Image by 政徳 吉田 from Pixabay Who loves you? Slide deck: A Return to Work from COVID-19: EEO and Other Employment Law Considerations – BOOM! Webinar: Covid-19 claims and lawsuits; Prepare your business today for potential lawsuits tomorrow – Let’s goooooooo! Plus, get 40 credits worth of HR virtual learning…
Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay Yesterday, both Law360 (here) and Bloomberg (here) reported that the U.S. Department of Labor had begun investigating whether Microsoft violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal anti-discrimination law the prohibits race bias, when Microsoft decided to double the number of…
Image by tigerlily713 from Pixabay While I don’t have a ‘Dallas Cowboys’ — how ’bout dem Cowboys! — level of hatred for probationary periods for new employees, I do not like them. The 90-day probationary-employee language that I see from time to time in employee handbooks is a holdover from…
Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay Well, that depends. 😉 It depends on the state in which you are employed. Some states haven’t legalized medical marijuana. So, you’re SOL if you work in one of them. Others that have legalized medical marijuana have clear laws that permit employees fired for having…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY Finally, we put the wraps on “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. There is so much left to discuss, but, well, I’ve got a thing. So, rather than dig into the Barrett archives myself, I figured I’d share what other bloggers and writers…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY In Tuesday’s installment of “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook, we explored Judge Barrett’s determination that a jury’s $300K national original discrimination award should survive appeal. Today, I have another case for you in which Judge Barrett handled the appeal of a jury…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY Congratulations! You’ve made half-way through “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. Well, technically, you won’t reach the midpoint until you get about 178 words into this 356-word-long post, but you get the idea. So, how about we discuss the thrilling, compelling, edge-of-your-seat world…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY Welcome back to “Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. I’m devoting five blog posts to some of her most significant employment law decisions so that, maybe, we can read the tea leaves to see how she may rule from the Supreme Court bench…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY Over the weekend, President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to fill the open Supreme Court seat. Since this is an ***check notes*** employment law blog, many of you may be…
Harald Krichel / CC BY-SA In a demand letter sent Wednesday to actor Bill Murray, an attorney for The Doobie Brothers told the actor to stop using his clients’ music in his commercials without paying for it, while condemning Mr. Murray to “eternal damnation” for his Garfield movies. Ouch! Yes,…