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As we said yesterday, this case is outside our labor and employment law area of practice, but I was really so entertained by it that I couldn’t let it go just yet. So, as inspired by Justice Elena Kagan and with apologies to Dr. Seuss:
The fish on the ship were just too small,
So…
We are delighted to announce that our firm and SEVEN individual attorneys have been recognized by Super Lawyers©, which is a national rating service of outstanding lawyers in multiple practice areas. Shawe Rosenthal was named the top mid-sized employment firm in Maryland in Super Lawyers’ recently-published 2014 Business Edition, which also recognized our 2014…
It’s fun to be able to toot your own horn. Eight – yes, EIGHT – of our attorneys have AGAIN been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2015, the oldest and most-respected peer review publication in the legal field. And our own Gary L. Simpler has been named Best Lawyers’ 2015 Labor Law…
Sometimes you read a case, and you just have to laugh. Kaiser v. Gallup, Inc. was one of those cases for me.
After being terminated from employment, the plaintiff sued her employer for discrimination. During the case proceedings, the employer discovered that the plaintiff had communicated with her cousin, who was an attorney, about…
So many of my clients are dealing with Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) abuse by various bad apple employees. I really feel their frustration because, as many of you know, it is really challenging to address FMLA abuse effectively given the law’s broad protections for employees. So it’s nice when, every once in a…
In light of pandemic fears over the past several years, health care facilities have been more aggressive about mandating employee flu vaccinations, on the reasonable basis that such vaccinations are required to protect the health and safety of employees, patients and others. On March 5, 2012, the EEOC issued an informal discussion letter on this…
Last week I wrote about the EEOC’s new Final Rule on the Reasonable Factors other than Age (RFOA) defense in disparate impact claims brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The EEOC has just published a Q&A explaining the new Rule.
In explaining the purpose of the Final Rule, the Q&A provides:
“The…
A cautionary tale about workplace relationships comes out of Pittsburgh this week
The sordid story involves the – now former – CEO of Highmark, 58-year-old Dr. Ken Melani. A well-respected figure in the community, Dr. Melani was riding high – CEO of a major, national company, and a $4.3 million dollar salary to boot. But,…
