Nasir and Matt discuss how a Houston nightclub is facing claims of discrimination for charging customers different cover charges based on their race.
October 28, 2015
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The World Series starts today, and since the Royals haven’t won one since (or before) 1985 and the Mets haven’t won one since 1986, we can say for sure that we are going to see something very rare this year. However, something else has been going on in the baseball world that is much more…
October 27, 2015
Diversity in the workplace, a totally laudable goal, is actually harder to achieve than many employers appreciate, and ill-conceived or badly executed efforts can actually make things worse, opening the door to legal liability. To get fuller picture of the issue, it may be worth thinking about the topic in three different ways: what the…
September 17, 2015
Nasir and Matt discuss how racism led to employees getting fired and another instance where a judge overturned a decision to terminate a racist employee.
August 17, 2015
It’s a fact that small to middle-sized businesses may face significant costs and disruption when a pregnant employee requests light duty work or asks to take pregnancy leave, even if that leave is unpaid. It is especially true if she has an important role in running things. Is it legal for an employer to refuse…
April 2, 2015
Nasir and Matt join forces again in San Diego to discuss the Supreme Court decision regarding the UPS discrimination against a pregnant employee and failure to provide reasonable accommodation.
April 1, 2015
The guys end the week by talking about businessesdenying job applicants unless they are tobacco free.
February 13, 2015
Happy New Year! Last year was a big one for changes in employment related law in California, and many of these changes have an effective date of January 1, 2015. We covered some of these before in other blog posts, but here is a reminder of the more significant ones. We have also added a…
January 8, 2015
Nasir and Matt discuss the pregnancydiscrimination case against AutoZone that resulted in a $185 million verdict. They also answer, “Can I protect our trade secrets in a confidentiality agreement?”
November 24, 2014
Why don’t health clubs that restrict their membership to women run afoul of discrimination laws? Or for that matter, why don’t any clubs that restrict membership by gender violate the law? The answer, in short, is that sometimes they do, but not always. The question involves Title VII of the Civil Rights Act as well…
October 14, 2014
Nasir and Matt kick off the next 100 episodes by discussing the religious discrimination lawsuit involving Abercrombie. They also answer, “The retailer argues in its brief that job applicants should not be allowed “to remain silent and to assume that the employer recognizes the religious motivations behind their fashion decisions.”
October 6, 2014
Nasir and Matt end the week by discussing the recent study that shows how women may be discriminated against for the possibility of having children. They then answer the question, “Can my work monitor my cell phone usage at work if it’s not a company phone?”
September 5, 2014
