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Does Title VII Protect Overseas Remote Employees?

by Brian Spitz | Dec 25, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

Since COVID reshaped the workplace, remote work has exploded. Employees now clock in from bedrooms, kitchen tables, airports, and yes—other countries. With work happening everywhere, many employees assume that employment discrimination laws automatically follow them...

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Can I Be Fired For Reporting Sexual Harassment And Discrimination At Work?

by Brian Spitz | Nov 20, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

When an employee reports sexual harassment or employment discrimination at work, the law should protect them from retaliation—not reward the harasser. Unfortunately, some employers still wrongfully fire, demote, or discipline employees who speak up against harassment...

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Can My Employer Fire Me If No One Saw What Happened At Work?

by Brian Spitz | Nov 11, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

“No one really knows how the game is played, The art of the trade, How the sausage gets made… We just assume that it happens In the room where it happens.” — Hamilton: An American Musical Aaron Burr’s words in Hamilton capture a feeling many employees know all too...

Can Remote Work Be A Reasonable ADA Accommodation?

by Brian Spitz | Oct 9, 2025 | Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination

Remote work has become one of the biggest workplace disability discrimination issues of our time. What started as an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic quickly turned into a long-term question: should employees with disabilities have the right to work from...

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Yes, You Can Be Denied A Position For Tweeting A Diatribe Hating On Coworkers For Their Gender Identity And Race

by Brian Spitz | Sep 25, 2025 | Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Sexual Orientation Discrimination

Do Public Employees Have First Amendment Free Speech Rights At Work? Yes, public employees have free speech rights under the First Amendment. But those rights are not unlimited when it comes to workplace conduct. Courts apply a balancing test: does the speech address...

A closed laptop, a doctor’s note, and a pair of glasses on a desk symbolize a worker on medical leave.

Can I Be Fired for Taking Medical Leave for Anxiety?

by Brian Spitz | Sep 18, 2025 | Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Wrongful Termination

If you are an employee who took a short medical leave for anxiety or stress and returned ready to work—only to be fired on your first day back—you may be wondering if your employer just broke the law or committed disability discrimination. This is not just a...

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Can You Sue Your Employer for Being Offensive? Only If It’s Illegal Discrimination

by Brian Spitz | Sep 16, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination & Maternity Rights, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

If your boss does something inappropriate, unfair, or just downright disrespectful, it is natural to wonder whether you can sue. After all, employees should not have to put up with bad behavior at work. But here is the hard truth: just because your employer acts badly...

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Yes, You Can Be Disciplined For Publicly Airing Grievances, Refusing To Work, And Failing To Understand What FMLA Is – Even If You’re A Tenured Law Professor Claiming Race Discrimination

by Brian Spitz | Sep 2, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

Let’s say you’re a tenured law professor at a prestigious law school. You’ve got the job security with tenure that most people only dream about. But then you disrupt a student conference, yell at the dean’s assistant, publicly blast your colleagues through a faculty...

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If You Told The EEOC You’re Not Disabled, Goodbye To Your ADA Claim

by Brian Spitz | Aug 28, 2025 | Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Gender Discrimination, Gender Identity Discrimination, National Origin Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Wrongful Termination

Sometimes, your own words can come back to haunt you—especially if you say the wrong thing to the EEOC. Just ask Adam Gomez. When he filed an charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) against his employer, he checked the box that said he was not...

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Can an Employer Fire You for Being a “Direct Threat” Under the ADA?

by Brian Spitz | Aug 26, 2025 | Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Federal Law Update, Wrongful Termination

Can your employer legally remove you from your job because of disability discrimination by claiming you are a safety risk—even when your own doctors clear you? The answer, according to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Baldwin v. Union...

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