On March 12, a federal court in PA resolved the first HUGE LinkedIn account dispute case involving an employee and former employer. I’ve written about out it a few times previously. (Here, here,and here). The latest decision is involved. And rather than pontificate — too many syllables — I’ll defer…
I had two topics on the brain to blog about: Whether, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, being on time is an essential function of the job. Fortunately, Daniel Schwartz addressed that yesterday here at the Connecticut Employment Law Blog. As a follow-up to yesterday’s wage-and-hour / Daylight Savings Time…
Can you blow my whistle baby, whistle baby. Let me know. Girl I’m gonna show you how to do it.And we start real slow. You just put your lips together. And you come real close. Can you blow my whistle baby, whistle baby? Here we go. Concerned with the limited…
In 2011, New Jersey passed a law banning discrimination against the unemployed. Will PA follow suit in 2013? The ball is rolling…. The PA House introduced its own unemployment-discrimination bill on January 22, 2013, and you can view a copy of it here. Cliff’s notes version: Employers CAN’T use…
The original working title for the post was “The Third Circuit takes a deuce on my ‘Pottymouths’ post.” I meant it in the figurative sense. Otherwise, I would be at a loss for words with IT. More so than usual… {Napalms browser history} But, fortunately, good taste and high morals…
Image credit: atom.smasher.org, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. When a male employee texted his female co-worker and former girlfriend that she was a “whore” and later ignored two protective orders that the female co-worker had taken out against him, I wonder if he was thinking, “Maybe,…
William Wengert is HIV-positive. He worked as a certified nursing assistant for Phoebe Ministries, until he was terminated last year following an incident in which a resident suffered a broken leg. The company claimed that the incident with the resident precipitated the firing. Conversely, Wengert alleged that the company violated…
Hurricane Sandy: Day 2 To my east-coasters, I hope this post finds you safe and dry. Me? Hey, thanks for asking. Our Philly home kept power throughout and we otherwise made it through unscathed. Still, Philadelphia remains in a state of emergency. The City is essentially shut down. Most of…
An employee getting fired for caustic social-media posts is so 2011. Having an application for unemployment-compensation benefits denied because of Twitter stupidity — that’s the new black. Details of a recent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania decision — don’t tread on me, Idaho — after the jump… * * * Stephen Burns…
That’s right folks. It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, an employer engages in unlawful retaliation when, in response to an employee…
