The purpose of our workplace discrimination laws is to ensure that all employees are treated equally, right? Maybe … but maybe not.
Next term, the Supreme Court will hear the appeal of Marlean Ames, a straight woman who sued the Department of Youth Services for sex discrimination under Title VII. She claimed she was discriminated
“Are you on the dessert menu? Because you look yummy.”
First, ick!
Secondly, these are the types of comments to which customers expose servers in the hospitality industry on the regular. In fact, the restaurant industry has more sexual harassment claims than any other industry, with as many as 90% of women report experiencing some
Do you remember the episode of The Office where Dwight stakes out Oscar’s house to see if he’s faking a medical condition and committing insurance fraud?
Believe it or not, something similar is happening in real life at Tesla. The managing director and human resources director of one of its foreign gigafactories recently targeted 30
Here are 25 million reasons to be careful when poaching your competitor’s key employees.
In a recent federal case, medical device company Cynosure snagged a $25M jury verdict after its rival, Reveal Lasers, and two former sales managers were found to have violated noncompete, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure agreements.
The result? A hefty price tag for
“We were forced to work with ‘Nazi sympathizers’ who — despite their open and obvious beliefs and frequent racist, antisemitic, xenophobic, and anti-LGBTQ+ comments and discriminatory acts — were retained and even promoted to management.”
Those are the claims of 7 current and former employees of a rehab center owned by Executive Recovery Group.
Derek Blockhus, a United Airlines flight attendant, was fired after sending threatening texts and voicemails to a coworker and former romantic partner.
His messages included threats like, “You do realize, your dad and all his friends are going to get nudes of you?” and “The situation will get ugly” if she didn’t respond. Blockhus sued,
The EEOC has sued Navitas Systems for its “100% healed” return to work policy.
The case involves the company’s former division controller, who suffered a severe rotator cuff injury and fractured wrist. His doctor cleared him to return to work with restrictions, limiting the use of his injured left arm. Confident that he could still
