Category: Employer Handbook

Retaliation cases often turn on timing, but this one shows that even years after the fact, employers can still be on the hook. Add in a secretly recorded “smoking gun” conversation, and you have a recipe for a costly settlement. TL;DR: The EEOC announced a $350,000 settlement with two Arkansas

When employees clock in, they expect to do their jobs, not sit through political speeches, anti-union campaigns, or religious lectures from their boss. New Jersey just turned that expectation into a legal right. TL;DR: On September 3, Governor Murphy signed A4429/S3302 into law. It bans “captive audience” meetings, meaning mandatory

It promised freedom, delivered litigation, and left us with… state law. Friends, colleagues, HR professionals, lend me your ears. We gather today to mourn the passing of the Noncompete Rule, a sweeping reform that promised to free 30 million American workers from contractual shackles but instead met its end in

Anxiety, grievances, and open-ended leave requests can leave HR stuck between compassion and compliance. A federal appellate court just clarified what the ADA does, and does not, require. TL;DR: An employee told her employer she could not return “until further notice” because of anxiety. The Eleventh Circuit held that such

Sometimes it is not the big-ticket accommodations that land an employer in court. It is the small ones, like a few stretch breaks, that can become costly mistakes. TL;DR: A federal judge in Illinois refused to dismiss an ADA lawsuit after an employee alleged that her employer denied requests for

Religious-accommodation requests are getting harder for employers to navigate, especially when they collide with policies meant to support transgender employees. The Seventh Circuit just reminded us that employers cannot lean on complaints or speculation alone. A jury will decide whether denying an accommodation is justified by a true “undue hardship.”