As debate rises over whether or not employers can ban foreign languages from the workplace, one state has decided to weigh in.
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Tags: bilingual employees, Discrimination, EEOC, English-only, Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, national origin
Managers can often give the impression of bias even when they don’t intentionally discriminate. It looks like too many of them are doing just that.
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A manager asks an employee to take a drug test. He says it was because she looked high. She says it was her race. Read the facts of this real-life case and decide: Who won?
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Tags: Discrimination, drug tests, policy
If a manager makes a mistake that could give the appearance of bias, it’s usually up to HR to correct it and clean up the mess. But as a recent case shows, even that might not be enough to keep the company out of court.
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Tags: Carroll, Crawford, Discrimination, raise
If you let employees donate extra PTO to their co-workers, watch out for these legal pitfalls.
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Tags: Discrimination, donated PTO, leave-sharing, medical emergencies
A supervisor says he won’t sign the company diversity policy. Why? It’s against his religion.
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Tags: Discrimination, policies, religion
Most lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act involve a failure to accommodate an employee’s disability. But there’s another type of violation that can be just as costly for employers.
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Tags: ADA, association, Discrimination
Every company’s got ’em: chronic complainers. But when the complaints deal with discrimination, employers need to tread carefully. What can they do without risking a lawsuit?
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Tags: complaints, Discrimination, policy
A new study shows that treatment based on job candidates’ and employees’ weight is a common form of bias. In most states, there’s no law against that - but here’s how it can get firms in trouble.
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Tags: Discrimination, obesity, overweight
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just released its 2007 statistics. Here are the specifics about what they’ve been going after.
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Tags: Discrimination, EEOC, employment lawsuits
