Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/pregnant-woman-pregnancy-mother-735393/) I feel awful about the Red Sox eliminating the Yankees not blogging for you on Wednesday. So, today you get a double shot of The Employer Handbook. This one is about pregnancy discrimination. Specifically, a recent federal court opinion where the issue was whether an employer…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/bookcase-law-firm-attorney-335850/) I don’t know how else to describe it. So, I’m going to quote from the EEOC’s press release, but I’ll conceal the name of the law firm. The law firm that paid $30,000 to settle with the EEOC: The [] Law Firm has agreed to pay $30,000 and…
Even Kramerica Industries knows better than that. This company did WHAT?!? One California employer, not so much apparently. That is, in September 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed this complaint in CA federal court against a local orchid grower. And that complaint contains some allegations that’ll make your head spin.…
If what the EEOC alleges in this lawsuit is true, then this employer is stupider than stupid-stupid. From the EEOC’s press release: Really?!! An actual policy which requires an employee to voluntarily resign or be discharged once she is six months pregnant. More from the EEOC press release: “Federal law…
Austin Powers, Eric? Yeah, sorry. I’m all tapped out after yesterday’s fantasy football spectacular. So, pregnancy-discrimination, eh? The facts in Estate of Andrew Tyler Pennington v. Southern Motion, Inc. (opinion here) are rather straightforward. Mr. Pennington worked for Southern Motion, Inc. According to the plaintiff, shortly before Mr. Pennington’s employment with Southern Motion…
The rules of the playground apply with equal force at work. Except, no cooties. [For my email subscribers, sorry about the deluge of posts today. We had some technical difficulties with the email feed over the past two days. I apologize. But, you guys get what you pay for.] Yesterday,…
Wait. That came out wrong. What I meant to say was… The Pregnancy Discrimination Act forbids employers from requiring that pregnant employees leave work. Even if it’s because the employer honestly believes that workplace conditions could place the health of mom or fetus at risk. Yes, really. Indeed, the U.S. Equal…
On average, organizations gave mothers 41 paid days of maternity leave, compared with 22 paid days of paternity leave for fathers. That statistic comes from 2016 Paid Leave in the Workplace, a survey recently conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Does this disparity demonstrate discrimination against men? Not necessarily.…
Get back to where you once belonged. Picture this… You decide to eliminate an employee’s position, but give her a few weeks’ notice. Prior to her last day of work, you present this employee with a severance agreement, which offered her six weeks of pay in exchange for “a complete waiver…
Head on over to the EEOC’s website (here) to check out: Legal Rights for Pregnant Workers under Federal Law; and Helping Patients Deal with Pregnancy-Related Conditions and Restrictions at Work For an expert like me – -an employment lawyer with four young kids — this stuff is like tying my…