The San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting that Mayor Bob Filner may resign on Friday as part of a proposed settlement of a sexual-harassment lawsuit against him and the city. As you may recall, more and more women have come forward to…
Lesson: when you've taken the legal position that you cannot stand, sit, kneel, squat, climb, bend, reach, or grasp, you should not then let yourself be recorded appearing as a contestant on a nationally syndicated game show that will in…
The law of the workplace is complex, said Bob Filner's attorney, and my client never received the proper training in how to navigate its treacherous waters. And that is why the City of San Diego, which employed him, should pay…
So says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in this press release, describing a lawsuit it filed today (May 9) against a Miami company. According to the EEOC, the company required employees to take Scientology courses and engage in a variety…
You know, it kind of does, when you think about it. State Rep. Ernest Hewett of Connecticut (D-New London) has been under fire for a while now because of a comment he made during a hearing last month. The hearing…
But the surveillance video provided additional evidence, as the San Jose Mercury News reported on Friday: [A California woman] was caught on videotape in August 2009 throwing her crutches into a car and running in high heels to meet her boyfriend…
I don't know much about employment law, but I do know this: If you're the captain of a cruise ship and this happens: … you probably can't complain too much about getting fired. Which has not stopped the ex-captain of…
Oh, Wells Fargo. And here I had decided that you were the least evil member of the banking family. You might still be—which is not saying much—but this is pretty bad. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage fired Richard Eggers in July,…
I believe it was Confucius who said: He who would moon a superior should first consider whether his profit-sharing plan has vested, but whoever said it, those were words of wisdom. The plaintiff in Selch v. Columbia Management ignored them in…
Let us apply the "IRAC" approach to this conundrum reported recently by the Ohio Employer's Law Blog: Issue: Does a county have a duty to provide a legal defense for a guard who has been sued for asking an inmate to…