Too often, plaintiffs’ lawyers file thin, borderline frivolous employment claims hoping for a quick nuisance-value settlement. The math is simple: it’s cheaper for an employer to pay a few thousand dollars to make a case disappear than to spend tens (or hundreds) of thousands defending it.
And yes, sometimes that works. The business case often
Jerry Merritt, an agency manager for the Texas Farm Bureau, claimed 816 hours of unpaid overtime. Even assuming he had been misclassified as an independent contractor, he still lost.
Merritt ran his role with near-total autonomy: He set his own schedule. He chose how much to work or not work. He didn’t track
When a bribery scandal hits a company, the corporate response is almost always the same: These were bad employees acting on their own.
Consider the current mess involving Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, the largest alcohol distributor in the United States.
“Can you just help with this for a minute?”
Not with an intent to steal wages, but with an innocent call for help.
In Arnold v. Marriott, a hotel employee alleges that during busy holiday seasons he and others were directed to help with conference and event setups while
The EEOC just voted 2–1 to hold that federal agencies may restrict bathrooms and other “intimate spaces” based on biological sex — and may exclude transgender employees from facilities consistent with their gender identity.
“Biology is not bigotry,” says EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas.
Except according to the Supreme Court, it very much is.
When an employee walks out the door holding your company’s stuff hostage, you have two problems: (1) your property, and (2) the story you’re creating for the inevitable lawsuit.
Have you ever seen a celebrity—someone whose work you genuinely love—and completely blown your shot at being normal?
Yeah. Same. It just happened to me.
My daughter and I were on our way to the House of Blues to see Descendents, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, and Nobro. Here’s a little secret: Frank Turner
A lawmaker sits silently during a high-profile speech. He holds up a simple sign protesting a racially offensive depiction of a former president by the current president. No shouting. No profanity. Just a message: this is wrong.
Within minutes, he’s escorted out.
Now take off the Capitol dome and put that scene in your workplace.
We tell ourselves a comforting lie about bad behavior around sports.
It’s just passion.
Just rivalry.
Just trash talk.
Until it’s racism.
Until it’s misogyny.
Until it’s culture.
Two recent soccer incidents make this point.
In a Champions League match, Real Madrid star Vinícius Júnior alleged that Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni directed a racist taunt at
Rock ‘n’ roll has a long history of protest music.
Right now, the amps are pointed squarely at ICE.
Springsteen has