Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new updated guidance on laws that prohibit retaliation against workers who engage in protected activities such as opposing unlawful discrimination or participating in a discrimination investigation. The EEOC issued its previous guidance in 1998 and since that time the U.S.…
Thousands of current and former employees of the restaurant chain Chipotle have reportedly returned paperwork indicating their intent to join a lawsuit against Chipotle for wage theft. The paperwork went out to current and former Chipotle employees in April and indicated that employees who worked “off the clock” for Chipotle…
Newsweek recently ran a story about a survey it conducted about sexual harassment in the news business. The Newsweek reporters heard from numerous women about experiences they had with sexual harassment. The trends were disturbing. Many of the women who responded to the survey said that they were forced to…
Former Fox News journalist Gretchen Carlson recently filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News news chief Roger Ailes that has received a lot of media attention. One aspect of the case that has received attention is Ailes’ efforts to force the lawsuit out of the public eye and into…
Last week, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) case which involved claims against Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations. The court held that Bridgestone unlawfully interfered with the FMLA rights of Lucas Hernandez, a tire builder Bridgestone fired because of attendance.…
The Washington Post Magazine recently ran an interesting story about the prevalence of ageism in the workplace. As the baby boomer generation ages, the problem of age discrimination is going to be more and more common. Unfortunately, age discrimination remains one of the more socially acceptable forms of discrimination in…
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana recently reversed a trial court’s decision to dismiss a pregnancy discrimination case before trial. The case involved the law firm Carabin & Shaw’s decision to terminate an employee named Cynthia Heinsohn days after she went out on maternity leave. The trial…
Election day is quickly approaching and there are already some very contentious political campaigns going on right now. Many people, including co-workers, share a deep interest in the positions and policies of various political candidates. Workers should be careful, however, about what they discuss at work. Many people mistakenly think…
A new poll conducted by National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that many people believe that work is bad for their health. Here are some of the key findings about working adults in the U.S.: 43% say that their…
Maggie Hasan, the Governor of New Hampshire, recently issued an executive order that prohibits employment discrimination against transgender people based on their gender identity or gender expression. The New Hampshire Law Against Discrimination already prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation but not gender identity or expression. Governor Hasan’s executive order…