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2011

• New Regulations Expand Rights of the Disabled
• Did You Know? Unwritten Complaints Trigger Retaliation Protection
• Meow! Cat's Paw Leads to Employer Liability
• Employer Sued Over Facebook Firing. Could Your Company Be Next?
• Supreme Court: Friends and Family Now in the No-Retaliation Zone
• A Look Back and A Look Ahead

2010

• Don't Let it Happen to You! Failure to Train Managers Creates Liability
• Why Legal Training for Managers Improves the Bottom Line
• Sexual Harassment: It's Not Just Against Women
• Retaliation: An Expensive Proposition
• U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Employer Right to Review Personal Text Messages
• Heads Up for Federal Contractors: Notify Workers About Their Union Rights
• Attorney-Client Privilege Trumps Employer Right to Monitor E-mail
• What Managers Need to Know and Do Under the New Health Care Reform Law
• Getting It Right! Managing Employee Performance
• Read 'em and Weep: Near-Record Number of EEOC Charges Filed in 2009
• Court to Blogger: No Constitutional Right to Be Mean
• What a Difference a Year Makes! The Obama Administration and Employment Law
• What Managers Need to Know and Do Under the New Health Care Reform Law
• Getting It Right! Managing Employee Performance
• Read 'em and Weep: Near-Record Number of EEOC Charges Filed in 2009
• Court to Blogger: No Constitutional Right to Be Mean
• What a Difference a Year Makes! The Obama Administration and Employment Law

2009

• Labor Law Changes on the Horizon
• FMLA expanded again
• Hello, GINA!
• How to Survive the Perfect Storm
• So You Think Sexual Harassment Doesn't Happen Like It Used To? Think Again!
• For most California companies 2009 is a compliance training year.
• When Johnny and Janie Come Marching Home Again: Re-employment Rights of Military Veterans
• Preventing Workplace Violence
• Your Legal Check-Up for H1N1 Flu
• Number One EEOC Best Practice: Train Your Managers!
• Employers Be WARNed!
• First Obama labor legislation expands rights to back pay
• US Supreme Court expands retaliation liability for employers, again!
• New FMLA regulations expand rights for military families

2008

• Is training legally required?
• Protecting your company in tough economic times: before, during and after layoffs
• More people now disabled under ADA, but employers still allowed to enforce performance and conduct standards
• Supervisor's informal policy leads to right to porn on work pager
• Can you afford e-training?
• Supreme Court Tells Employers to Document Legitimate Reasons for Layoff
• Genetic Discrimination Now Illegal
• Four Key Concepts Keep You Out of Court
• Layoffs Lead to Lawsuits
• Company Ordered to Pay Punitive Damages After Manager Denied ADA Training
• Company Wins Case With Good Investigation & Training
• Your Legal "To Do" List

2007

• Final Warning to Harasser Must be Enforced
• "Hostile environment" or "Environmental harassment" - which is the right term for sexual harassment?
• Company's Training Torpedoed by One Joke from Chairman
• Court Rules: Promote Employees with Foreign Accents
• Fed Study Finds Family Medical Leave Law Doesn't Help in Cases of Chronic Disease
• Prevent Lawsuits for Harassment and Discrimination based on Family Responsibility
• Government Orders Company to Stop Computer-Based Training
• DOD Loses Harassment Case for Failure to Train Harasser
• Company Wins Harassment Case When Victim Refuses Counseling
• "Addicted to Internet" Protected Disability?
• Manager Who Failed to Interview Black Applicants Guilty of Discrimination
• 2007 New Year's Resolutions to Stay Out of Court

2006

• Background Checks Prevent Discrimination
• Court Requires UPS to Hire Deaf Drivers
• Managers Required to Stop Harassment from Outsiders
• Harassment Victim Wins Retaliation Lawsuit
• "Smoking Gun" Not Needed to Prove Retaliation
• U. S. Supreme Court Expands Definition of Retaliation
• Can Employers Require Women to Wear Makeup?
• Supreme Court Overturns TV "Friends" Case
• Company Loses Harassment Case Due to No Training
• Employers Must Report Employees Who Surf Illegal Websites
• New Case Holds Terminations Must be Handled Consistently
• New Year's Resolutions to Stay Out of Court

