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Employment Law

Ignore man’s harassment claim at your peril

12/12/2019
About 16% of all sexual harassment complaints the EEOC receives each year are filed by men who claim women harassed them at work. As this case shows, ignoring female-on-male harassment can be costly.

DOL seeks $400 million for Oracle pay bias

12/12/2019
A federal court in California began hearing testimony Dec. 5 in a lawsuit that claims software giant Oracle underpaid current and former workers by more than $400 million while they worked on government contracts over the course of four years.

Smiley Dental supervisor frowned on pregnancy

12/10/2019
Smiley Dental in Dallas has agreed to settle EEOC pregnancy discrimination charges that arose after a receptionist informed her boss she was pregnant a month after being hired.

Demonstrate good faith on wage claims by seeking advice from your attorney

12/10/2019
If you don’t pay overtime as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act, you may end up owing both back pay plus a penalty equal to the amount you owed. But that’s not all; it could get worse.

Yes, online arbitration agreements are binding

12/10/2019
Until recently, some employers worried that not getting a hard signature on a printed arbitration agreement might mean the contract wasn’t valid. That’s no longer a worry.

Halliburton settles charges of race, national origin bias

12/10/2019
Energy industry supplier Halliburton has agreed to settle charges it discriminated against two workers because of their national origin and religion.

Isolated comments don’t add up to harassment

12/05/2019
A few isolated comments of an arguably sexual nature aren’t enough to support a hostile work environment lawsuit. To make that case, an employee who quits and sues would have to show that a hypothetical reasonable employee would have done the same to escape the hostile environment.

Asylum for immigrant safety whistleblowers?

12/05/2019
Over the years, courts have ruled that undocumented workers who report unsafe working conditions enjoy many of the same protections as whistleblowers who are U.S. citizens. That doesn’t mean retaliation never happens.

Trying to encourage resignation can backfire

12/05/2019
Some supervisors mistakenly believe that it won’t have any consequences if they can convince an employee to quit. That’s not true.

Report: HR, hiring managers need disability training

12/03/2019
A new report on workplace disability inclusion found many HR professionals and hiring managers are ill-prepared to hire, retain or advance individuals with disabilities.