Archive for March, 2010

There Are Better Ways to Enforce A Dress Code

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Why do these kinds of cases only happen in Texas? In a head-scratching act of stupidity, the president of hatmaking company near Wichita Falls, Crowell Contract and Design, pulled a female employee’s pants down in front of her coworkers.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was not amused. It sued on the female employee’s behalf, claiming that [...]

What is the Maximum Leave an Employee Can Take?

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Sears Roebuck & Co. recently settled with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission a class-action lawsuit for $6.2 million, the largest monetary award for a single Americans With Disabilities Act (”ADA”) suit in EEOC history.
The accusation against Sears was that the company discriminated against the disabled because it had an inflexible policy that allowed injured employees [...]

EEOC Ordered to Pay Employer’s Attorneys’ Fees

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Many employers have felt victimized by the federal government’s sometimes overzealous enforcement efforts on behalf of employees against the companies they work for. For example, the current trend regarding any compensation mistake by the employer is to label it “wage theft” and prosecute the employer like a common purse snatcher. (Click here for more information [...]