Twenty-six years ago, Joseph Garrison, the senior partner at the law firm where I worked in New Haven, CT, asked me to speak to a potential client who claimed he was being discriminated against in his job because of his multiple sclerosis. As a new associate and a relatively recent law school graduate, I had …
BALTIMORE—Boosters of the Maryland horse racing industry cheered earlier this year when Baltimore’s annual Preakness Stakes attracted a record-breaking crowd of more than 130,000. The huge crowd thrilled to the victory of the bay colt American Pharaoh, who would go on to win the Triple Crown, and a place in thoroughbred racing history. At the betting …
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In the pre-dawn chill of Black Friday 2012, a half-dozen yellow school buses pulled up at a South Side Chicago Walmart store, disgorging a small group of striking Walmart workers and nearly 250 supporters. Along with strikers and allies in 100 other cities around the country, they had come out that day under the aegis …
Lacie Little won back last week everything Indiana University Health Inc. took from her – except her job. Her beloved nursing job. She got back wages and a formal public statement by the hospital corporation saying that it removed the firing from her work record. So she’s un-fired. But she’s not rehired. The hospital behemoth …
After Jake Tapper, host of CNN’s State of the Union, asked Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina about Netflix’s announcement that it will offer a year of unlimited paid family leave, the former Hewlett Packard CEO said she opposes any requirement that employers offer their workers paid leave. “I don’t think it’s the role of …
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Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
