About six years ago, five players on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) filed a Charge of Discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF). The women claimed that they were paid up to four times less than their male counterparts for doing basically the same job.…
Image Credit: pxfuel.com When many people think of a “motorcycle enthusiast,” they imagine someone in sunglasses, a leather vest, jeans, boots, and lots of facial hair. And while that describes my Aunt Helen, most folks picture someone like the guy in the photo. By the way, I don’t have an…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Earlier this week, the Senate failed to advance a measure designed to promote gender pay equity called the Paycheck Fairness Act. If this sounds familiar, it’s because I told you so. As I predicted, sixty U.S. Senators could not agree to end the debate (e.g., filibuster) on…
Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, one of my favorite HR people in the entire galaxy tweeted a link to this article from the AP. The AP reports that “the white woman who was widely condemned and fired after a videotaped dispute with…
Image by Alexander Ignatov from Pixabay Did you know that each time you pay someone less based on their gender, it is a separate violation of the law? “In other words,” said the Seventh Court of Appeals in this opinion, “a new cause of action for pay discrimination arises every…
pregnant couple by b farias from the Noun Project Yesterday, I told you that a man couldn’t bring a pregnancy bias claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But, a bunch of you actual and aspiring employee-rights attorneys had ideas to prove me wrong. You…you’ve got…
stop hand by b farias from the Noun Project One of the proudest days in an attorney’s legal career is making partner. There are two tiers of partnership in most law firms: (1) non-equity/contract partner; and (2) shareholder/equity partner. Ascending to that second shareholder tier means that you own part…
Photo by lpdesigns form PxHere I’m conflicted. There’s this great age discrimination opinion about which I planned to blog today. It involved an awkward moment at a termination meeting, where the supervisor of a 40-year employee allegedly told him, “Well, you’re kind of getting up there in years, you’re at…
Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay As a best practice, and in advance of having some or all employees return to the workplace, are there ways for an employer to invite employees to request flexibility in work arrangements? That’s the first of six coronavirus-related questions that the EEOC answered yesterday…
License: CC0 Public Domain Hypothetically, if I were to go to a gentlemen’s club, I would expect to see women dancing on stage for money. That’s what goes on there, I’m told. And hypothetically, if I were to go to a gentlemen’s club, and I were to purchase a beverage,…