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Employment Law

Daley asks teachers’ union for a longer Chicago school day

08/01/2007

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has asked the Chicago Teachers Union for longer school days …

If disability affects performance, demotion may be in order

08/01/2007

Disabled employees are entitled to reasonable accommodations, including the elimination of nonessential functions. But what if an employee is functioning at a lower level than the job requires? …

Retain information on all recent reductions in force

08/01/2007

If your organization has gone through a series of downsizings over the last few years, be sure to keep complete and accurate records …

Instruct supervisors: Mum’s the word on discharge

08/01/2007

Nothing will sink an employer’s case faster than a manager’s careless comment …

You can be liable for ‘Sex-Plus’ discrimination, too

08/01/2007

You may think the only types of discrimination you have to worry about are those specified in Title VII, other federal laws and the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. You would be wrong …

Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act covers reverse discrimination, too

08/01/2007

The Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act protects Michigan employees from reverse discrimination: Those who can show they were denied promotions or other opportunities because of non-membership in a racial group can and do recover damages …

No one wins in unprofitable victory for Saginaw police officer

08/01/2007

The news keeps coming of high-dollar retaliation allegations involving Michigan police departments …

Michigan Seamless Tube to pay $500,000 for hiring discrimination

08/01/2007

Michigan Seamless Tube will pay $500,000 to settle a class-action race-discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC for refusing to hire black former employees of Vision Metals …

Lesson to teen: Don’t (Wolf) whistle while you work

08/01/2007

A teenager working at Nino Salvaggio’s International Marketplace in Clinton Township lost his job for whistling at a co-worker when she entered the store decked out in her prom dress …

Draft ‘Last-Chance’ agreements with care

08/01/2007

Q. We have a poor-performing employee who is up for discharge. The union has requested that we give him one “last chance,” and has said that it will agree to a last-chance agreement if we don’t terminate his employment now. What is the impact of a last-chance agreement? — J.R.