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Watch out for overly-accommodating and patronizing management behavior
In the January issue of Workforce Management magazine (subscribe here), Sondra Thiederman writes “Guerrillas in Your Midst” (based on her book “Making Diversity Work”):
Gretchen, marketing director at a large U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, listened as the new Cambodian supervisor explained his design idea. She then nodded respectfully and said she’d think about it. But she returned [...]
Kind mention of this blawg
Michael Fox of Jottings by an Employer’s Lawyer made this complimentary (and complementary) reference to my MLK day thoughts.
If you like my blawg, be sure to blogroll his as well.
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Levi’s claims vindication in dismissal of lawsuit after holding out while others settled for millions
Jenny Strasburg wrote for San Francisco Chronicle 1/8/04 (yep, I’m running a back-blog again!): “Levi’s lawsuit dropped; Saipan workers’ case dismissed in victory for clothier”:
Levi Strauss & Co. has won the dismissal of a lawsuit over alleged sweatshop abuses on the U.S. commonwealth island of Saipan, effectively closing a 5-year-old case that involved more [...]
No compensatory & punitive damages or jury trial for retaliation under ADA, 7th Circuit holds
In Kramer v. Banc of America Securities, LLC (7th Cir. 1/20/04), the Seventh Circuit held compensatory and punitive damages are not available remedies for retaliation claims under the ADA (though they are for direct ADA discrimination claims) because the Civil Rights Act of 1991 omits reference to the retaliation section of the ADA in granting [...]
Crabbed ADA interpretation of the year (month?)
Shannon P. Duffy writes in The Legal Intelligencer: “Early-Stage MS Ruled Not a Disability”
A worker who was fired soon after telling his bosses that he suffers from multiple sclerosis cannot rely on the close timing of his announcement and the firing to prove that it was the result of discrimination if the employer had [...]
