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Two black employees complain to a supervisor that a white co-worker is taunting them with racial pejoratives.
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Three important employment law lessons from ViacomCBS firing Nick Cannon for anti-Semitic remarks
Earlier this week, ViacomCBS announced that it had severed ties with Nick Cannon over anti-Semitic remarks he made recently on this episode of his YouTube podcast “Cannon’s Class.” Continue reading
If you permit Black Lives Matter apparel at work, does that mean White Lives Matter is ok too?
Yesterday’s post about employees wearing Black Lives Matter apparel at work was a bit of a lightning rod.
While all of the comments I received were respectful — thank you! — some questioned whether allowing employees to wear BLM face masks, pins, and insignia to work would open the door to others showing support for “White Lives Matter.”
Well, sure enough, between yesterday’s blog post and this one, that’s what we got. Continue reading
Is it legal to forbid employees from wearing Black Lives Matter face masks or insignia at work?
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If you’ve read the news recently, you may have seen stories like this one and this one about large businesses that had policies against employees wearing pro-BLM clothes and apparel. In those two examples, each of the companies has since changed its policies. You can read more about that here and here.
But, let’s say that your business still wanted to ban employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks or symbols at work.
George Floyd and six resources that employers can use now to combat racism
To be quite honest with you, I’m somewhat bewildered. Continue reading
A college recruiter was fired for allegedly lining up high school students by complexion and nappiest hair.
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Do you ever wonder what the heck is wrong with people sometimes? Of course, you do; you’re in human resources. Continue reading
This, right here, is some of the most messed up retaliation (allegedly). And it all settled for a cool milli.
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Technically, they settled for $1.15M. But, that won’t stop me from playing some ‘Lil Wayne. Continue reading
The “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing” plaintiff lost her discrimination case. Go figure.
It’s bad enough when a federal judge refers to a plaintiff-employee’s behavior towards her manager as “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing.” And, I apologize that I didn’t have enough room in the title of this blog post to mention the plaintiff’s profanity and fighting at work, or her arrests for drunk driving and drug possession.
So, you’d think that the plaintiff would cut and run after the district court dismissed her claims for pregnancy, sex, race, and religious discrimination claims. But, the plaintiff who referred to herself at work as “crazy” and “psycho” decided to appeal to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
And how do you think that went for the plaintiff? Continue reading
Folks, it’s never a joke when employees use the N-word at work. Make sure your managers know that.
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Every so often, I receive a Google Alert about some knucklehead who writes something inappropriate — usually a racial slur — on a restaurant receipt. Often, the knucklehead tries to explain her or his actions away as a joke.