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Here are articles on hot employment law issues that effect managers and supervisors in everyday work situations for your ongoing learning. To search by specific workplace issues, we have also organized these articles into a list of FAQs.
Two recent cases make clear that employers can lose for retaliation, even if they win on the original discrimination or harassment case. In one case, [...]
Back in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that an employer may be liable for a constructive discharge. Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders, 542 U.S. [...]
Employers in California need to be aware of the State’s new amendments to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) regulations that went into [...]
Newly promoted supervisors may not know their legal responsibilities, and their new positions may go to their heads, which could have severe legal consequences. That’s [...]
One day at work, Jeffrey Smith saw another employee, Jim Leonard, come up behind a co-worker, grab the co-worker in the rear end, then sniff [...]
You’d like to think it would never happen, but you know that it can. Assaults, stabbings, even shootings can occur at your workplace. According to [...]
A company that responded to a racial harassment complaint with 10 minutes of training must now go to trial to try to prove it took [...]
On November 10, 2015, Legal Momentum (The Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund), the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and the EEOC [...]
Posted 11-10-2015 Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding gay marriage, new laws—and new interpretations of old laws—are being proposed to protect the employment rights [...]
Posted 07-12-2006 Sandra White was the only female in the maintenance department at a railroad. Her duties included forklift driving, removing and replacing track, cutting [...]