Current Employment

In case you needed proof that discrimination laws apply to everyone – and every business – the EEOC has taken up the case of a 56-year old strip club waitress who it says was fired because of her age.

It’s about time something this funny happened.

In order to prove you have a disability in federal court, you generally have to be able to show 2 things:
1. You have some type of impairment.
2. That your impairment substantially limits a ‘major life activity’.
#2 includes things like walking, eating, sleeping and breathing. And now it includes sex.

Paris Hilton. Pamela Anderson. That Girl from “the Hills”.
Wal Mart should’ve known better.
Rule #1 of being a media-obcessed diva is you have to be wary when you burn your entourage.
The WSJ ran a front pager (via the ABA Journal), reporting that film studio Flagler Productions is charging admission to whomever feels like viewing its stock [...]

A woman fired from designer sweats giant American Apparel has sued her former boss for sexual harassment. Mary Nelson claims that the head of the clothing company, known for making all of its clothes in downtown LA and paying its employees a living wage, made the workplace uncomfortable with his sexual conversation and attitude. Nothing [...]

Daniel Schwartz at Connecticut Employment Law Blog (which graphically puts our fledgling rag to shame) has brought a very important, under reported holiday issue to everyone’s attention – sexual harassment of mall Santa Clauses.Yep. Apparently, creepy women older girls have been waiting in line to talk to Santa, hoping to raise their rank on the [...]