Balancing the religious rights of employees – or the absence of one – against an employer’s needs can be tricky. Here are some legal points to consider.
Challenging a disabled employee’s capacity for work can backfire badly, especially if it appears it was based on disability discrimination and harassment.
Generally, obesity alone does not qualify as a disability under the ADA. However, some workers are protected from obesity discrimination; more may soon be.
Your dress code must allow some leeway for religious exemptions. The EEOC takes religious discrimination seriously and has been aggressively going after employers that...
Never discount the possibility that some of your supervisors may be completely clueless about the legal trouble they might cause while managing pregnant staff.
Final statewide sexual harassment policy and training guidelines have finally been issued in New York, and the rules differ significantly in several important ways....
Your managers probably know it’s unlawful to discriminate in hiring and firing based on a person’s age or disability. But what about repeated teasing based on those...
There are a few workplace scenarios in which the nature of the job makes it more likely that sexual harassment may occur. But even then, once an employer knows...
