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Of balls and strikes, discrimination and documentation

09/22/2022
Major League Baseball has an umpire problem this season. However, one umpire has drawn the ire of players and fans for decades—and he has been embroiled in a discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball since 2017.

Religious beliefs: A matter of conscience?

09/22/2022
A newly filed lawsuit says CVS Health violated Virginia law when it dismissed a nurse practitioner who declined to prescribe or administer abortion-inducing drugs because of her religious beliefs as a Catholic.

Banning noncompetes for the nonexempt

09/22/2022
Rep. Mike Garcia (R.-Calif.) introduced the Restoring Workers Rights Act on Sept. 1 2022, a bill that would ban the use of noncompetition agreements for nonexempt employees across the country.

Here’s what happens when your managers don’t follow your written call-out policies

09/22/2022
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, an employer can insist that employees comply with the company’s “usual and customary” absentee notice procedures. Often those call-out procedures are part of written leave and attendance policies. But, as one company found out the hard way, “usual and customary” absentee notice can transcend formal policies and procedures when managers bend the rules.

Pay time-and-a-half or pay the price

09/22/2022
U.S. Department of Labor investigators found Done-Rite Tree Co. failed to pay overtime wages to 39 nonexempt workers in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Sexual harassment + retaliation = EEOC lawsuit

09/22/2022
A female employee was sexually harassed, then transferred and denied promotional opportunity because she complained. That triple whammy violation of federal law resulted in an EEOC lawsuit filed in early September.

Pay disparity lawsuit blooms

09/22/2022
A class action filed on Sept. 8 for claims under the Equal Pay Act asserts that women in managerial positions are paid at a lower rate than men in managerial positions.

Avoid letting client prejudice send you to court

09/22/2022
Here’s a warning about indulging prejudices. Judges don’t want to hear the excuse that you discriminated against a protected class member because your customer, patient or client demanded you do.

Employment nonprofit settles race discrimination

09/20/2022
A Black employee working for a nonprofit at Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming was subjected to racial slurs and other offensive racial comments by a White colleague.

Diner ordered to dish up $1.35 million

09/20/2022
The Empire Diner in Lansdowne, Pa., learned the hard way it’s not nice to steal your servers’ tips.