Greensboro Legal Blog

If you’re planning to hire, here are four tips to implement in your hiring process to attract qualified candidates.

The “Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act” (the FAMILY Act), introduced in the Senate on December 12, 2013, would provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave each year to qualifying workers for the birth or adoption of a new child, the serious illness of an immediate family member, or a worker’s own medical condition.

Is sniffing someone in the workplace considered sexual harassment under the law? The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it very well could be, depending on the material facts.

Yelp’s website success does rely on an active base of reviewers, however opponents to the lawsuit have likened it to Facebook users demanding payment for status posts.

ENDA is a bill that would make discrimination based on “an individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity” illegal in such areas as hiring, firing and compensation in both the private and public workplaces.

The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frizzell, granting summary judgment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals on October 1, 2013 which disagreed that Abercrombie & Fitch violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by failing to provide a reasonable religious accommodation.