Speaking of WARN, there’s a good refresher in the May issue of the New York Employment Law Letter.  It’s well worth the read.

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The Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act has been around for a while, but you don’t hear much about it.  That could change in the wake of our present economy.  It seems that, almost daily, there are announcements of business closures, downsizings, reorganizations and layoffs.  When these things happen, are employers remembering WARN?
When Skybus recently quit […]

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If an employee files a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and you fire her shortly thereafter, you run the risk of also being accused of retaliation.  What if you fire the exployee’s fiancee?  Can he accuse you of retaliation and file his own charge with the EEOC?
According to the Sixth Circuit Court […]

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This blog has contained a number of posts about sex in the workplace, the mishandling of sex harassment complaints  and related matters–most recently happenings that involve the Ohio Attorney General’s office.  (Click here for the latest post, which has links to previous posts.)
A matter that has come to light in Los Angeles doesn’t involve an employment situation (at […]

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It can’t be disputed that women have made advances in all kinds of jobs over the past few decades.  A lengthy article in the New York Times Magazine about the demise of Zoe Cruz at Morgan Stanley provides the argument that it also can’t be disputed the glass ceiling women in the C-Suite bump up against is […]

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I must give credit for this post to a colleague, Michael Maslanka, a partner in the Dallas office of Ford & Harrison and the editor of the Texas Employment Law Letter.  He also writes a column called “Work Matters” for In-House Texas.  One of his recent columns was titled “No Jerks Allowed.”  I encourage you to […]

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I wouldn’t bet on it.  An internal investigation report issued today on the sex harassment scandal in the office of the Ohio Attorney General has resulted in the firing of two employees (and close friends of the Attorney General) and the resignation of another.  (Click here, here, and here for other posts on this matter.)
But what about the Attorney General?  One […]

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A few months ago, I did a post about an intern who had lost her student teaching position and was denied her teaching credentials because she had posted some objectionable pictures on her MySpace page.  As I noted at the time, Internet privacy is a hot employment law issue, and situations like this aren’t going away.  If anything, they’re […]

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I suppose the first kind of workplace violence was the old-fashioned workplace fight.  Fights still happen at work.  Sometimes, they involve some pushing and shoving.  Sometimes, blows are thrown and landed.  Fights obviously aren’t what you want going on at work–ever.
Almost all employers have rules against fighting on the job.  If you have a handbook, it’ll be in the handbook.  […]

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Whirlpool has suspended 39 employees in Indiana who were seen smoking after declaring themselves eligible for a $500 annual tobacco-free health insurance discount.  (Click here for more.)  Most large employers that have corporate wellness programs involving rewards and fines have generally relied on the honor system, as opposed to investigations or surveillance.  What some see as […]

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