Last year I talked about how the new era of sexual harassment claims was coming. The open question was: Would the number of claims actually increase?
The answer to that is now known: Yes.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its preliminary data regarding workplace harassment today. And it’s findings shouldn’t be a surprise if
If you’ve been playing close attention, this blog has been a bit quiet of late. Indeed, it’s probably the longest stretch between posts in the 11 years I’ve been doing this.
It’s not for lack of ideas.
Rather, after many years of spouting off (which, after all, is the underlying purpose of the blog), I
Trying to follow both state and federal wage and hour laws isn’t that hard.
But it isn’t that easy either.
Let’s say you’re a restaurant with a waitstaff. Like most restaurants nowadays, your customers pay by credit card and you, the employer, have to pay the credit card company a percentage on each sale.
You
Typically, in our court system, we operate under the “American Rule” which means that parties have to pay their own attorneys’ fees in cases, regardless of whether they win or lose. (Contrast that with the English Rule which is a “loser pays” system.)
But there is one big exception to the American Rule — and
Cars. Lots of really fancy cars.
That about sums up my Sunday in which I went to the Concorso Ferrari & Friends car event in West Hartford Center. It has one of the biggest collections of ultra-expensive cars in the state — all to benefit the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.
What I wouldn’t do to
It was the last semester of my senior year in college – right after Spring Break – when I heard the news that would forever shape my views on mental illness.
A friend and fellow editor of the college newspaper I worked for, Steven Ochs jumped to his death from one of the many bridges
Earlier this week, I made my long-awaited (ok, long-awaited by ME) return on WNPR’s ever-popular “Where We Live” show.
As always, I’m thankful for the invite.
My appearances date back quite some time (remember pizza and child labor in 2010?), so it was nice to be back in the studio to talk about age discrimination
You might think the title of this post is a bit self-serving or even self-promotional. Is this post just going to be a backhanded way to hire me, an employment law attorney?
I want to dissuade you of the notion because that’s actually not my purpose. (Really.)
But over the years, I’ve had friends and
With Memorial Day coming up this weekend, it’s often a time (or it ought to be a time) to reflect on the sacrifices made by our military. And at the same time, consider how we, as a society, treat our veterans.
This issue was highlighted for me many years ago. During a court proceeding
As I noted earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court has approved of the use of class action waivers in arbitration agreements with employees.
My colleague, Gabe Jiran, has a recap of Epic Systems v. Lewis on my firm’s blog, Employment Law Letter, that you can access here.
So, it’s a foregone conclusion that employers