Look, no one forced you to read this. Or click on that video. Hey, happy Thursday to you from The Employer Handbook. Now, with 100% fewer penis trees. (Yeah, sorry about that. If you got yesterday’s post via email, the free stock image I used — from a database of…
Now, that would be some serious retaliation! Where do I find these cases? The Illuminati I have my sources. In Elmore v. WMATA (opinion here), the plaintiff, a K-9 police officer, injured her neck and back after a bunch of dog attacks. She claimed that the WMATA refused to call off…
Yesterday, I blogged here about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s conditional veto of a bill which was intended to level the wage gap between men and women performing substantially similar jobs in the Garden State. Serendipity. Last night, I came across this survey from CareerBuilder, which examined the pay disparity…
There’s an equal-pay-for-women movement going on nationwide. Maybe you’ve heard of it. The most-commonly cited statistic is that full-time American female employees are paid only 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. Locally, here in New Jersey (technically, I’m typing this post in Cherry Hill, NJ in a diner located…
Around this time last year, I blogged here about Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers. According to OSHA, “all employees should be permitted to use the facilities that correspond to their gender identity.” And, it’s up to the employee to determine for him- or herself “the most appropriate and safest…
Most of you have either seen or heard about Mean Tweets from Jimmy Kimmel Live! That’s the segment where celebrities stand in front of the camera with smartphone in hand awkwardly reading the snippets of vitriol that Twitters users can spew about them in 140 characters or less. The celebrities have a…
Last week, five players on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team filed a Charge of Discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the U.S. Soccer Federation. The women claim that they paid up to four times less than their male counterparts for doing basically the same job. A reader of this…
So, do we have a gender pay gap? Or is it a myth? Well, first let’s talk about this study. Recently, “more than 3,200 workers and more than 220 human resource managers in the private sector across industries participated in a nationwide survey, conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of…
YASSSSS!!!! Oh, thank you blogging gods for this generous clusterfunked bounty. Please accept this offering from your humble minion. Hummina Hummina Hummina Oh, where to begin. Where. To. Begin. Well, how about some facts from Allen v. TV One, LLC. Plaintiff began working as the Director of Talent Relations and Casting…
Unless, of course, you’re filling server positions at Hooters. But, I’m not going there today. Besides, I went there yesterday. With my kids. Good wings. Good times. Instead, the genesis of today’s post is an article I read last by Stan Parker in Law360. Mr. Parker reports that the U.S.…