Those who’ve been reading for awhile know that I grew up in Philadelphia. I am a proud survivor of the Philadelphia public school system. Wh...

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File this story under just because the Employee Free Choice Act is temporarily dead does not mean that the Obama administration cannot impac...

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This morning, Judy Greenwald at Business Insurance has an article discussing the recent spate of anti-bullying laws making the rounds in va...

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I love vacationing on Hilton Head Island. The beaches are pristine, the seafood’s fresh, the bars and grocery stores stock Yuengling (wh...

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A few weeks ago I discussed the discovery of social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc.) in employment cases. EEOC v. Simply Storage Managemen...

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Pattison v. W.W. Grainger, Inc. [pdf] , decided last week by the Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals, illustrates the need to analyze, confirm...

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At least according to Ohio’s 2nd appellate district in Davenport v. Big Brothers & Big Sisters of the Greater Miami Valley, Inc. (6/4/1...

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I’m guessing that when Wal-Mart hired a prominent law firm to examine gender disparities in pay and promotions, along with its vulnerability...

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Do you know what to do when your company gets sued in an employment case? “Resist the D.I.Y. urge and lawyer-up as soon as you find out you’...

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Viscerally, I enjoyed reading about the EEOC getting tagged for $4.5 million in sanctions. Yet, I can’t help but see the cloud in this silve...

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Take heed—the mere dropping of f-bombs in the workplace will not subject you to harassment liability: Warning – vulgar language ahead: 11t...

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Last Wednesday, Sarah Needleman at the Wall Street Journal ran a story on New York’s efforts to pass workplace bullying legislation . For my...

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Surprise. "What I'm Reading..." is running one day early this week. Tomorrow is a much needed off-day for me, which will be fo...

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Last September I asked whether “fat” was the new protected class . A lawsuit filed earlier this week in Michigan seeks to answer this questi...

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I’ve long preached that employees should not enjoy an expectation of privacy in information they voluntarily place on the Internet, includin...

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Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC   is considered the standard-bearer of lawyers’ and their clients’ responsibilities to preserve electronic infor...

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Another week, and another compilation of the best of the labor & employment blawgosphere that I didn’t write. Is Bad Taste the...

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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...

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I spent the summer between my junior and senior years of high school bussing tables in a nursing home dining room. Not the world’s most glam...

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Sometimes, employers are blindsided by a lawsuit. The first you might learn that an ex-employee is suing you is when you are served the comp...

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