Suppose one of your employees complains that co-workers, believing him/her to be homosexual, are harassing him/her. You look into the complaint, but you kind of drop the ball and nothing is really done. The co-workers, having found out about the complaint, step up the harassment. You also learn that the complainant may have violated a […]
10.1 Million Reasons Why Anti-Harassment Policies Alone Are Not Enough…
Does your workplace have anti-harassment policies? What about anti-discrimination policies? It probably does. If not it probably should. If ever an employee filed a charge with the EEOC or a state agency or sued, that’s one of the first documents an employer would have to produce. Not being able to do so could be the […]
What We Can Learn from Gretchen Carlson and Fox News
Whether they want to report it or not, one piece of news is spreading rapidly: Gretchen Carlson, a former host at Fox News (and, yes, a former Miss America) has sued Fox News CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment and retaliation. Let me say this at the outset: I am not going to try to […]
The Concluding Piece on Wal-Mart’s Employment Law Capers
After 11 weeks of semi-intense focus on the world’s largest private employer, The Emplawyerologist is now wrapping up its series on Wal-Mart. Now, of course, we can still expect to hear more about Wal-Mart and its employment law woes in the news–unless of course, Wal-Mart does what we have been doing over here, by learning […]
Sexual Harassment Complaints Don’t Go Away When You Ignore Them–Ask Wal-Mart!
On March 25, 2014 the EEOC announced a settlement of a sexual harassment case against Wal-Mart. Most employers do not want to be seen as tolerating sexual harassment. Wal-Mart is probably no exception. Now, we’ve had Wal-Mart under somewhat of a microscope lately (click here, here, here , here and here for review) in our continuing quest to […]