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The CFO of Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools in Sioux City claims he was terminated because he is not Catholic. He recently sued the Diocese, the school, and the Bishop alleging his termination violated the law against discrimination on the basis of religion. Does he have a case?
Courts in the United States have uniformly recognized…
Robin Shea at Employment and Labor Insider had a great post a couple of days ago on common misconceptions about employment laws that trip up employers.
It is surprising how often employers think the law allows freedom to act without risk of bad consequences when precisely the opposite is true. I call them “employment law myths”. …
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently waded into this thorny subject. The case is Burlington v. News Corp., in which a white television reporter for the Fox affiliate in Philadelphia alleges he was terminated for using the “n-word”. The suit claims black employees who also had uttered the word were not even disciplined.
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Chances are your employees have sites on Facebook, MySpace, or some other online social networking site. It is not uncommon for these employees to post statements or photographs on those sites that are derogatory of their boss, their workplace, or their colleagues. Sometimes people post statements or explicit photographs that embarrass themselves, and by extension, you, as…