Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/metoo-women-harassment-sexual-2859980/) On October 15, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano urged socal media user to share their stories of sexual harassment using the hashtag #MeToo. Maybe you’ve heard of it. Of course, you have. As have the millions of others who have used the hashtag since. This post goes…
By Missatikamekw [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia CommonsI wouldn’t quite know how to describe the feeling if that were the moniker placed on my business. So, I’ll just go with the opposite of this. In stark contrast to the close call that was the behavior described in yesterday’s blog post,…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (http://photofunia.com/results/5b9a4b7e46867953) In most federal courts in this country, a plaintiff arguing a Title VII violation because he or she was discriminated against based on his/her LGBT status will lose. That’s a fact. That’s because Title VII prohibits discrimination based on one’s “sex.” And, most courts don’t construe “sex”…
By Nederlands Instituut voor de Classificatie voor Audiovisueel Materiaal (NICAM) (http://www.kijkwijzer.nl/upload/download_pc/7.pdf) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsBy the time you read this, I should be blissfully cruising in the Atlantic outside the range of any cell towers. However, between now (Saturday afternoon) and Monday, I am feverishly punching out 5 blog…
Public Domain, Link It’s right there in the statute. Under New Jersey and Delaware state law, you can’t discriminate against an employee based on his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. Now, you won’t find the words “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” anywhere in the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act. But, starting…
Georges Biard [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia CommonsOver the weekend, there were several reports (including this one from Kim Severson at the New York Times) that Asia Argento paid out a large settlement to a man who accused Ms. Argento of sexually assaulting him in a hotel room when he…
By Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Surely, you remember the days (weeks) of horrible headlines that dogged United Airlines after the incident in which passengers filmed security dragging down the aisle a bloodied passenger who refused to give up his seat to an airline employee. Well, United may soon…
Screenshot from YouTube.com No. And you may end up paying the EEOC three million dollars. Like this company. (Oh, the irony.) Here’s more from the EEOC press release: The U.S. District Court approved a consent decree … for $3.5 million and remedial measures to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit, the…
Image Credit: Pexels.com (https://www.pexels.com/photo/alone-bed-bedroom-blur-271897/) Usually, after my kids go to bed is when I write my blog posts for the following day. Last night that didn’t happen. Instead, while putting my two boys to bed, I fell asleep on the spare bed in their room. #Parenting So, I apologize for…
By U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/40th/panel/hopkins.html, Public Domain, Link Yesterday’s blog post highlighted the blistering dissent of Eleventh Circuit judge Hon. Robin S. Rosenbaum, as she criticized her colleagues for passing on the opportunity to reconsider whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protected employees from discrimination based…