a job, and a wrong way to quit a job. Last week, a Twitter employee demonstrated the worst of the latter.

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Have your heard about Juli Briskman, the biker that flipped the finger to Trump’s passing motorcade? https://twitter.com/julibriskman ...

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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...

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I HATE being late. It’s my number one pet peeve. It drives my family completely nuts. If I’m even one minute late for anything, I am a me...

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My two working-parent family It is freakin’ hard to be a working parent in America. It is even more difficult when both mom and dad work...

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The day for which you’ve waited all year has finally arrived. It’s your opportunity to help pick the Worst Employer of 2017 .

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An Apple employee lost his job this week after his daughter, Brooke Amelia Peterson, posted a YouTube video of her dad’s brand new, unrelea...

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If the Equifax data breach hasn’t scared your company into cybersecurity compliance, Ohio lawmakers are considering dangling you a complianc...

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It’s been a couple of weeks since baseball’s evil empire, otherwise known as the New York Yankees, knocked my beloved Cleveland Indians out ...

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Yesterday, I read When is an Employee Issue a Legal Issue (and When Is it HR)? , written by Dan Schwartz on his always excellent Connect...

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According to a recent survey , 57% of American employees admit to swearing at work. (To me, that seems low. Also, count me in the “yes” co...

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Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Bill O’Reilly paid $32 million to settle a claim of sexual harassment brought against hi...

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As we wind down the year toward voting to name the first annual “Worst Employer of the Year,” I thought I had all bases covered. Then I re...

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