HR Compliance for Employers: Workplace Best Practices, Legal Requirements & Litigation Lessons
Fired on Her First Day Back From FMLA Leave: Retaliation and Whistleblower Lessons for Employers After a Change in Leadership
She returned from 12 weeks of FMLA leave, emailed HR that she’d arrived, and was fired in her first meeting. This lawsuit shows how unresolved complaints, whistleblower reports, remote HR, and a change in leadership can turn into FMLA, whistleblower, and retaliation claims, and the seven HR failures employers can fix before it happens to them.
EEOC Secures $2.6 Million Settlement in Sex Discrimination Hiring Case
An employer that operated as a male‑only workplace for years is facing major consequences after the EEOC found a long‑standing pattern of sex‑based hiring discrimination. The agency alleges the company refused to hire women for laborer jobs, claiming female workers would be sexually harassed and that harassment would reduce productivity. The EEOC secured a $2.6 million settlement — along with separate enforcement actions against staffing agencies that followed the employer’s discriminatory hiring instructions.
A Pregnant Employee Repeatedly Asked her Employer for Help — But the System Failed Her
A young supervisor missed a pregnant employee’s repeated requests for help — and the chain restaurant’s response turned a simple fix into a lawsuit.