Employment Law
For a number of years now, I’ve done pro bono work for The Law Project (TLP). Since 1985, the Law Project has provided free legal services to nonprofits & small businesses. TLP is a project of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. Since the economic collapse of 2008, many nonprofits have been in financial [...]
Thanks to reporter Christine Parizo for interviewing & quoting me for her 11/15/12 Internet Evolution (“The Macrosite for News, Analysis and Opinion about the Future of the Internet”) article Policies Protect Employers Against Privacy Intrusion Claims. The article is available in the prior link & below. Also, I’ve included all of the readers’ comments through today. This includes my [...]
On April 25, 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC—they regulate workplace issues like discrimination) issued new rules concerning businesses use of criminal background screening. The EEOC’s motivation behind these new rules is their concern that minorities are being unintentionally discriminated against in the workplace due to the higher number of minority arrests & convictions [...]
Thanks to Lisa Vaas, reporter for HP’s business blog Input Output for interviewing & quoting me in her 2/9/12 article What to Do When an Employee Cries (Legal) Wolf. The full text of the article is below. The title says it all. The article concerns what happens when employees threaten to sue in order to [...]
During my 3rd year of law school, my first article “AIDS and the ADA: Maneuvering Through a Legal Minefield,” was published in Commerce Clearing House’s the Labor Law Journal, Vol. 44, No. 7, July 1993. Due to the classic and outstanding status of my article (it’s been extremely lucrative for CCH ), you can’t easily [...]
