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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.
The EEOC, the federal agency responsible for preventing sexual harassment, recently recommended that training programs should include a discussion of workplace values like respect, [...]
A nationwide class action filed in federal court in California charges that hundreds of employers around the country, including T-Mobile, Amazon.com, Cox Communications, Inc., [...]
A manager recently asked me about the sexual assaults by Charlie Rose and Louis CK. He said, “I don’t get why they did those [...]
Roger Ailes. Bill O’Reilly. Harvey Weinstein. Celebrity chef John Besh. Michael Oreskes, senior vice president for news at National Public Radio. Mark Halperin, political [...]
Conventional wisdom in the employment law arena has been that federal laws criminalizing the use of marijuana protect employers who refuse to hire or [...]
Recent events in the news may have managers wondering what their responsibilities are when political issues enter the workplace. This could happen in many [...]
For years, the courts have reasoned that a manager who hires or promotes a minority candidate could not be guilty of bias if he [...]
In May, 2017, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) issued its Workplace Harassment Guide for California Employers, which focuses on ways [...]
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently expanded the use of the “cat’s paw” theory in FMLA retaliation cases and flatly disapproved of the [...]
The U.S. law that prohibits sex discrimination originally was intended to apply to straightforward cases where women were treated differently than men. But back [...]