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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.
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 [...]
Posted 10-13-2015 The “faithless servant doctrine” may sound old-fashioned, but it can be a powerful tool for employers that are the victims of disloyal employees. [...]
Posted 09-09-2015 The jailing of Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples may have you wondering what you [...]
Posted 08-19-2015 Olympic decathlon winner Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlyn Jenner has focused national attention on transgender issues in our society. But one question dominates [...]