Image by CryptoSkylark from Pixabay I know, right? Shocking! But it’s true, and I’ll explain why. “More than a de minimis cost.” On Monday, the Supreme Court decided not to review a case in which an employee claimed that his former employer failed to accommodate his religious beliefs by allowing…
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Several states are taking steps to forbid employers from requiring that workers receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Separately, I know of at least two pending lawsuits that employees have filed. I already blogged about one of them here. The other is pending in a federal court in…
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…
Image by Mango Matter from Pixabay On Wednesday, I wrote (here) about the New York Mets’ decision to terminate its General Manager, just one month into his tenure, because the team recently learned that he sexted a female reporter in 2016 while working for the Chicago Cubs in their front…
Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay I was in The Zone yesterday. Late in the afternoon, a reader emailed me to see if I had posted an article addressing “what if” an employee refuses to receive the vaccine should your business choose to require it? Well, it just…
Sowlos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced here that it had released for public comment this new draft guidance on religious discrimination in the workplace. The EEOC is long overdue for an update. As the EEOC notes in the press release, it…
Image by macdeedle from Pixabay Last year, I wrote here about a Florida high school principal who was fired because, allegedly, he refused to say the Holocaust happened because “not everyone believes” it actually occurred. Well, according to CNN, about a month ago, the school board picked the wrong week…
Phil Whitehouse//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Anti-discrimination law focuses on the impact that bad acts have on victims, not on whether the actor intended the consequences of his actions. That’s why many employment lawyers caution employer-clients against second chances for employees that do things that others perceive as discriminatory. Just ask Nick Cannon. Second…
Nick Step / CC BY Earlier this week, ViacomCBS announced that it had severed ties with Nick Cannon over anti-Semitic remarks he made recently on this episode of his YouTube podcast “Cannon’s Class.” Mr. Cannon has often appeared on cable networks, MTV and TeenNick, both of which ViacomCBS owns. In…
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay It’s bad enough when a federal judge refers to a plaintiff-employee’s behavior towards her manager as “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing.” And, I apologize that I didn’t have enough room in the title of this blog post to mention the plaintiff’s profanity and fighting at…