by Sam Briggs | Apr 28, 2020 | Employment Law
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently gave South Carolina businesses broad power to bend the rules during the COVID-19 outbreak. The alterations are mostly updates to accommodations the agency made during the H1N1 swine flu outbreak. According to the...
by Sam Briggs | Apr 14, 2020 | Employment Law
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforces federal job discrimination laws. Curiously, most of this agency’s enforcement docket does not include bias claims. Instead, the EEOC focuses on retaliation. These claims are a bit easier to prove in court....
by Sam Briggs | Apr 7, 2020 | Employment Law
A bias complaint that began with a controversial internal memo is now a full-blown investigation. In August 2019, Chelsey Glasson uploaded a memo to the company’s server entitled “I’m Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here is Why.” Glasson alleged...
by Sam Briggs | Mar 5, 2020 | Employment Law
They passed a law in ‘64 to give those “who ain’t got a little more.” The landmark Civil Rights Act also prohibited most forms of employment discrimination. Over the years, Congress expanded and strengthened these prohibitions with a series of supplemental laws....
by Sam Briggs | Feb 18, 2020 | Employment Law
The existing joint employer rule is over a half-century old. In January 2020, the Department of Labor finally updated the controversial rule. Joint employer relationships often occur in franchise businesses. For example, 7-11 has over 55,000 worldwide locations. 7-11...
by Sam Briggs | Jan 21, 2020 | Employment Law
This issue is important. Employees are entitled to financial benefits, like a minimum wage and eligibility for a group health plan. Additionally, legal employees have legal protections, in terms of anti-discrimination laws and unionizing activities. Generally, unpaid...
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