Last week, I had the opportunity to give a presentation on Family Responsibilities Discrimination. Also on the panel was Dina Bakst, Co-President of A Better Balance. I asked Dina to sit down in an interview afterwards to follow on some of the issues we discussed.
Prior to co-founding a A Better Balance, she
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak to the Fairfield County Bar Association on the burgeoning field of Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD, for short). It is also known at times as Caregiver Discrimination.
In essence, it is a cross-disciplinary practice that 
looks as various statutes like Title VII, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, FMLA, ADA and
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There are no statistics out there to prove this point, but the traditional office holiday party has to be among the top places where claims of sexual harassment and hostile work environment start.
Indeed, just a cursory look at some federal employment cases shows a common thread that run through each of them: alcohol-induced
Earlier today, I visited with John Dankosky on his wonderful WNPR show, "Where We Live". You can listen to the replay on its website here.
In the discussion, we touched on a variety of topics including the proposed Paycheck Fairness Act, which did not get through a procedural vote last week.
As
For most people, Halloween is a fun and silly holiday.
Yet the holiday has a distinct place in employment law history. Indeed, for some employers, the holiday has brought more tricks than treats.
On Wednesday, I posted about a recent District Court decision that held that "Paid Administrative Leave" is not an "adverse employment action.". Without such an action, an employee typically cannot raise a claim of discrimination under the legal framework for analyzing such claims.
The same district court judge, The Honorable Mark Kravitz, released a decision a
Not everything that happens in the workplace can give rise to a viable discrimination or retaliation claim. Various courts have emphasized that there must be an "adverse employment action". Otherwise, a claim will go nowhere.
But what exactly IS an adverse employment action? A new federal court case in Connecticut — in borrowing from judicial dictum
Last month, I highlighted a federal case in Connecticut where the court threw out an age discrimination claim because the evidence presented by the employee was not strong enough to survive a summary judgment claim.
A new federal court case however has allowed an age discrimination claim to proceed even while noting that while the
In employment discrimination cases, some of the day-to-day details of a person’s employment are sometimes disputed. Did an employee "continually" cry at work or only "occasionally" cry? And does it matter?
A recent Connecticut district court decision clarified that such trivial disputes about an employee’s background — without more — are not enough to be
CT News Junkie reports this morning that the CHRO has found "reasonable cause" in the gender discrimination complaint filed by former Fox 61 Reporter Shelly Sindland last year.
According to the report:
Anita Zakrzewski, a Connecticut CHRO investigator, concluded last month in a 23-page report that “the information gathered through the investigative process reveals that