It’s the age old tale. Like a couple of sexting rabbits, a female employee and her male supervisor carrying on like, well, a pair of sexting rabbits. And, then, after the defendant-company fires the plaintiff-employee, she sues and claims that she was subjected to quid pro quo sexual harassment. So,…
In late December of 2012, the EEOC approved its Strategic Enforcement Plan for 2013-2016. Sadly, one of the agency’s enforcement priorities has been ignored on this blog. Until now. Protecting Immigrant, Migrant and Other Vulnerable Workers. There are six EEOC enforcement priorities. While there is no hierarchy among the six,…
Second verse, same as the first. (But read it anyway to pad my blog stats, would ya?) All of us have heard the words “hostile work environment” bandied about to the point where the most minor slight in the office can supposedly create a hostile work environment. Well, as a…
Who would have guessed that, in a state without a state administrative agency to accept discrimination charges, where only age discrimination is against state law, a federal judge would rule that sexual orientation is considered sex discrimination and, therefore, a violation of Title VII. A groundbreaking decision. Yes, late last month, Judge Myron…
Something else you may not know about me. On Saturday evenings, I crash Bar Mitzvahs and hustle blackjack. And then I’m like… But then, on Sunday, it’s back the Bloggerdome for a new post. For this one, let’s talk about R. Kelly a recent Fourth Circuit decision in which the…
Butt slaps are rarely appropriate. Not in the courtroom. Not in the workplace. Even Buttslaps, LLC in Butte, Montana frowns on butt slaps at work. (I totally made that last part up. Don’t Google it). Where am I going with this? Hell When an employee sues for sexual harassment,…
You’re right, Commissioner Feldblum. Social media is awesome! Last Friday, I posted here about a recent federal-court decision addressing the sex discrimination claims of a transgender employee. What drew my attention to the case was this Facebook status update from EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, in which she touted the court’s decision as further support for…
We’re talking full frontal here. And oddly, it took a federal appellate to figure this out. That is, a female plaintiff alleged that her male co-worker pulled out his penis three times (once to her and her co-worker, and two other times at work to other female co-workers…
In these Summer months, it’s easy to relax a bit. For example, last weekend I spent Sunday morning sleeping off a fun Saturday night in the shade of a tree on my front lawn while my four kids played slip-and-slide in traffic on the front lawn too. Although, I did…
You won’t find this one on the SAT’s. Nope, that math is courtesy of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in this recent opinion, in which a nursing home patient subjected the plaintiff, a phlebotomist, to, well, you read the lede. And all of that happened over a span of just…