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Posted on Aug 7, 2019 on Firm Happenings, Firm News and Victories by Brody and Associates
Brody and Associates, LLC is pleased to announce Kate Bogard has been named to a second term as a co-chair of the Women in the Law Committee of the Fairfield County Bar Association. In her …
Posted on Jul 31, 2019 on Family and Medical Leave Act, Legislative Updates by Robert G. Brody and Lindsay M. Rinehart
Back in May, the Governor of Maine Governor signed “An Act Authorizing Earned Employee Leave” which requires employers to provide paid leave to employees. The new law will take effect on January 1, 2021. This …
Posted on Jul 31, 2019 on Discrimination and Harassment by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
In Australia, an engineer sued his former employer for bullying. He alleged his former supervisor would come into his office and expel gas. (And no, we are not making this up!) The employee referred to …
Posted on Jul 31, 2019 on Immigration Related Issues by Bruce E. Buchanan
Dunkin’ (which recently changed its name from Dunkin’ Donuts) has sued several franchisees with nine locations in Delaware and Pennsylvania in federal court, seeking to stop them from running their Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants after their …
Posted on Jul 16, 2019 on Disability, Discrimination and Harassment, Retaliation, Sex by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
Pregnancy discrimination often makes headlines as Nike found out on Mother’s Day. Alysia Montańo, an Olympian and professional runner, authored an opinion piece in the New York Times slamming Nike for pregnancy discrimination. Specifically, she …
Posted on Jul 16, 2019 on Discrimination and Harassment, Retaliation, Sex, Sexual Orientation by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) continues to aggressively file sexual harassment cases across the country. Recently, the EEOC filed a federal lawsuit against a Chili’s restaurant in Colorado on behalf of several female servers …
Posted on Jul 10, 2019 on Family and Medical Leave Act, Legal Updates, News by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
The impact of leave on an annual bonus calculation often perplexes employers (and rightfully so). When calculating the amount of a bonus, can the employer take into account an employee’s absence for part of the …
Posted on Jul 10, 2019 on Discrimination and Harassment, News, Race / Color, Religious, Retaliation, Sex, Sexual Orientation by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), the federal watchdog for employment discrimination claims, released their long awaited charge statistics for fiscal year 2018. As we have written the last three years, retaliation claims continue to …
Posted on Jul 1, 2019 on Immigration Related Issues by Bruce E. Buchanan
While so much of the immigration news is focusing on whether President Trump will order Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to roundup individuals and families to enforce outstanding deportation orders, ICE, through its Homeland Security …
Posted on Jul 1, 2019 on Disability, Discrimination and Harassment, Retaliation, Sex by Robert G. Brody and Katherine M. Bogard
At the end of April, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights (CHRO), the Connecticut state agency tasked with enforcing the anti-employment discrimination laws, released new guidance for employers on pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions at …