A Mexico vacation while on sick leave is an easy headline. The employer’s defense required a closer look at two separate decisions. TL;DR: A police department defeated discrimination, accommodation, and retaliation claims brought by an officer demoted for violating its sick-leave policy and later discharged because she could not perform
A termination letter can become a vocabulary quiz once litigation starts. Every changed adjective gets its own exhibit. TL;DR: An employer defeated race and age discrimination claims because its explanations consistently described the same policy violations. Differences in wording and minor factual discrepancies did not show that the stated reason
My name is Eric Meyer, a founding partner at Pierson Ferdinand LLP. You may know me as the guy who turns someone else’s workplace disaster into your morning reading. If you’ve ever read a post here and thought, “Please tell me our managers aren’t doing that,” we’re practically kindred spirits
If you want the EEOC’s attention, do this: send an email — in red highlight — seeking “ONLY H1B” applicants. It’s one of the allegations in a new federal lawsuit, part of the agency’s push against anti-American bias. TL;DR: The EEOC sued an IT staffing agency under Title VII, alleging