Can you be liable for employment discrimination against someone who’s not your employee? Sometimes. Title VII and the other aforementioned laws prohibit employers from discriminating. These laws loosely define employers as entities with a minimum number of employees, usually 15 or more (20 or more under the ADEA). If you meet that threshold, you are […]
Think 3.8 Million Times About Accommodating Nursing Moms At Work
Your employee returns from maternity leave and informs you that as a nursing mother she needs certain accommodations. What do you do? Hopefully you make every effort to find her an appropriate, sanitary, relatively private place to express her milk. Hopefully you allow her reasonable breaks. It’s the right thing to do. It’s also the […]
Time May Not Heal All Wounds in Discrimination Cases…
What do you think when you hear that a employee filed a discrimination claim against a former employer? Do you assume it’s just a disgruntled employee looking for a payout? What if the employee alleged that s/he was subjected to 18 years of discrimination and harassment, had complained repeatedly and that the employer did nothing […]
A Failure-to-Hire Claim After Refusing A Job Offer? What’s Up With That???
So a female applicant is offered a job. She rejects the offer. Then she turns around and sues the company, alleging failure to hire and sex discrimination. Whaaaaaaat? Yes, you read that right. Understandably the would-be employer moved to dismiss the claim. After all she can’t prove that she was rejected for the position and […]
What Might Ashley Judd’s Case Against Harvey Weinstein Mean for You?
A judge just ruled that Ashley Judd can proceed with at least part of her lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein. How do those of us who are not Hollywood stars or executives, relate to these people and their issues? Fundamentally, this case is about employment law issues, sexual harassment and retaliation to be specific. Ashley Judd, […]