Two weeks ago, we wrote about how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Detroit office was looking for cases that it believed would help it shore up protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees in Michigan.We recently noticed that protection...
So far this winter, people all across Detroit have come down with the flu. The 2012-2013 season is turning out to be one of the worst flu seasons in recent memory.Believe it or not, an employment law aspect has emerged in news coverage of the flu epidemic. Ohio-based...
Here in Michigan, sexual orientation is not a protected class. That means that employers are not explicitly prohibited from discriminating against gay and bisexual men and women in the same way that they are prohibited from discriminating against people on the basis...
To perform the study, researchers interviewed 115 high school teenagers. They found that 37 percent of boys and 54 percent of girls had been sexually harassed at work at least once over the past two years.The study defined "sexual harassment" as unwelcome sexual...
Although we practice in Michigan, we try to stay abreast of what is happening in our region because we know it is important to stay well-informed. The other day, an employment law-related story out of Ohio caught our eye.The case we are mentioning refers to a police...
