Category: Human Resources

A company retreat ended with coworkers pulling a man off an employee he sexually assaulted. The company kept him. TL;DR: An employer won a federal case alleging harassment and a firing in retaliation for reporting an assault. The harassment claim was filed too late, and records supported the company’s reasons

Your employee signed an agreement to arbitrate all employment disputes. But a single sexual harassment claim can bring an entire lawsuit, and every other claim with it, into court anyway. TL;DR: The Second Circuit joined the Sixth and Ninth Circuits in holding that properly invoking the federal law allowing sexual

A former EEOC employee says the agency’s LGBTQ+ rollbacks made his job intolerable, including changes he was required to help implement. A federal court has allowed his harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims to proceed. TL;DR: A former transgender EEOC employee can pursue harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims tied to LGBTQ+

If a manager has to explain why telling an employee to stop going to HR was legally defensible, the conversation has already gone poorly. TL;DR: An employer defeated a retaliation claim despite a manager linking promotions to an end to HR complaints. The decisive point: the employee’s relevant complaints described

Three days is a long time to wait to explain a religious objection. In this case, the wait came after the conflict, and that was enough to sink the accommodation claim. TL;DR: A Pennsylvania federal court dismissed, without prejudice, a spa employee’s Title VII and Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA)

A resignation letter can look like a tidy ending. This one left the school defending what happened before it arrived. TL;DR: A school’s invitation to discuss alternatives left an employee’s Sabbath conflict unresolved. Her accommodation and retaliation claims survived because a jury could find her resignation was forced. 📄 Read

Your employees work from kitchen tables across the country. Before eliminating their jobs, you may need to figure out which tables count together. TL;DR: Courts disagree about how federal WARN’s layoff-notice requirements apply to fully remote employees. A Florida employer won this case, but working from home does not establish

A meeting, a report, and a camera gave this employer plenty to describe. The employee’s testimony about what happened afterward gave a jury something to decide. TL;DR: An employer investigated alleged racial harassment, prohibited the language, and later installed a camera. But the employee testified that the comments continued. Her

A signature mismatch can make HR suspicious. It can also have an explanation worth hearing before someone gets fired. TL;DR: An employer fired an employee for allegedly falsifying FMLA paperwork after checking with two doctors who had not signed it. But it never followed a lead to the doctor who