Image by DigitalShards from Pixabay I’ve talked a fair amount recently about retaliation claims (here and here), mostly focusing on timing as the possible link between a protected activity (such as a complaint of discrimination) and an adverse employment action (like a firing). The plaintiffs in those cases were unsuccessful…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay You’ve been here before. One of your employees just complained about discrimination in the workplace. Or maybe s/he just participated in an HR investigation. A few days or weeks later, s/he violates your work rules and you have clear grounds to fire the employee. Now…
By U.S. Government – Extracted from PDF file here., Public Domain, Link I want to give a little shoutout to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with whom I am spending the day today in Atlanta at the 22nd annual Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference. So, today’s post…
De Wicker Paradise from New Rochelle, United States – Omni Consumer Products — Fight Club Soap – Logo Bar outdoor wicker is a favorite of ours! So is this find by tind., CC BY 2.0, Ligazón The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/vectors/resume-unemployed-job-unemployment-2163673/) Company A and Company B work together from time to time on certain projects. Both companies have invested a lot of time, money, and other resources into their respective workforces and do not want to risk employees switching companies. So, they enter into a no-hire or…
🤔🤔🤔💪💪💪 When you have a Google Alert for “Fired” and “Facebook,” sometimes, you really have to get through a lot of chaff before you find the wheat. Over the past few days, I’ve had to sift through: The Bachelorette: Hannah Is Still Roasting Luke P. for Trying to Sex-Shame Her…
Image Credit: Kensli Taylor Davis on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220318919467148&set=a.2332519756469&type=3&theater) We’ve all been there. Ok, some of us haven’t accidentally decorated a viral marijuana cake. Here’s what happened according to this report from Trisha Ahmed and Katherine Dillinger reporting at CNN: A marijuana-themed cake made this family’s day in Milledgeville, Georgia —…
Liz [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsNot watching porn; filming it. Ew! We need bleach and a dumpster fire for the school supplies! According to this report from Brhe Berry and Shelley Childers at ABC 13, a school official confirmed that a substitute teacher, whom the school had employed for…
Joseph Williams [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsThroughout much of the day yesterday, Twitter trended with news that Harvard University had rescinded the college admission of one of Parkland shooting survivors. For something the school just learned that he did two years ago. Here’s more from Joe Sterling reporting here…
Image Credit: Tommy Boy (screenshot from Vimeo.com) Last week, I wavered about whether to include a line from Tommy Boy in a brief that I was drafting: “I tell ya what. If you don’t know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I’ll have Tommy Boy here come…