February 2014

I follow proposed employment legislation in Maryland during our legislative session, which runs from January to April each year. More and more, the bills that are proposed use California statutes as models, which is troubling. Employers in our State certainly do not want Maryland to become the “California of the East!” More troubling still, in

One of the most challenging issues that my clients deal with is managing employee leave rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act.  Getting employees to come to work on a regular basis can be frustrating – hair-pulling, teeth-gnashing frustrating.  So the recent case of Mecca v. Florida Health

Even smart people can get tripped up on personnel decisions.  Harvard, for example, ran into this problem in Pierce v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

That case involves an African-American university police officer claiming race discrimination and retaliation in the denial of three promotions and being placed on foot duty.  The court threw