The DOL released a best practices guide for employers on “Artificial Intelligence and Worker Well-being”
Last year, the EEOC published a resource to help employers avoid bias claims from using artificial intelligence. Earlier this month,...
Category: Employer Handbook
How can your business avoid retaliation claims? Just do what this company did.
When an employee complains about discrimination or unethical business practices, there’s often a concern that they’ll construe any subsequent...
The FTC is all-in on its proposed noncompete ban, appealing the nationwide injunction against it.
On Friday afternoon, the Federal Trade Commission notified a federal judge in Texas who had previously entered a nationwide injunction against its...
Did this employee get caught trying to pull a fast one? Or did the company interfere with his FMLA rights?
Stop me if this sounds familiar. An employee has a bad day at work. His supervisor assigned him work...
Force your employees to sign THIS, and the EEOC may nail you for ADA interference
Something caught my eye yesterday as I was perusing the EEOC newsroom. The federal watchdog recently announced that it...
100,000 reasons to accommodate an employee after she experiences a stillbirth (and not fire her four days later)
About two weeks ago, I spotlighted an EEOC lawsuit where the agency claimed an employer fired a woman four...
Rest in Peace: Lilly Ledbetter, an equal-pay activist and icon
U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Over the weekend, Lilly Ledbetter, a woman who unintentionally...
An employee facing termination of employment requested FMLA leave. It didn’t save him from getting fired. Here’s why…
In a precedential decision issued on Friday, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reinstate a plaintiff’s trial court...
Join us today on Zoom at Noon ET to learn the playbook of an employee-rights attorney (who used to represent employers).
Alex Meier leveraged years of experience and savvy representing clients of one of the leading management-side employment law firms...
Your HR Guide to Hurricane Milton
As I write this post on Wednesday night, Hurricane Milton is making landfall in Florida as a category three...
I’m pretty sure I found Exhibit “A” in a new EEOC pregnancy bias lawsuit. It will blow your mind 🤯
Yesterday, the EEOC announced that it had sued an employer for allegedly denying a new hire request to leave training...
Should it be harder for straight workers to prove bias than gay workers? How about a heightened standard for white workers to prove discrimination? The Supreme Court will decide.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees and applicants based on...
Join us on Zoom on Friday, October 11 for “To the Dark Side (or perhaps seeing the light).”
I want you to meet Alex Meier. For many years, Alex represented clients of one of the leading management-side...
Will you help a friend impacted by Hurricane Helene?
Ranae Sheppard is lucky to be alive. A wife, mother of four, and integral litigation support provider to law...
With so many religious holidays coming up, make sure your managers don’t do THIS.
Many of your employees and applicants will celebrate religious holidays between now and the end of the year. Today,...
The EEOC just sued some employers for preventing transgender employees from using restrooms consistent with their gender identity
In 2015, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determined that a federal agency that denied an employee equal access...