A week doesn’t go by without a client asking me whether they can discipline an employee for exceeding the number of absences allowed on their FMLA medical certification. The fact pattern usually goes something like this: Johnny is an assemblyman at your 200-employee...
As the 2018 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament marches with madness to its Final Four weekend in San Antonio, Texas, where a season’s champion will be crowned, most fans are finally settling down from the tumult of...
A Michigan oral surgery practice has agreed to pay $47,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC. The agency alleged that it violated the ADEA by maintaining a policy that required employees to retire at at 65. The lawsuit stemmed from the firing...
The Sixth Circuit decision seems overall correct, although it contains some “woke dicta,” too. Last week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued its decision in the EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes case,...
Bloomberg reports that demand for anti-harassment training videos has surged in the #MeToo era. Here’s the problem, however. The Bloomberg article talks about training videos, the absolute worst kind of training. Anti-harassment training is all about creating an...
