Sometimes you just can’t make these things up. It seems that a Chicago car salesman named Stone was fired for wearing a Green Bay Packers tie to work the day after the Packers beat the Bears in the NFC Championship game. Stone said he wore the tie at on Monday in part to honor his 91-year-old grandmother, [...]
Supreme Court enlarges Title VII’s anti-retaliation provision
The Supreme Court today issued an opinion in the case of Thompson v. North American Stainless that expands the universe of individuals who may sue for workplace retaliation. Eric Thompson and his fiancée, Miriam Regalado, were employees of North American Stainless (NAS). In February 2003, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) notified NAS that [...]
More on posting to Facebook as protected activity
I previously wrote here about the NLRB’s claim that an employee was unlawfully fired for criticizing his boss on Facebook. Now, the Wall Street Journal has a very good article discussing that case and others involving social media in the employment context.
Government’s interests trump privacy rights of federal contractors
The Supreme Court ruled today on the privacy turducken case I first wrote about here. Not surprisingly, it favors the government’s right to conduct background checks over an individual’s right to privacy. In its decision in National Aeronautics and Space Administration v. Nelson, the Court held that the government has the right to ask reasonable [...]
Really!? Mistakes job applicants make.
Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up. CareerBuilder released a survey this week of more than 2,400 hiring managers which listed some of the most outrageous and common mistakes that job candidates have made in job interviews. When asked what the most outrageous blunders they had encountered interviewing candidates were, hiring managers reported the [...]
You can never be too thin?
A study published recently in the Journal of Applied Psychology suggests that thin women are paid more than their overweight colleagues, while thin men actually make less. According to ”When It Comes to Pay, Do the Thin Win? The Effect of Weight on Pay for Men and Women,” being thin earned women about $16,000 more a year, on [...]
EEOC slaps Supervalu over firing of injured employees
Supervalu Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million to 110 workers to resolve allegations it systematically terminated disabled employees at Chicago supermarkets, one of the largest such settlements under the Americans With Disabilities Act. A federal judge in Chicago signed a consent decree this week resolving a 2009 class-action suit the Equal Employment Opportunity [...]