A jury in an Atlanta Federal Court has determined that a white male was discriminated against according to a recent article by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Plaintiff, former Human Services Deputy Director Doug Carl, filed suit five years ago when he was denied the Human Services Director’s job in favor of a black female.
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Augusta National Golf Club has admitted two women as members: financier Darla Moore and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
I don’t know much about golf, but I do know that Augusta National is hallowed ground in the minds of most golfers. As an employment lawyer, I also
Ellen Pao is a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers. She has recently filed a lawsuit against the company for sexual harassment as the Huffington Post reports. Pao alleges that she was harassed by a senior partner in the firm who began excluding her from key meetings
Over the last several years virtually every drug company has been hit with a lawsuit about whether its drug representatives or “drug reps” are exempt from overtime. In case you have missed them on TV or in the doctor’s offices, drug reps are the folks who visit your doctor hawking drugs from all of the
Guest author and Looper Reed tax attorney Jennifer Gurevitz offers some thoughts on the recent Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare.
Now that the Supreme Court has confirmed that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional and has upheld the individual mandate providing that all Americans have minimum essential health insurance coverage or pay
Everything is bigger in Texas. Darn right. Well, maybe this is one distinction Texas businesses could have done without. In recently released EEOC complaint results for 2011, Texas ranked first. One in ten complaints across the US were filed in Texas. Of those claims filed in Texas, race charges came in first, followed by
Desperately trying to retain its relevance in a world where unions are going by the wayside, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken up the issue of what employers can do about employee posts on the internet.
Under the National Labor Relations Act employees are permitted to engage in “concerted activity” which is to
It turns out the story of the Florida law firm employees fired for wearing orange is NOT over. (For those not up to speed, see my post from March 20, 2012.) At a recent legal seminar on the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), I learned that the orange clad crew has filed a complaint with
No. I’m not talking about aliens – not even the kind from another country. I’m talking about highly trained, extraordinarily dedicated police dogs, like the one who recently got the job done on his first night at work in Houston according to KPRC 2 News.
You all may
Facebook privacy among employees has been discussed for a long time, but a couple of recent events have brought the issue to the forefront of public discussion. At the beginning of the month Forbes reported on a lawsuit moving forward in Minnesota against a school district that requires Facebook passwords of students. Then, last Friday,