Massachusetts Employment Law Blog

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is preparing new guidance on pregnancy discrimination. Lawsuits around workplace bias against pregnant workers have risen fast. The agency now aims to clarify employer duties under major labor laws. This pregnancy discrimination guideline update will address gaps in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The…

Online current affairs magazine Slate, recently turned to Gordon Law Group attorney Philip Gordon to provide legal guidance in its advice column, Dear Prudence. In the column, a reader was concerned that if she told her boss she was enrolling in graduate school, he would fire her and leave her without a job in the…

Employees in Colorado will have increased rights under the state’s Wage Protection Act of 2014. The law has been expanded to give the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) more power to pursue wage claims on behalf of the employee. The new law also includes the expansion of the state’s wage payment law to…

Per Diem payments – payments intended to cover the daily expenses of an employee – count towards an employee’s regular rate of pay for calculating overtime according to the First Circuit. In Newman v. Advanced Technology Innovation Corp., the First Circuit found that if an employer calculates per diem on an hourly basis, then it…

An employee fired just days after coming back from medical leave, has won over $100,000 as well as attorneys’ fees and costs. By firing the employee, the employer violated the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that says that you cannot fire an employee on FMLA leave without a legitimate reason. The timing of…

Philip Gordon recently appeared on MSNBC’s show Ronan Farrow Daily, alongside Dr. Kimberly Theidon of Harvard University, to discuss Title IX, sexual assault on campuses, and Theidon’s denial of tenure for supporting sexual assault victims. Click here to watch the video.

The White House showed clear intent that they are committed to stem sexual assaults on campuses across the country by releasing a set of guidelines and proposals today.  A White House task force admonished the role of colleges and universities administration in tackling sexual assault, with a response that shows the White House believes that…

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hilip Gordon, together with Elizabeth Rodgers of Rodgers, Powers & Schwartz LLP, is leading a Title IX lawsuit against Harvard University. They represent Dr. Kimberly Theidon, an accomplished anthropology professor at Harvard University who has seemingly been denied tenure for supporting students who were victims of sexual assault and critical of Harvard’s approach to their…

Last Wednesday April 9th, saw the House Republicans vote against the Paycheck Fairness Act—a bill proposed to achieve equal pay. This was the third time the bill had been blocked. The bill specifically intends to shorten the number of reasons a company can cite for paying women less than men. As we wrote about in…