Posted August 18th, 2015. As appeared on Human Resource Executive Online By Mark McGrawTuesday, August 18, 2015 Four years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes. The Court’s decision in that pivotal case struck down what would have been a class-action employment action involving 1.6 million Wal-Mart employees, and led experts to predict that achieving class…
We spend a lot of time on this blog talking about discrimination. Sometimes, we talk about specifically about retaliation for complaining about illegal discrimination, which is itself illegal. But I want to talk today about a subset of retaliation that we haven’t talked about much on this blog: Retaliation against whistleblowers. Retaliation against whistleblowers is an issue that certainly affects…
Should a feminist (married) woman accept payment from her husband for a job well done? This question set the internet hive a flutter since a piece in The New York Times detailed the so-called “wife bonuses” allegedly commonly collected by hyper-privileged women on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. According to Wednesday Martin, author of the forthcoming book “Primates of Park Avenue,” the wives of the…
The good news: This summer, women took a majority of seats on the Austin City Council for the first time ever. The bad news: The City felt the need to “prepare” staff to work with women by putting on a training conducted by tone deaf speakers propounding culturally incompetent and antiquated gender stereotypes. Assistant City Manager Anthony Snipes organized the…
Last month, Debra Harrell gave her 9-year-old daughter a cell phone and allowed her to play at a nearby park (less than a mile away from her job) for the day while she reported to work at McDonalds. Normally, Harrell had her child accompany her to work where she sat at a table and played on a laptop. However, as…
Entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital for their ventures will often pay “finders” a fee to source capital successfully from prospective investors. Oftentimes, these finders are not registered securities broker-dealers and are unschooled in the fair and equitable principles of the securities trade. Because their fee is based on the success of the securities sale, the finder’s approach can be aggressive…
Not everyone will recognize the name Lee D. Weiss, but many might know or have heard of people just like him, who have engaged in a similar type of misconduct. So who is this man and what did he do? Lee D. Weiss was the primary owner and served as the managing partner of Family Endowment Partners, LP (“FEP”). FEP…
For women of New York, it’s about to get much easier to bring gender discrimination cases. A ten-point bill called the Women’s Equality Act had been languishing in the New York State Senate for nearly two years because of controversy over a plank that would have shored up abortion rights. But in March, Democrats in the New York State Assembly and women’s…
Earlier this month, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act—a bill requiring employers with at least 15 employees to provide 10 days of paid vacation. The Bill currently has a whopping 0 cosponsors, which is exactly the same number of co-sponsors Representative Alan Grayson’s Paid Vacation Act (a similar bill) received in the last Congress. Despite evidence of overwhelming public support for such legislation,…
I recently discovered what has now become one of my all-time favorite Tumblrs: Congrats, you have an all male panel! The site compiles photos and flyers of “all male panels, seminars, events, and various other things featuring all male experts” from all over the world and gives each a David Hasselhoff stamp of approval. The result is a hilarious and profound commentary…