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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.
Posted 06-10-2014 Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers with at least 15 employees are required to reasonably accommodate the sincere [...]
Posted 05-27-2014 Fifty years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it should be clear that remarks about lynching and the Ku Klux [...]
Posted 04-12-2014 My sister is a lifelong New York Mets fan. Good years and bad years alike, she goes to their games, watches them on [...]
Posted 03-04-2014 Late last year, in a case that made national news, the retailing giant Abercrombie & Fitch finally seemed to throw in the towel [...]
Posted 02-17-2014 The opening of a recent federal appeals court opinion is startling: “The facts of this case should greatly concern every taxpaying citizen of the [...]
Posted 01-08-2014 Happy 2014 from all of us at Fair Measures! The new year has brought with it a number of important employment law changes [...]
Posted 12-06-2013 One of the enjoyable things about being an employment lawyer is reading court opinions describing people acting oddly. Here’s one of the oddest: [...]
Posted 11-06-2013 Employees are eligible for various job-protected leaves of absence, as provided by federal and state laws. Reasons for leaves include but are not [...]
Posted 10-07-2013 Managers and supervisors learn that state and federal discrimination law requires them to explore a reasonable accommodation for disabled employees to enable them [...]
Posted 09-09-2013 One of the big issues facing employers today is: when can we discipline an employee for comments on social media sites? A very [...]