Over the last week or so, various blogs have discussed a proposed rule released by the EEOC which discusses and defines what is meant by the "reasonable factor other than age" (RFOA) defense under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).
Not familiar with it? The Employer Law Report sums it up nicely here:
"Progressive Discipline" is a policy or practice that, over the years, has fallen out of favor with some employers.
What is it? It’s a practice — found also in some collective bargaining agreements — that typically provides a multi-step disciplinary process for many employment policy violations: a verbal warning, a written warning, a suspension, and
In a hearing earlier today, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discussed the "devastating impact" that age discrimination has on workplaces and employees.
For employers, however, the most notable item from the hearing was the release of new technical guidance regarding separation agreements and the waivers of age discrimination claims contained in such agreements. You can
The filing of a discrimination complaint at the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities has certainly garnered a wide variety of responses from the local and national media. Indeed, yesterday, I was one of several invited guests to appear on WNPR’s "Where We Live". (You can download the podcast here.)
But what’s
Over ten years ago, former WFSB (Channel 3) news anchor Janet Peckinpaugh shook up the media market in Hartford with claims of gender and age discrimination against her former news station. She claimed that she had been let go because she had gotten too old.
At the time, the case had all the elements of
Leave it to the Supreme Court to come out with a decision on discrimination while I’m attending the ABA Presidential Summit on Diversity (which I’ll be live-tweeting and blogging from starting on Friday).
So, while I’ve been tied up for most of the day, the news sites and employment law blogs have been a buzz
Tell the truth. Be consistent.
Those are common refrains among lawyers to clients. W
hy? Because inconsistencies are a crucial way for opposing parties to establish their case.
In employment cases, an employee may not have "direct" evidence of discrimination, but courts allow an employee to piece together evidence based on circumstances, including evidence that
Attorneys can go months — if not years — without Supreme Court guidance on employment law issues. But today, the Supreme Court issued its second employment-law related decision in as many days.
However, for the second day in a row, the Supreme Court issued a decision that, at the end of the day, isn’t really about
After a long day of taking depositions on Tuesday, there’s nothing like coming back to my computer 
with dozens of e-mail messages and hundreds of posts to read on the RSS feeds. And, when I saw that the U.S. Supreme Court decided an employment law case, my brain got excited for a brief moment (and
Lawyers representing the class of retirees from CIGNA will argue that their clients are entitled to "hundreds of millions" of dollars in retirement benefits as a result of misrepresentations made by CIGNA, according to a report in yesterday’s Hartford Courant.
The Courant — which finally reported on the decision 5 days after it came