This is the first in a series of articles from Kurker Paget LLC on best employment practices for addressing workplace harassment. Last year, before Harvey Weinstein became a household name…
From Memorial Day barbeques, Fourth of July fireworks, Labor Day soirees and many pub-crawls and Friday afternoon happy hours in between, the summer season offers employees and employers the opportunity…
Even if your office does not resemble the hotbed of sexual activity depicted at the advertising agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce on TV’s Mad Men, chances are that romances are…
On November 23, 2011, Governor Patrick signed a bill that protects transgendered individuals from discrimination in employment. “An Act Relative To Gender Identity,” makes Massachusetts the 16th state to extend…
On March 21, 2011, the First Circuit provided useful guidance for employers responding to employee harassment allegations. Affirming a lower court decision, the First Circuit ruled that (1) employers have…
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