Recent Settlement Suggests Shift Toward More Parental Leave Parity
A recent legal settlement over a parental leave dispute may encourage employers to move toward more gender-neutral parental leave policies.
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Layoff Following Leave Was Not ‘Elaborate Sham,’ Court Says
An employee who was reassigned to a new position after taking medical leave and then quickly laid off was not the victim of an “elaborate sham,” as he alleged, a federal appeals court has determined.
Promotions, New Supervisors Not ADA Accommodations, Courts Say
While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires a wide array of accommodations for workers with disabilities, there are a few things that generally are not required because they fail the law’s “reasonableness” test. Among those are a promotion and a new supervisor.
Hiring: Should We Accept Video Resumes?
In our hiring training, we’ve told our managers to avoid information that is not job related, especially when it has to do with protected characteristics. But we still get a lot of details we shouldn’t know about in other ways. Some applicants send pictures with their e-mailed resumes and others send video resumes. What do […]