Strategic Employment Law Representation
In a landmark decision with origins in Michigan, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that a federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ employees. In essence, employers cannot fire or discriminate against someone for being transgender or gay.The high-profile case...
Fundamental fairness and evenhanded policies toward all employees have always been aspirational goals of companies in Michigan and across the countryCandidly, some enterprises do better than others. Select companies garner consistently high marks from their workers...
Many readers of this blog post might reasonably have a quick and strongly adverse reaction when they contemplate its above-posed headline query.Wrong is wrong, and such an employer demand of a would-be hire going through the application process seems, well, deeply off...
Michigan legislators passed the seminal Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act more than 40 years ago as a supplementary and clarifying measure to federal safeguards against discrimination.The Michigan law – which has been amended many times since its 1977 enactment...
Descriptions of work environments that select employees in companies spanning Michigan and the United States find unpleasant -- even intolerable – run a broad gamut.To wit: Maybe your immediate supervisor is a constant fault finder. Perhaps a manager’s...
What if you a Michigan employee clearly wronged – that is, unlawfully treated – by workplace management? Examples of that are many and diverse, and often encompassed within discriminatory treatment practiced in a company.On-the-job employment...
A multitude of federal and state statutory and case law provisions safeguard Michigan workers and their peers nationally from the scourge of workplace discrimination.That wasn’t always the case. America’s broad and diverse workforce has progressively...
Michigan is famous as the working heartland of America, where some of the best industrial and business innovations began. Although some of these aspects of the economy have dulled since the 21st century, the Wolverine State still generates a lot of work and innovates...
The attitude toward sexual orientation and gender identity has changed. Members of the LGBTQ community - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer - have challenged the discrimination they face. But federal laws still do not protect against LGBTQ discrimination in...
There was a turning point in American culture when the Bill of Rights outlined some basic human rights that cannot be ignored or taken away. Although labor is not one of them, a new era has come that recognizes people's equal access to work based on their...