With the recent focus on the new Paid Sick Leave law coming in a few weeks, it’s been easy to miss a few court cases that have come out recently that should be of interest to employers and their counsel.
One such case, O’Reggio v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities, provides important guidance
Last year, I visited Vancouver and got to go to Granville Island Public Market — one of the great markets in North America.
Sure, I could talk about the wonderful food I got there, but there was something else that felt very unique and downright modern — their restroom.
The bathroom had a sign —
Does the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act (CFEPA) include claims of associational discrimination based on an employee’s association with a disabled individual?
That was the issue before the Connecticut Appellate Court in Demarco v. Charter Oak Temple Restoration Assn., Inc. decided yesterday.
The Court held that Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46a-60 (b) (1) of CFEPA
Tomorrow, the EEOC is expected to publish its final regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. They were previewed in a press release earlier this week.
Since nearly every lawfirm is producing their own summary of what are, in my view, fairly straightforward implementation regulations, this post will take a different tact — namely how
When you’re sick with a cold, you end up having some time to read and I came across a recent study of hiring practices of about 100 of the largest companies nationwide.
Published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers sent 80,000 résumés to 10,000 jobs from 2019 to 2021. Ultimately, the authors found
It’s March and things are heating up at the General Assembly so let’s get right at the bills that employers should be aware of.
Senate Bill 4 — which is deemed to be a Senate caucus priority bill, and thus something employers should pay attention to — redefines discrimination in a way that has never
This month, I published a new article for Practicing Law Institute Chronicle entitled Neurodiversity in the Workplace.
The article builds off a post I did last November by taking a look at some of the cases that have tackled the subject.
For those unfamiliar with the topic, I summarized it in the article as
Last week, Law360 quoted me in an article on marital status discrimination. (They timed it for Valentine’s Day; make of that what you will.)
The gist of the article is that marital status discrimination is something for employers to be mindful of.
And for that premise, I’m in agreement. Several states, including Connecticut, explicitly
Employment discrimination claims are often decided on the merits of the claim. Courts routinely have to answer the question: Did the employer discriminate on the basis of a protected class against an employee in terminating the employment of that individual?
But there’s another class of cases that can resolved on procedural grounds, often times in
Don’t believe the hype — Valentine’s Day may be for lovers, but for employers, it’s only trouble. Indeed, back in 2011, I highlighted the perils of Valentine’s Day for employers recapping various cases in which Valentine’s Day played a central role. Given the day, I thought I would reprint it today as a reminder —