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After reading 133 pages of transcripts from yesterday’s two (1, 2) oral arguments in the three LGBT workplace rights cases pending before the Supreme Court, three things are clear to me: Continue reading
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It’s been a while since the Supreme Court weighed in on a big-time employment-law issue. That’s about to change.
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A few decades ago, some men sued Hooters Restaurant, claiming that the purveyor of chicken wings, burgers, beer, and shapely female servers in tight, revealing outfits, was discriminating against males who were denied employment as servers.
That case resolved in 1997, with Hooters serving up a multi-million dollar settlement and opening up a few gender-neutral positions at the restaurant.
But, not servers. Continue reading
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(Not pictured: Eric Meyer; probably off grabbing a Dole Whip (adult version) and a turkey leg). Continue reading
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I can tell you this. It takes more than a few posts from a couple of ‘Wingnuts.’
Remember those “what’s wrong with this picture” games that we played as children? Something like this.
Last night, I found the employment law equivalent from this recent Sixth Circuit opinion. Continue reading
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Sympathetic: sym·pa·thet·ic Continue reading
Today, we’re taking a break from wage-and-hour compliance because I’m not sure that you can continue to handle that much fun. How else would you interpret so many people (un)subscribing to this blog yesterday?
Instead, I want to talk about news of this brief that over 200 companies, representing more than 7 million employees, a wide variety of industries, and more than $5 trillion in revenue will file with the Supreme Court today. Continue reading
Or, stated differently, does a federal anti-discrimination law even cover a business that operates illegally under federal law?
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