By: Amy Epstein Gluck
Earlier, I came across this story (hello, insomnia) about one company (not our client!) who did not take the steps we have recommended in our blog to prevent harassment and retaliation, and is now being excoriated for it in the press.
This Buzzfeed article on the problems one tech start-up presents a textbook example […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
New York City employers and employers who have employees working in New York City, add a new protective class to your employee handbooks!
That’s right. On May 20, 2019, i.e., next week-ish, the New York City Commission on Human Rights will begin enforcing the city’s broad anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, and anti-retaliation law, to prohibit […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
I read yesterday that two current lawsuits claim that a celebrated steakhouse sustains a culture of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
In one of the two cases, a female server alleged that a regular customer grabbed her from behind and “placed his hand beneath her crotch and in between her thighs” while she […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
With this post, I join the multitude of bloggers writing about the historical announcement yesterday that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hear and decide a series of cases this fall to determine whether the federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of “sex,” Title VII of the Civil Rights […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
Employers must catch on: mental illness is prevalent in our workplaces.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), approximately 1 in 5 adults —43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences mental illness in a given year, and of those adults, about 1 in 25 adults in the U.S.—9.8 million, or 4.0%—experiences a serious mental illness in a […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
Who will rule Westeros? Or, in employment-speak, who will become the CEO of Westeros?
So, I love Game of Thrones. I really love it, and the last two years have been kind of brutal waiting for the start of the very last season.
But it’s here, and it’s tonight. TONIGHT.
And this got me thinking, if […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
Sex stereotyping is a form of sex discrimination.
Sex discrimination violates the law.
That is all.
Kidding!
But, really, this cannot be emphasized enough. One tire company learned this the hard way, i.e., expensively.
What happened? Well, the plaintiff, a person named Woodward, applied for a position at one of the tire company’s Colorado locations. Allegedly, a manager […]
By Amy Epstein Gluck
It’s a world of laughter, a world of tears, it’s a world of hope and a world of fears….
Sound familiar?
That’s right! It’s the Small World ride at Disney!
This refrain ran through my head as I read about a new lawsuit filed earlier this week against the Walt Disney Company (“Disney”) in Los Angeles County […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation gives us some indicator to answer this question.
Last week, the HRC released its 2019 Corporate Equality Index report— a national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equality.
Some results are as follows:
571 US companies and law firms made a perfect […]
By: Amy Epstein Gluck
So, I’m on a Southwest flight to New Orleans (woohoo!!) to hang out with my FisherBroyles partners for a few days. I am psyched!
Being me, on the flight, I started chatting with the flight attendant about her job and ask her about her experiences with sexual harassment in her workplace, which, being thousands […]