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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 10-01-2014 Eva Sala was a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent working in the US Virgin Islands. She asked to extend her tour of duty [...]
Posted 09-08-2014 A surprising (to many) decision from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was just published last month on the issue of what mental [...]
Posted 08-19-2014 On July 14, 2014, the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) issued its first enforcement guidance on pregnancy discrimination in more than 30 years. [...]
Posted 07-02-2014 Michael Barrett worked for Salt Lake County for 14 years. For years he’d received promotion after promotion, good review after good review. The [...]
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 [...]