Late last month, a federal court in Connecticut took another look at the prohibition of discrimination “because of sex” with a case that has all the elements of a “can you believe it” fact-pattern that will surely be used for harassment training going forward.
The case involves a male employee posed for Playgirl nearly two
I confess that when I first heard the story last week that some Capitol Hill lawmakers were refusing to meet alone with female subordinates, I didn’t pay much attention to it. Lawmakers just being lawmakers.
(I was also reminded of the old Billy Joel song, I Don’t Want to Be Alone Anymore,
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