Employment Law
On April 25, 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC—they regulate workplace issues like discrimination) issued new rules concerning businesses use of criminal background screening. The EEOC’s motivation behind these new rules is their concern that minorities are being unintentionally discriminated against in the workplace due to the higher number of minority arrests & convictions [...]
Thanks to Lisa Vaas, reporter for HP’s business blog Input Output for interviewing & quoting me in her 2/9/12 article What to Do When an Employee Cries (Legal) Wolf. The full text of the article is below. The title says it all. The article concerns what happens when employees threaten to sue in order to [...]
During my 3rd year of law school, my first article “AIDS and the ADA: Maneuvering Through a Legal Minefield,” was published in Commerce Clearing House’s the Labor Law Journal, Vol. 44, No. 7, July 1993. Due to the classic and outstanding status of my article (it’s been extremely lucrative for CCH ), you can’t easily [...]
A few days ago, on my LinkedIn Group, Charles Krugel’s Labor & Employment Law & Human Resources Practices Group, member Stephanie R Thomas, Ph.D., the owner of Thomas Econometrics in the Philadelphia, PA, area, posted an excellent examination of the use and importance of statistical analysis in disparate impact and disparate treatment discrimination cases. I [...]
It's great to receive recognition! For the 2nd year in a row, my blog/website has been named a top 100 employment law blog by Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor's The Delaware Employment Blog Top 100 Employment Law Blogs. This site came in at number 26 & is the only blog in the top 50 that's [...]