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2005

• Screaming at Women is Sexual Harassment
• FBI Agent Loses Harassment Case, but Wins on Retaliation
• Office Affairs Lead to Successful Retaliation Claim
• Manager Wins Retaliation Case After Refusing to Fire Associate Illegally
• Screaming at Women is Sexual Harassment
• FBI Agent Loses Harassment Case, but Wins on Retaliation
• Office Affairs Lead to Successful Retaliation Claim
• Manager Wins Retaliation Case After Refusing to Fire Associate Illegally
• Landmark Case Holds Office Affairs Create Hostile Environment
• Company Wins Harassment Case After Supervisor Repeatedly Exposes Himself
• Employee Rights in the Blogosphere
• New Case Requires Supervisors to Report Their Manager's Harassment
• Federal Appeals Court Protects Transsexual
• Employee Wins Disability Harassment Case
• Workplace Sexual Assaults Require More Than Oral Warnings
• Employee Ordered to Pay $27 Million to Company

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2004

• Multiple Harassment Policies Can Hurt Company
• California Requires Supervisor Sexual Harassment Training
• Promoting Harasser to Management Leads to Retaliation Case
• New Overtime Rules Now in Effect
• When a Harassed Employee Quits, Your Troubles May Just Be Starting
• Employees Now Winning Claims Under ADA, FMLA
• New Overtime Regulations Announced
• Fairness on the Job-It's Not Just Monkey Business!
• U. S. Supreme Court OKs Preferences for Older Workers
• Religion and Sexual Orientation Diversity: When Values Collide
• When Harassment Turns to Romance -- "Victim" Returns Money Settlement
• Watch Out for the References Set-Up!

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2003

• Supreme Court Limits Damages in Harassment Cases
• Court Upholds Management's Right to Change Performance Ratings
• Losing Employee Ordered to Pay Employer's Court Costs
• Worker Rights When the Lights Go Out
• Court Rules Employee Does Not Have Right to be Laid Off
• Fire a Whistleblower, or Falsify Documents, and Go to Jail
• Employee Held to be Supervisor in Harassment Case
• Get Hip to HIPAA!
• Nod Your Head, Go to Court
• E-mail = Evidence: How To Protect Yourself
• $250 million settlement for age bias; California expands age protections
• Whistleblowers of the Year

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2002

• Who are these people?
• Pregnant employee gets punitive damages
• New California law on family leave
• Protect your company against punitived damages
• Employees win failure to hire cases - even though they didn't apply for the jobs
• Supreme court reverses key ADA decision
• OSHA's new ergonomics plan:an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of citations!
• Identity theft prompts new privacy protections for employees
• Avoiding retaliation claims: don't get mad, don't get even
• Americans with Disabilities Act - gutted for good?
• The limits on freedom of speech at work

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2001

• Employees allowed to have co-worker present in investigation meetings
• Federal harassment defenses not allowed under California law
• California employers required to grant sick leave for domestic partners
• EEOC updates discrimination guidelines
• After September 11: Employment law issues
• New cases & laws protect men who are "not man enough"
• Legal advice -- go see Legally Blond
• More men suing men for sexual harassment
• Steal trade secrets, go to jail
• Forced ranking - the right way
• Applicant who lies can be fired
• New law and regulations increase ability to hire foreign workers
• Snakes alive! or, What's a disability, anyway?

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2000

• A tale of two employers
• How NOT to comply with the FMLA
• New rights for "whistleblowers"
• New law limits overtime for some employees
• Employer can be sued for harassment in on-line forum
• Disabled employees need not follow regular procedures to achieve reasonable accommodation
• Employer required to accommodate escalating requests for accommodation
• Abusive racial comments directed at other employees can aggravate effects of sexual harassment
• Employee loses discrimination case, wins $3 million + for retaliation
• "Seinfeld" case reversed on appeal; management upheld on all counts
• Company loses case because of outdated Harassment Policy
• Employer policy, investigation, action wins harassment cases
• Harassment investigations should go beyond complaint
• Few people "regarded as disabled" under ADA
• Courts find proposed ADA accommodations unreasonable
• California holds employees not liable for harassment
• California law prohibits firing for off-duty conduct

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