Last week I posted about the US Supreme Court case, Bostock v Clayton, County, Georgia, specifically the ruling itself and the underlying reasoning. You can read that post here if you missed it. The 3 consolidated cases that prompted the ruling all involved the firing of an employee based either on their sexual orientation or […]
Does Your Conflict Resolution Program Promote Religious Discrimination?
Corporate culture is important. So is conflict resolution in the workplace, right? What happens when you implement a program to improve on both issues and your employees are not on board with it? What do you do? Can you discipline them? Maybe. If you discipline the employees that don’t follow the program can they claim […]
Take This to the Bank: Allowing Customers to Harass Your Employees WILL Land You in Trouble
You have harassment policies, right? You already know that you can’t allow sexual harassment to happen in your workplace without likely legal consequences, right? You might even have investigated allegations that one of your employees sexually harassed another employee and taken disciplinary action. OK, that’s all well and good. Your obligations to ensure a safe, […]
Give It a Rest: When Do You Have to Accommodate an Employee’s Sabbath Request?
You run a retail establishment. You hire a new Manager. The position requires work on the weekends. The candidate tells you that s/he is a practicing Seventh Day Adventist and needs Saturdays off to observe his Sabbath. What do you do? Can you rescind the offer? Are you obligated to honor your offer and allow […]
Transgender Employees Are Not Waiting for the Supreme Court…
Most of you probably know that the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in October on three consolidated cases regarding the rights of homosexual and transgender employees in the workplace. Those cases are Gerald Lynn Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia; Altitude Express v. Melissa Zarda; and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment […]