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“I’m not the one who’s sick.” Between 35-plus years in HR, including thousands of leave and accommodation matters, and now my own law practice, that line comes up more than almost any other. An employee’s parent, spouse, or child gets…
You asked for a religious accommodation, and HR told you that you were welcome to apply for a transfer. That felt like an answer. It was not one. This comes up often enough that a federal appeals court just ruled…
A lot of employers assume that once a hiring platform runs the scoring, the company can step back and trust the number. That assumption holds up right until a rejected applicant asks who reviewed the score and why it came…
The interview felt great. You never heard back. Somewhere between the interview and the silence, a hiring manager pulled up a public profile. A photo, a post, a comment thread from years ago. Nobody told the candidate that happened, and…
“You don’t have to lift anything heavy. We’ll take care of that for you.” That’s what one employee heard the week after a minor surgery, before anyone asked what the surgery was even for. No diagnosis. No accommodation request. No…
You wore something to work that meant something to you, and by the end of the shift you were told to take it off or go home. No warning first. This keeps showing up in different forms. A button, a…
“I stopped mentioning it,” she said. “I figured it was just something I had to push through on my own.” The exhaustion, the disrupted sleep, the trouble concentrating by afternoon: she assumed none of it was her employer’s problem to…
Some employers treat an AI-assisted screening tool as a neutral filter, a way to remove human bias from hiring decisions rather than add to it. California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA, Gov. Code § 12940(a)) doesn’t distinguish between a…
You were laid off. Meta called it a reduction in force, about 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of the company, as part of a push to become an “AI-first” company. Twenty-six of those employees didn’t accept the official explanation. They filed…
A maintenance supervisor for an airline asked her whether she liked being restrained in the bedroom. She reported it. The company’s own investigation didn’t fix it. A jury believed her anyway. Two million dollars in punitive damages. Emotional distress damages…
