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The Employer Handbook BlogCan an employer force an employee to arbitrate ***checks notes*** a charge of discrimination?
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Articles Posted in Discrimination and Unlawful Harassment
Here’s something you may not know about hostile work environment claims
Let’s start with what you probably know already — especially if you are an employment lawyer. Continue reading
Why, oh WHY, did a court determine that ASTHMA IS NOT A DISABILITY?!?
To answer that question, I’ll first introduce you to “Jane.” Continue reading
875,000 reasons why the customer isn’t always right
A staffing company allegedly fulfilling a customer’s discriminatory hiring practices learned this lesson the hard way. Continue reading
HR told me I was fired for not losing my religion
Well, not me. But, a former employee claimed it happened to him. So, let’s cue R.E.M. and talk about religious expression in the workplace. Continue reading
“This case arises from a workplace romance.” It began as “an affair” when “they were not yet colleagues, only lovers.”
Kind of sounds like the start of a beautiful movie or novel, doesn’t it?
Unfortunately, however, it became more Lady Gaga. Or, more precisely, the writings of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals adjudicating an on-again-off-again sexual relationship between the “lovers” who became “colleagues” in the “workplace” and, later, plaintiff and defendant in a quid pro quo sexual harassment lawsuit.
Mark your calendars for two FREE employment law webinars this month.
I receive email alerts from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that include information on upcoming webinars. Most of them cost money to attend. But every once in a while, there’s a freebie.
Like this one.
An employer that supposedly instructed employees to pray away COVID-19 now must face religious discrimination claims.
Colloquially, today’s topic is “reverse religious discrimination.” But, more accurately, it’s about a claim of “religious nonconformity.”
In plain English, what happens when an employee refuses to comply with their employer’s religion? Continue reading
This, if true, is what we call direct evidence of race discrimination
Yesterday’s post discussed how direct evidence “proves impermissible discriminatory bias without additional inference or presumption,” i.e., the proverbial smoking gun. But smoking gun evidence in discrimination cases is rare. Employers aren’t out there telling employees that their race will cost them their jobs.
Well, most employers, that is. Continue reading
