As a management side employment attorney, I work with employers to mitigate risk, comply with federal, state, and local law, and to create a workplace culture in which people feel safe and respected.Likely, I am not alone in this. Lawyers
Often, a finding of unlawful sexual harassment stems from the employer’s failure to act on reported complaints.This was the focus of a case where the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC) sued a former cellular phone retailer in the
If you are wondering about the effect the next Trump Administration will have on employment law (and isn’t that what we all spent the weekend thinking about?!?), look no further.My Pierson Ferdinand employment partner Gordon Berger and I will provide
This post is a little more lawyerly than usual.I read an opinion last night from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming the district court’s decision to grant summary judgment to the employer.That’s the dream for employers,
The mental health and wellness of the workforce has, until recently, been a neglected issue. However, the pandemic and its remote work concept, and the mental health issues suffered particularly by younger employees, is now front and center in the
Two new religious discrimination cases filed or settled by the EEOC give me the opportunity to discuss what I long ago called the “two flavors” of workplace religious discrimination – a subject which I blogged about numerous times. In the
Oh, Gen Z, Gen Z. Look, I’m not going to slam Gen Z. I’m not going to call them the Tik Tok Generation or Zoomers or snowflakes or anything like that. I have three humans of my own in Gen
Last week I posted that “A new study entitled 2024 State of Ageism in the Workplace has found that 90% of employees over 40 have experienced workplace age discrimination.”I just read that: “A recent study by CWI Labs found that 59% of
As a follow up to my post earlier today, I saw this quote from the Vice Chair of the Florida Commission on Human Relations, Larry Hart, in a Florida journal:“Ageism refers to the stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination directed at
A new study entitled 2024 State of Ageism in the Workplace has found that 90% of employees over 40 have experienced workplace age discrimination.Indeed, age discrimination is rampant in society and in workplaces – but the staggeringly high percentage of