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If you think federal law prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on their sexual orientation, you would be wrong. In fact, while federal law - specifically Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - does outlaw workplace discrimination based...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced its results for fiscal year 2017, and the agency says it won $398 million nationwide in compensation for victims of discrimination. The agency also says it reduced its charge workload to its lowest level...
The New Year is a time of fresh beginnings. Employers may want to take advantage of an opportunity to revisit their employee handbooks. Many employers have already begun this process as workplace sexual harassment claims erupted at the end of last year. Workplace...
On January 12, 2018, the Maryland General Assembly enacted the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act (by overriding the Governor's veto). The law adds mandatory sick leave requirements for Maryland Employers. The law is the first of its kind in the State. Below...
The #MeToo movement has the attention of nearly every employer in the country. Those who haven't been paying attention should. The war against sexual harassment in the workplace has employers examining their own policies, revisiting trainings and making it clear that...
The #MeToo movement has the attention of nearly every employer in the country. Those who haven't been paying attention should. The war against sexual harassment in the workplace has employers examining their own policies, revisiting trainings and making it clear that...
Does your business culture actually support discrimination and harassment in the workplace? If so, how can you make meaningful changes and limit your liability? Take a lesson from Dickens: Scrooge's three ghosts represent choices and their consequences: (1) the past...
Yesterday, WMAL Radio (105.9PM/630AM) featured Linda Hitt Thatcher, Managing Partner of , who discussed the latest sexual harassment allegations made against public figures. You can listen below: WMAL-Linda Hitt Thatcher On Sexual...
Remember Anita Hill? She is the attorney and academic who, in 1991, became a public figure when she accused Clarence Thomas, the then-Supreme Court nominee, of sexual harassment when he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and--wait for the irony--at the...
In Villa v. Cavamezze Grill, LLC, the plaintiff--a restaurant manager--reported to the Director of Operations that two employees claimed that a third employee offered them raises in exchange for sex. The DOO notified the CEO who instructed him to investigate. The...