Labor / Employment

Are we to assume that Santa is 'authentic' and, therefore, a woman cannot be Santa?

Keeping these tips in mind will help you keep your job and avoid being sued because of your holiday party.

Think our workplaces are enlightened places with equality for all? Think again.

Using The Constanza Method and faking a good work ethic won’t get you very far as a lawyer, no matter where you work.

What do their anti-harassment policies look like, and what are their practices?   

U.S. courts are split on LGBTQ protections, and until we get a ruling from SCOTUS, some employees will not have a legal remedy.

Sounds again like women have no other option than to be more like men to get ahead.

Kind of depressing that a woman needs to talk more like a man to be heard. Even when she is a judge.

The #MeToo movement has driven not only an increase in litigation, but also meaningful changes in the workplace.

Forget the screamers -- let it roll off your back. It's all about the money.

You basically shouldn't do anything Judge Kavanaugh did during his hearing.

Women should not have to dare to procreate. Nor be afraid for their jobs based upon their pregnancy or parental status.

* 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]

Could fat shaming and weight discrimination could become a thing of the past?

From an employment law perspective, what could some of the consequences be for an office prankster?

* 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]

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?

Discrimination law still spends a lot more time on hair than you might think.

* Charges filed in the murder of Stephen Shapiro against the victim’s brother-in-law. [American Lawyer]

* Over in the Sixth Circuit, Judge Amul Thapar launched his latest bid to be the Federalist Society’s next favorite son by taking the Supreme Court’s intellectually bankrupt Epic opinion and saying, “what if it didn’t go far enough?”[National Law Journal]

* As sexual abuse allegations against the Catholic Church continue to mount, Andrew Cuomo asks the state to expand the deadline to bring claims to the age of 50. Like every other Cuomo move, I assume this comes because Cynthia Nixon wanted it moved to 49. [New York Law Journal]

* Lawsuits focus on want ads specifically targeted to young demographics on social media. That certainly sounds like age discrimination, but with this judiciary, I’m sure it’s a violation of the employers’ Free Speech rights to engage in fair hiring practices. [NPR]

* “According to the massive DOJ settlement, RBS didn’t just commit fraud—its employees also chatted about it via email and text.” Ladies and gentlemen, the people we entrust with our economic well-being! [Corporate Counsel]

* Evan Greebel tried to get out of his conviction. He failed. [Law360]

* Masterpiece Cakeshop is back, explaining why they shouldn’t have to serve trans people now. [Courthouse News Service]

* Oh, and obviously Trump is going to fight the Mueller subpoena because telling the truth is hard and creating a constitutional crisis is easy. [Washington Post]

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