Suppose you are a Department Head at Larger-than-Life Sciences, Inc. Rhonda the Researcher is one of your direct reports. Rhonda is just not performing well at her job. In fact, you are not sure she is really qualified. Your annual performance review showed serious problems. You then put Rhonda on a Performance Improvement Plan. Rhonda […]
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 […]
Walmart’s “A Series of Unfortunate Lawsuits”
The next several weeks will be seemingly devoted to our nation’s largest retailer, second-largest corporation and largest private employer. In case you have not guessed, or if you missed last week’s post (you can click here if you did) that distinction goes to Wal-Mart. Now, we are not going to be appraising Wal-Mart’s general business […]
How Much Has the US Supreme Court Undercut Workplace Retaliation Claims?
The United States Supreme Court in June decided two cases believed to be very “employer-friendly”. I mentioned the first, Vance v. Ball State University 133 S.Ct. 2434 (2013) here in a recent Emplawyerologist post. The other one, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar 133 S.Ct. 2517 (2013) dealt with the level of proof (specifically the causation standard) required for […]