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A story that touches on employment law has grabbed the attention of the national media. Although it has nothing to do with Detroit or Michigan, we thought it might still be worth exploring on our employment law blog since there is a good chance many of our readers...
Detroit readers who liked watching Ann Curry co-host "Today" on NBC are going to have to make an adjustment; on Thursday, Curry announced that it was her last show.The move was not unexpected. For weeks, celebrity websites and supermarket checkout aisle tabloids had...
Detroit readers might have seen a photograph circulated on media outlets a few weeks ago of two military mothers breastfeeding their children while uniform. The photographer who took the image took the picture as part of a campaign to support working mothers and women...
The Detroit Medical Center recently announced that it would no longer hire job applicants who smoked and will test employees from now on to make sure that they are not smoking. That does not mean that employees are only not allowed to smoke on the job; it means they...
In 2008, Best Buy, where Detroit readers have probably purchased an electronics item at some point, acquired the digital music sharing service. But then, things changed. iTunes came along and Napster was no longer relevant. Ultimately, Best Buy wound up selling...
Detroit's Deputy Fire Commissioner Fred Wheeler lost his temper when confronted by a television news reporter earlier this week. No one is disputing that. But did he deserve to be nudged out of his job over the incident?Detroit Mayor Dave Bing released a statement...
A Detroit news station has made several salacious allegations in a recent report about whether Detroit firefighters drink on the job.In many fields of work, abstaining from alcohol while on the clock is expressly demanded in employment agreements or employment...
A majority of Detroit residents would agree that diversity in the workplace brings many benefits. However, sometimes a push for diversity among employees can result in unfair workplace discrimination.Metro Detroit's Metroparks police department currently stands...
An AT&T worker who converted to Islam in 2005 was shocked at the change in the way her coworkers treated her. They had never bothered her before, but now they called her hijab "that thing on her head" and referred to her as a "towelhead" and a "terrorist." What...
Caterpillar, the name see on the heavy equipment popping up around road construction projects all over Detroit this time of year, is facing an issue with its employees at a Midwest production facility. Workers at the Caterpillar plant in Joliet, Illinois, are locked...