Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 21, 2009, 8:27 am
The Blog of Legal Times (aka BLT) reports that the Department of Labor (DoL) hired an additional 250 wage and hour investigators. And you thought no one was hiring! Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis (pi...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 19, 2009, 8:44 pm
The employment provisions of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) take effect on November 21, 2009... in other words, Saturday! Sounds like everyone has some homework to do over the...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 17, 2009, 9:52 am
Last Tuesday, a federal jury awarded two scientists more than $6.2 million in an age discrimination suit. Pennsylvania chemical company, PQ Corp., fired the pair of scientists when the company alleged...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 16, 2009, 6:09 pm
A brief update to my post last week about the surprising news that EEOC age bias complaints are down in 2009. That post included a quote from an incredulous attorney who claimed age bias claims were ...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 14, 2009, 6:02 pm
Over the summer, I posted an entry espousing the benefits of hand-washing. I've also done a series of posts highlighting employment-related topics in Super Freakonomics. Little did I know that the...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 11, 2009, 5:34 pm
By Sharon R. Miles Today, November 11, 2009, commemorates the celebration of Veterans Day, the annual, federal holiday honoring all veterans who have served in the U.S. armed forces… and currently a...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 10, 2009, 9:59 pm
Over the weekend, my wife and I attended a wedding in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although I've been there dozens of times, this was the first time I checked out the historic sites. What does this...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 9, 2009, 6:49 pm
It was a foregone conclusion that age discrimination claims were going to rise in 2009, wasn't it? I mean, just the other day there were reports of discrimination reports "flooding" the EEOC. A ...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 6, 2009, 3:36 pm
There’s been no shortage of news on the legislative front of the world of employment law. There’s so much that I’m doing a brief omnibus blog entry to close out the work week. - Congress passed...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 4, 2009, 6:52 pm
The Delaware Employment Law Blog released its Top 100 Employment Law Blogs (plus 10) for 2009 today. Guess who made the cut? Oh, you cheated! It's right there in the title of this entry. Yup, Law...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 2, 2009, 7:33 pm
Corporate Counsel featured an article today by Tresa Baldas, Employers Under Siege: Discrimination Complaints Flooding into EEOC. The article details a surge in discrimination claims filed with the EE...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Nov 1, 2009, 10:47 am
As I explained in an earlier post (noting the link between Title IX and Women Coaches), I will be passing along the interesting employment law tidbits I encounter in Levitt and Dubner's SuperFreak...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 31, 2009, 12:28 pm
Happy Halloween! This time of year is filled with pumpkin carving, candy, and costumes. Occasionally these traditions come to the office in the form of an office Halloween party. You'll often see...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 30, 2009, 4:59 pm
The law generally requires "employers" (as that term is defined) to post notices (aka posters) describing Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination. Well, there's a new anti-discrimination law ...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 28, 2009, 7:46 pm
In SuperFreakonomics, authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner return to examine more surprising phenomenon in their sequel to the bestseller, Freakonomics. They mix in a number of employment (law) r...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 26, 2009, 8:07 pm
"Now for the first time in our nation's history, women are half of all U.S. workers . . . ." - The Shriver ReportThat's huge news... right? According to the Shriver Report, published by the Ce...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 23, 2009, 8:38 pm
Every new judicial opinion is a new adventure; you never know what you're going to read. Earlier this month, the federal court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued an opinion containin...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 21, 2009, 9:35 pm
I was reading the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission Annual Report 2007-2008 (.pdf) tonight and it had plenty of "fun" facts and figures. At the risk of oversimplification, the PHRC is pretty mu...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 19, 2009, 9:13 pm
In the last ten days, the EEOC has issued two important notices relating to the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). 1. ADA and H1N1First, the EEOC issued Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace ...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 17, 2009, 8:07 am
I'm sure you remember Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven white firefighters case. In that case, the white firefighters filed a Title VII disparate treatment claim when the fire department refused ...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 13, 2009, 8:28 pm
There exists an ongoing controversy in the field of employment law regarding the use of arbitration clauses in employment contracts. In short, employers make employees sign contracts when they begin e...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 11, 2009, 9:16 am
Business Insurance Magazine reports:"failure to accommodate an employee suffering from seasonal affective disorder with natural light could run afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act."The operat...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 7, 2009, 8:25 pm
