It’s amazing to me how many employers think they can fire workers because they’re pregnant. Or refuse to hire a qualified employee because she “looks pregnant.”
So it ought to be no surprise that the EEOC is indeed reporting an uptick in the number of complaints it’s seeing regarding pregnancy discrimination (link to MSNBC.com story). […]

Is it necessary to have a lawyer in order to get through the required EEOC (or SHAC, in SC) process prior to filing suit over violations of certain federal laws (i.e., the provisions of Title VII, ADEA, EPA, etc.)?
No - strictly speaking, it isn’t necessary. However, it is a good idea. Here’s why: the process […]

A post from Ross’s Employment Law Blog, found here, discusses a new case from California, Faust v. California Portland Cement (PDF). Faust focuses on the California state version of the FMLA, as well as some commonly-asserted causes of action resting on state law, such as wrongful termination in violation of public policy. The court of […]

Thanks to Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer for this post, discussing the pending Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007 (HR 2015 - note the link in Employer’s Lawyer post is broken - use this PDF link to the GPO site). I’ll take a deeper look at this act over the weekend and blog about it more […]

We’ll definitely get back to our ongoing series on South Carolina’s employment handbook cases but first, a note from the blogosphere about a fascinating pending suit in which an employer’s interest in a healthy workforce smacks headlong into an employee’s right to control his own body.
 First the story, from the Boston Herald: Seems Scott Rodrigues […]

In what must have been a frustrating experience for the plaintiff, the 10th Circuit ruled recently that the Family and Medical Leave Act’s “50 employees/75-mile area” requirement (a prerequisite to an employee being deemed “covered” by FMLA’s provisions) is measured by way of surface miles, not “as the crow flies.” Hackworth v. Progressive Casualty Ins. Co., […]

Hip-hop magazine editor-turned-employment discrimination plaintiff Kim Osorio was compensated by a jury in New York with a multi-million dollar verdict this week, but the actual amount of that award is now being disputed by the defendants, The Source and some of its key personnel, and their attorneys.
The workplace described by Osorio’s attorney’s filings in the […]