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New labor, employment, and benefits filings ticked upward this week after a dip the previous week (which was split by the Independence Day holiday on Wednesday). There were about 600 new cases in federal courts, with claims ranging from inequitable faculty support in New York City to too minimal wages at an Asian-American Bistro chain, to improperly denied disability benefits.

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Faye Cohen is one of the top rated Employment & Labor attorneys in Philadelphia, PA. She has met the stringent Super Lawyers selection criteria.

Mathew Flatow is one of the top rated Employment & Labor attorneys in Charlotte, NC. He has met the stringent Super Lawyers selection criteria.

As an employer, what do you do when one of your employees reports being sexually harassed by a vendor
Easy, right? You call the vendor's boss and say, "If you want to continue doing business with us,
then you will not send this person back to our company." The vendor wants your business, so her answer is, "Sir, yes sir! Anything you say, sir! We appreciate your business! Thank you for calling!" Problem solved.
But what if the employee reports being sexually harassed…

Richard Hayber is one of the top rated Employment & Labor attorneys in Hartford, CT. He has met the stringent Super Lawyers selection criteria.

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a "friend of the court" brief in a sexual orientation discrimination appeal, arguing that sexual orientation discrimination is "sex discrimination" prohibited by Title VII. (Thanks to EEOC General Counsel David Lopez for alerting me.)
I am a skeptic on this subject. Title VII was enacted in 1964, and legend has it that sex discrimination (as in, "discrimination against women") was…

Inquiring minds want to know
In the context of a lawsuit brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a recent court decision says that "regular attendance" is an essential function of the job. But what is "regular attendance"
Which made me think of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0
(I promise - this is neither a pro- nor an anti-Hilary Clinton post, but I couldn't resist the tie-in during this…

Our employment and labor lawyers at Laddey Clark & Ryan assist emplyers and individuals in labor law compliance, working conditions and conflict resolution.

I hope everyone had a happy holiday season. Now that we are into the nasty, brutish and short days of January (and especially for our friends suffering through Winter Storm Hercules ), I will try to warm things up with a couple of weird-but-instructive sexual harassment cases
The weather outside is frightful, but the fire's so delightful!
Our first case involves a type of harassment called "quid pro quo," which is thankfully unusual nowadays. "Quid pro quo" is Latin for "this for that."…

Although the following thoughts are not really connected to Labor Day, I felt like raising them now. Attorneys in general, including gentle folk like us employment lawyers (no bias here), are ofte…

McDonald's Corp. wields enough control over its franchisees that it should be jointly responsible for the working conditions of their employees, according

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 136,000 in September 2019. Employment continued to trend up in health care (+39,000) and in professional and business services (+34,000). Average weekly earnings in education and health services were $908.04 in September. Earnings for workers in professional and business services averaged $1,222.35 a week.

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"Come share your workplace concerns with me," said the spider to the fly
That controversy is not what I'm writing about today - at least, not directly.
After the initial NYT story ran, saying the workplace at Amazon is cutthroat -- still uses "forced rankings" and even encourages employees to secretly bad-mouth each other to their bosses, has employees who break down in tears on a daily basis, and put one woman on a Performance Improvement Plan the day after she returned to…