Last month Walmart was hit, in headline making fashion, with a massive $31.2 million verdict in a New Hampshire disability and gender discrimination case. What makes this verdict particularly news-worthy is not only its size, but also the fact that the plaintiff...
This is the final installment of my analysis of the EEOC’s recently issued proposed Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues. Here are Part One (“You gotta be protected!”) and Part Two (“Was your employment action ‘adverse’?”). For an employee to have a...
Happy Valentine’s Day! (almost)Psychology Today had a great article by social psychologist and professor Theresa DiDonato about nine questions one should ask oneself before starting a workplace romance. Of course, the article was written primarily from a psychological...
A pair of recent federal appeals court decisions aptly illustrate the importance of an effective harassment policy that prohibits same-sex harassment and a prompt and meaningful response to allegations of such behavior. In Smith v. Rock-Ten Services, Inc., the U.S....
PAGA was enacted in 2004 to enable private litigants to recover penalties for Labor Code violations that previously could only be pursued by the Labor Commissioner and Labor Workforce Development Agency (“LWDA”). In an apparent “take back” of some of this power,...
