Somewhere, George Orwell is shaking his head.
This week, a Florida school board voted to remove a graphic-novel adaptation of 1984 from a school library.
Yes, 1984. The dystopian novel about censorship, government control, and the manipulation of information.
Consider this workplace hypothetical.
Bob manages Department A. He can hire, fire, discipline, and promote employees in Department A.
Jane works in Department B. Bob isn’t in Jane’s chain of command. He doesn’t supervise her, evaluate her, control her pay,
An employee’s FMLA certification says she may need intermittent leave “4x per month for 1 day.”
She’s never missed more than four days in a month. But sometimes she takes two of those days consecutively.
HR reads the certification as
One email. One click. And, nearly a decade later, 114 guilty verdicts.
The Manchester City financial scandal started with something far less sophisticated than disguised sponsorship agreements, hidden payments, or Premier League financial regulations.
It started with phishing.
In January
A firefighter with PTSD asks to bring his dog to work as a reasonable accommodation. The dog helps calm him. His psychologist supports the request.Does the ADA require the employer to say yes?Not necessarily.In Fisher v. City of Lansing, a
Nineteen years in, I repainted the walls. Your handbook needs the same.Your brain is built to notice what’s new. That’s not a flaw. It’s a feature.Novelty grabs attention and makes people curious. Wharton researchers Hengchen Dai, Katherine Milkman, and Jason
That’s the 6th Circuit, in a retaliation case that started with a groping complaint and ended with a pornographic slideshow.
Gertrude Crisp, an EMT at the Scioto
