Tennessee Titans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons On February 1, 2022, the first day of Black History Month, Brian Flores filed a bombshell class-action lawsuit in federal court. Mr. Flores, the former head coach of the Miami Dolphins, claims that the Miami Dolphins, New York Giants, and Denver Broncos…
Image Credit: Wig by Daniela Baptista from the Noun Project In recent years, some states and municipalities have made it unlawful to discriminate based on an individual’s hairstyle because certain protected classes — usually Black women — receive unfair treatment based on inherent hair texture and protective hairstyles, like braids,…
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay I’ll give you a few seconds to pick your jaws up off the floor before I continue. The Newberg Graphic (here) appears to be the first one to break the news: A staff member at [an] Elementary School in Newberg showed up to work in…
Micthev, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons I have a not-so-hypothetical situation for you. Let’s see how you handle it. ABC Company has a seniority-based bidding system to assign shifts, giving longer-tenured managers shift preference. However, the president of the company has the discretion to readjust the shifts at her…
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing an employer for race and color discrimination. And water is wet. But what makes this one so 😲😨🤯? Check out the allegations from this press release that I read yesterday in the EEOC newsroom announcing a new Title…
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…
Daniel Barcelona, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Did I ever tell you guys about the wacky race discrimination case I defended involving a male fast-food franchise employee caught on video smacking a female co-worker? Both the violence and subsequent bogus race discrimination claim were unsettling. Still, it was…
Nicolas Ettlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons You (soft) served up one pun too many, Eric. Geez! I might have blown my chance at drafting press releases for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Then again, anything is popsicle when you’re the cream of the crop. Yeah, that’d be…
Ivan Radic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Imagine a non-union widget factory in which widget makers want to unionize. As part of the unionizing campaign, one of the widget makers decides to wear a vest on which he writes “Widget Lives Matter.” Management is concerned that this vest is…
Image Credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer (Syringe and vaccination record card on blue background)//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js The Miami Heat made news twice yesterday. First, the rumor mill has the franchise closely tied to a deal for Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry. Of course, my beloved Philadelphia 76ers are also in the…