Yesterday, I had the distinct pleasure of delivering the keynote address at Adnet Technologies’ Worksmart 2013. My thanks to Adnet (Christopher, Ed, Amanda, and Faith in particular) and the hundreds who attended. We were able to sprinkle in a few Star Trek references in light of the new movie out.
One of the issues
In my presentations on social media this year, I’ve talked a bit about the Phonedog v. Kravitz case where an employer sued a former employee who continued to use the company Twitter account he had started.
When the employee left, he merely changed the
United States District Court Judge Mark Kravitz passed away this week. He had been fighting valiantly against ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s Disease). But for those of us familiar with the disease, it has no cure and death is, for most, only a matter of time.
The Connecticut Law Tribune posted an article last night remembering
Back in February, I noted that a motion to dismiss in federal court — while still difficult to achieve — still had a pulse. That’s important for employers because it provides a mechanism for getting rid of frivolous claims early on with lower costs than federal lawsuits typically cost.
A new district court case gives
Here’s an interesting question: Does the Pregnancy Discrimination Act protect an employee who is no longer pregnant?
A federal court decision in Connecticut yesterday says, yes. The case, Canales v. Schick Manufacturing, Inc. can be downloaded here.
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) is part
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
Conventional wisdom is (and a recent Time article suggests) that many doctors have poor handwriting (though at least one 2001 study attempted to shoot down that theory by concluding that doctors’ handwriting is no worse than non-doctors). In fact, a 2001 study entitled "Medication errors related to potentially dangerous abbreviations" pointed to examples where the use of certain