More on anticipatory pregnancy discrimination
Every so often, I write a post that rankles some feathers. Yesterday’s was one such post. Recall that yesterday I discussed a case in which...
Beware the “anticipatory pregnancy” claim
By Jon Hyman
In Cadenas v. Butterfield Health Care II, Inc. (N.D. Ill. 7/15/14) , a federal court asked the question of whether an employer could termin...
LinkedIn’s $6M FLSA settlement provides a good lesson to employers (updated)
By Jon Hyman
LinkedIn will pay nearly $6 million in back pay and liquidated damages to 359 current and former employees following a Department of Labor i...
You cannot fire an employee who asks for time off for his pregnant wife's medical appointment
By Jon Hyman
One of the very first posts I ever wrote on this blog, all the back in May of 2007, detailed the EEOC’s then-recent publication of enforcem...
WIRTW #330 (the “be careful what you post” edition)
By Jon Hyman
You’d think that people would know better than to post a private conversations with one’s attorney over a public social network. Kaiser v. G...