Labor / Employment
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CourtsSupreme Court Poised To Gut Legal Profession In At Least 30 States Because 'Freedom'
If there's one phrase that defines living under the current Court it's "this is why we can't have nice things." -
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Labor / Employment, On The JobHair On Fire, Heart Attacks, And … A Female Santa Claus?
Are we to assume that Santa is 'authentic' and, therefore, a woman cannot be Santa?
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Labor / Employment, On The Job3 Tips For Not Being Sued Or Fired Over Your Holiday Party
Keeping these tips in mind will help you keep your job and avoid being sued because of your holiday party. -
Labor / Employment, On The JobWanna Know What B**ches, Black Beans, And King Kong Have In Common?
Think our workplaces are enlightened places with equality for all? Think again. -
Labor / Employment, On The JobThe Costanza Method
Using The Constanza Method and faking a good work ethic won’t get you very far as a lawyer, no matter where you work. -
In-House CounselWhich Companies Tolerate A Sexually Harassing GC?
What do their anti-harassment policies look like, and what are their practices? -
Courts
SCOTUS Watch: 2 High-Profile LGBTQ Cases Before The High Court
U.S. courts are split on LGBTQ protections, and until we get a ruling from SCOTUS, some employees will not have a legal remedy. 
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Labor / Employment, On The JobMen Lie, Women Can’t Negotiate: What Does This Mean?
Sounds again like women have no other option than to be more like men to get ahead. -
Labor / Employment, On The JobEven Female Judges Get Harassed!
Kind of depressing that a woman needs to talk more like a man to be heard. Even when she is a judge. -
Labor / Employment, On The Job#MeToo Turns One
The #MeToo movement has driven not only an increase in litigation, but also meaningful changes in the workplace. -
BiglawAbusive, Sexist Partners In Biglaw: Better Just Endure It!
Forget the screamers -- let it roll off your back. It's all about the money. -
Labor / Employment, On The Job3 Interview Tips We Can Learn From Judge Kavanaugh
You basically shouldn't do anything Judge Kavanaugh did during his hearing.
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Labor / Employment, On The JobPregnant Then Screwed: Fired For ‘Daring To Procreate’
Women should not have to dare to procreate. Nor be afraid for their jobs based upon their pregnancy or parental status. -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 09.27.18
* Is anything going on today? [BBC]
* Anything at all? [USA Today]
* Dan Snyder and Cadwalader settle their massive malpractice suit so Snyder can focus full time on his team’s inevitably heartbreaking collapse. [Law360]
* Speaking of Washington’s football franchise, the heiress of its former owner is facing criminal charges for allegedly saying, “hurry up Jew” before beating a lawyer in the head until he bled. Lovely organization Washington’s got there! [Fox News]
* After months of bad press, America’s tech giants are calling for a federal privacy law. Or, more accurately, after California passed a privacy law, America’s tech giants are calling for a neutered federal law to preempt California’s. [Reuters]
* Since Rod Rosenstein might be leaving our public lives as early as today, here’s an in-depth look at one of his most bonkers cases. [Washingtonian]
* DLA Piper adds the former ambassador to Argentina as a special advisor. In other news, David Mamet’s son used to be the ambassador to Argentina? Was anyone else tracking that? UPDATE: OK, I feel vindicated that I hadn’t missed something huge. DLA Piper confirms that he’s not actually David Mamet’s son. I would’ve thought that would have been a bigger deal. [National Law Journal]
* Amazon’s commitment to screwing over its workers and leaving taxpayers to foot the bill runs right up to the NLRA line. But it’s cool since that law won’t survive Kavanaugh’s first year. [Gizmodo]
* Why PwC’s new Fragomen partnership is a big deal. [Law.com]
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Labor / Employment, On The JobFat Shaming At Work: The Beginning Of The End?
Could fat shaming and weight discrimination could become a thing of the past? -
Labor / Employment, On The JobThe Kitten In The Ceiling
From an employment law perspective, what could some of the consequences be for an office prankster? -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 09.07.18
* In case you missed it, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh refused to condemn President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary (specifically, his insults of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg), refused to say whether he believed same-sex marriage was a constitutional right, and once again denied discussing the Mueller probe with anyone at Kasowitz Benson. What will happen today? [Washington Post]
* President Donald Trump has reportedly called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “a dumb Southerner” and an “idiot” without an Ivy League law degree who “couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.” This Alabama Law professor wonders what’s so bad about a degree from Alabama Law. [New York Times]
* Per a new study from the American Bar Association, the sky is blue and women and minorities continue to face racial and gender bias within the legal profession. But, here are some tools to fight these problems. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Allen & Overy has published its 2018 gender pay gap figures, and it’s the first U.K. firm to include data from its “overwhelmingly male” partners in its disclosures. A&O’s median gender pay gap is 39 percent, a slight improvement. [Financial Times]
* It seems that the Justice Department no longer thinks that employers should be forced to consider job applicants with criminal histories, going against Obama-era guidance that the EEOC has been following since 2012. [National Law Journal]
* In an historic opinion, India’s Supreme Court ruled that gay sex between adults is not a crime, casting aside an “irrational, arbitrary, and incomprehensible” colonial-era law that made the act a punishable offense within the country. [Times of India]
* Fire alarms sounded at Miami Law as smoke poured through vents into a student lounge, and some students evacuated their classrooms, but others ran back in to save their laptops. Well, obviously — they’re law students, after all. [Miami Hurricane]
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Labor / Employment, On The JobAll Associates Report To Bible Study Class Now -- Or Get Fired!
If an employee is entitled to an accommodation based upon her religious beliefs, is she entitled to an accommodation based upon her lack of religious beliefs? -
Labor / Employment, On The JobWhy So Much Fuss Over Black Employees' Hair?
Discrimination law still spends a lot more time on hair than you might think.
