True confession—I do not like Halloween. I never did. As a kid, I tolerated the holiday because it brought a bounty of candy. As I aged out ...

It’s no secret that health insurance costs are out of control. To help combat this surge, many employers have turned to biometric testing fo...

I once handled a wage-and-hour investigation in which the employer, before retaining my services, hired an HR consultant to help classify it...

Last week, the The U.S. Office of Special Counsel announced a landmark determination that the Department of the Army engaged in “frequent, p...

In one of the better earlier episodes of The Office , the Assistant to the Regional Manager, Dwight Schrute, thinks that one of his co-work...

Photo by Jenny Gildea Photography (who I cannot more highly recommend). Here’s what I read this week: Discrimination “How Can We Accom...

Ruby Blackmon claimed that for a ten-month period, her second-level manager inappropriately stared at her breasts three to 10 times per day,...

The honest-belief rule is one of most effective shields available to employers in discrimination cases: As long as an employer has an ho...

A federal jury awarded nearly $1 million to a former police officer, allegedly fired after sleeping on duty. According to the McPherson Sen...

Last year I reported on the possibility that Internet use could become an ADA-protected disability. Now, we have one of the first documente...

I’ve been blogging for more than seven years, and I’ve never had opposing counsel try to impeach one of my clients with something I’ve writt...

If you employ people at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Frontier Airlines in Cleveland, or Kent State University, congratulations, you’re among t...

While the law of noncompete agreements is state-specific, generally you need three things to enforce such an agreement: reasonableness as t...

The ABA Journal (hat tip: Overlawyered ) is reporting that the EEOC is investigating whether several well-known companies are violating the...

Ken Adams, writing at his always insightful blog, Adams on Contract Drafting , comments on the use of terms such as “faithfully” to describe...

The federal court that recently announced its intent to dismiss the EEOC v. CVS severance agreement case has finally issued its written op...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in its first employment law case of this term, Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk . To w...

The Employment Matters blog recently posted about a 10th Circuit case that upheld the dismissal of a sex discrimination case that alleged s...

You can’t escape the fact that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month . Pink is everywhere. Women are wearing pink everything. Buildings a...

Have you ever refused to eat at fast food sandwich because the pickles were off? Not “off” as in omitted, or “off” as in taste, but “off” as...

What’s it like to work for the richest and most admired company in the world? Boy Genius Report writes that being an Apple employee might n...

It’s day one for the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014-2015 term, and the Court has already made big employment law news. The Court has accepted th...

It’s no secret that the NLRB is waging a war against facially neutral employment policies. You can add “no loitering” rules to its list of v...

The National Law Journal reports that Texas Roadhouse has sued the EEOC, demanding background on the agency’s prior age discrimination suit...