By: Amy Epstein Gluck As we continue to counsel clients large and small about how to prevent sexual harassment in this #MeToo era, I recently read about this project, “Not on the Menu,” the brain child of one restaurant owner and her staff during a problem-solving meeting after a customer put his hand up one employee’s shirt when she bussed his table. The focus is to protect service professionals from inappropriate customer interactions by…

By: Amy Epstein Gluck As the late, great Amy Winehouse sang: They tried to make me go to rehab I said, “no, no, no” Employers, if an employee seeks leave to go to rehab, your refrain is more likely to be, “yes, yes, yes.” Why? If an employee seeks help to treat an addiction, said employee is likely protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) or, for small employers (with less than 15 employees),…

By: Amy Epstein Gluck The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently entered into a consent decree with a Tex-Mex restaurant in Gainesville, Virginia (up to an hour from the DMV—without traffic) settling a lawsuit alleging that restaurant employees, including other servers and kitchen staff, subjected a gay male server to “unwelcome harassing and offensive behavior” that included the use of homophobic slurs and insults about his sexuality. The employees also harassed the server’s straight friend,…

By: Amy Epstein Gluck Your anti-discrimination, -harassment, and -retaliation policies must be enforced to be effective. It’s likely that this is no news flash, but in practice, people tend to forget. Case in point: yet another public memo to a household name company demonstrating that all that glitters may not be gold. What am I talking about? Well, this past weekend, I read this article by a new mama at Google who penned a memo…

Here’s a new case that will make you shake your head in wonder. Seems that a Wisconsin inpatient residential health facility was just sued by the EEOC for alleged disability discrimination. Nothing new here … I’ve been writing forever that the EEOC seems to be targeting health care professionals and facilities for disability or pregnancy discrimination.   Does the EEOC sees such health care folks as fat, juicy targets, for example, accusing the “helping” or “caring” professions,…

By Amy Epstein Gluck Hello, and happy end of summer! Like Rich, I am excited to participate in an EEOC panel in Baltimore at the EEOC Training Institute’s seminar about the Future of HR. Details: Where: Crowne Plaza Baltimore at the Inner Harbor, 105 W. Fayette Street When: August 26, 2019, at 9 a.m. Topic: The Future of HR is Today! What I’ll be talking about: What employers want to know about cannabis and medical…

I was very pleased to be invited by the EEOC to be a panelist in Philadelphia on August 20th at the EEOC Training Institute being conducted for HR people! Click this link from the EEOC for more info. The general topic for my panel is “The Future of HR is Today!” Hope to see you there if you happen to be in Philly!…