The Congressional response to Gross v. FBL is officially underway: There was a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning. You can follow the link and click "Webcast" to watch video of the hear...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 5, 2009, 9:04 pm
Two women accused Sgt. Clinton Knowles of engaging in what he himself labels "inappropriate and obnoxious behavior." One woman says he "smacked her on the butt" and the other claims he was grabbing h...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Oct 3, 2009, 5:50 pm
Last summer, the Supreme Court recognized an individual right to bear arms, striking down the federal government's D.C. gun ban in Heller. Now, the Supreme Court has decided to hear a case, McDon...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 30, 2009, 7:24 am
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on, and I quote, "Workplace Fairness: Has the Supreme Court Been Misinterpreting Laws Designed to Protect American Workers from Discrimina...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 29, 2009, 7:17 pm
If you're anything like me, the mere mention of "the money you could be saving by switching to Geico" will leave, "I always feel like, somebody's watching me" stuck in your head for days. Wel...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 26, 2009, 9:58 am
Over the summer (I can't believe summer's over, what happened?), I posted an entry Vacation Time - Use it or USE IT! That post described a proposal by employment lawyers for employers to forc...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 24, 2009, 8:48 pm
Ladies and gentlemen, it's official - Lawffice Space is on Facebook. Now I know what you're thinking, "Phil, I already subscribe to the Lawffice Space emails, subscribe in a reader, 'favo...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 22, 2009, 8:31 pm
Tonight's post is my first dual HIPAA and ADAAA post... I'm pretty sure it will be my last as well. Contrary to the tongue-in-cheek title, the letters are not random, in fact they are acronyms...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 20, 2009, 7:46 pm
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke The Sun-Sentinel reports that a Florida-based law firm just got hit with a $4.5 million judgment for its failure to communicate...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 17, 2009, 6:59 pm
On this date, in 1787, the members of the Constitutional Convention signed the document that would define our nation, the United States Constitution. What should I write about? There are so many thi...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 16, 2009, 8:34 pm
The National Law Journal reported today on two cases in which employers were required to pay for their employees' weight-loss procedures. Both cases were similar in that the employees claimed the...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 14, 2009, 6:46 pm
In my last post, Discrimination's Price Tag, I described a suit brought by an individual college math instructor that resulted in a $1.2 million judgment. Hopefully that sounded like a lot of mon...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 10, 2009, 7:56 pm
Occasionally, I like to put actual dollar figures on cases so my readers can get a feel for the consequences of discriminatory employment actions. The August issue of Pennsylvania Jury Verdict Review...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 9, 2009, 8:40 pm
In some ways, a recent Ohio Supreme Court case is one of the most boring employment law cases ever. After all, "the evidence in the record demonstrates that took unauthorized breaks from her workstat...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 7, 2009, 6:12 pm
Just a quick reminder that important new e-verify provisions take effect tomorrow (or if you are an email subscriber, today!) on September 8, 2009. Federal contractors and subcontractors will be requ...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 5, 2009, 7:03 pm
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is known for many things: Cookouts, a day off from work, the end of summer, and the day after which you can no longer wear white pants. The U.S. Department o...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 3, 2009, 8:34 pm
Before I am accused of using a misleading title, let me state unequivocally that the 3d Circuit did not hold Title VII covers homosexuals. But in Prowel v. Wise Business Forms, Inc., Title VII potent...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Sep 1, 2009, 5:43 pm
The Supreme Court decided Gross v. FBL Financial on June 18, 2009. Of course, Lawffice Space was there... well, not there... but here, online, with a summary of the now-famous ADEA case. Tonight'...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Aug 30, 2009, 10:21 am
In the first month of Lawffice Space, I posted an entry titled The Magic of Twitter. In short, the post explained that I announced my blog on Twitter to my then-17 followers and due to rebroadcasting...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Aug 27, 2009, 8:40 pm
From town hall protests to prime time presidential broadcasts, the health care debate is in full swing. It's not just politicians and protesters weighing in on the matter but private employers as...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Aug 25, 2009, 8:00 pm
"[E]veryone knows that a juror's job is protected during her absence, right?"If you didn't know (and are therefore, apparently nobody), the statute is 28 U.S.C.A. § 1875 which reads in part:"...
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Philip Miles posted an article on Lawffice Space - Aug 23, 2009, 5:12 pm
I bet you thought I forgot! Between the media circus, the heated discussion in legal circles, and my own extensive blogging on the matter, I was essentially all Ricci-ed out. Now that I've had som...
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