Up In The Air—To Address Sexual Harassment, Follow Your Procedures
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, General Employer Guidance, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Safety
By: Amy Epstein Gluck So, I’m on a Southwest flight to New Orleans (woohoo!!) to hang out with my FisherBroyles partners for a few days. I am psyched! Being me, on the flight, I started chatting with the flight attendant about her job and ask her about her experiences with sexual harassment in her workplace, which,…
Read More HR: Do Not Delay When Designating Leave Under the FMLA
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Accommodation of Disabilities, Disabilities and Accommodations (ADA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
By Amy Epstein Gluck As readers of this blog know, I don’t wade into FMLA territory. I leave that for my employment law partner Eric Meyer or to FMLA guru, Jeff Nowak at FMLA Insights. However, a wonderful bout of insomnia early this morning has me on the computer and my third cup of coffee by 7…
Read More Job Applicants and the ADA
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Accommodation of Disabilities, Disabilities and Accommodations (ADA)
By Amy Epstein Gluck Does the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) apply to job applicants as well as employees? Yes, indeed! One employer, an international customer service support provider for electronic devices in Nashville, Tennessee, just learned this lesson as it paid up $50K in a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for rejecting a…
Read More Accusations of "Institutionalized Gender Discrimination" Dominate Women's Professional Soccer
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Sex Discrimination
By Amy Epstein Gluck Last week, the entire U.S. women’s soccer team filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against the United States Soccer Federation alleging unequal pay, practice time, medical treatment, and other benefits and accusing it of “institutionalized gender discrimination.” The date of the lawsuit: International Women’s Day. Sound familiar? It…
Read More Opposition and Retaliation—Key Components of Laws Like Title VII and the ADA
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Accommodation of Disabilities, Disabilities and Accommodations (ADA), Retaliation
By Amy Epstein Gluck Yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces the federal anti-discrimination and anti-harassment laws, sued a Maryland-based employer for terminating a director because she spoke out against what she believed was disability discrimination perpetuated against her subordinate employee. The director complained to the HR Department of her…
Read More The 4th Circuit Says: Rumor Has It
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment
By Amy Epstein Gluck I am going to lay out the lede up front: last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim based on sex-based rumors. It considered the claims to be rooted in unlawful sex stereotypes about women. What Was This…
Read More Diversity and Inclusion—BigLaw Partners "Classes"
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace, Diversity and Inclusion
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Much has been said and written lately about BigLaw’s diversity, or lack thereof. According to our friends at Above the Law, the number of women making partner at AmLaw 200 firm was at a 5-year low last year. One BigLaw firm, in particular, was excoriated in the media when they posted a photo…
Read More Who's The "Boss"?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace
By Amy Epstein Gluck No, not Tony Danza or even Judith Light (yes, I was a teenager in the 80s), but New York. The New York Senate passed a trio of bills yesterday to protect women’s health rights, in general, and female employees’ rights in particular. The Boss Bill—What It Says The “Boss Bill” prohibits…
Read More You Should Dress More Gender Appropriate
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, LGBTQ+, Sex Discrimination
By: Amy Epstein Gluck The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is taking on Chili’s. No, it’s not because a server added to salt to a margarita when a customer specifically asked for no salt (this happens to me a lot), and it’s not because there were not enough jalapeños on the nachos. Rather, the ACLU…
Read More The City That Never Sleeps—The "Right" To Unplug
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Wage & Hour
By: Amy Epstein Gluck As we’ve seen, especially in the past year or so, New York City and State have some of the most employee-friendly laws in the country. Well, a new one may be on the horizon for NYC workers that will be particularly life-changing for the City’s workaholics and the employers that help create them:…
Read More RICHARD COHEN
Richard Cohen has litigated and arbitrated complex corporate, commercial and employment disputes for more than 35 years, and is a trusted advisor to business owners and in-house counsel both in the United States and internationally. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies, domestic and foreign commercial and investment banks, Pacific-rim corporations and real estate development companies, as well as start-up businesses throughout the United States.
AMY EPSTEIN GLUCK
Amy Epstein Gluck has represented individuals and corporate clients in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and various federal district courts for more than twenty years. Ms. Epstein Gluck’s current practice areas include employment law—advising on and drafting employment agreements; handling employment negotiations, severance agreements, noncompete and nondisclosure agreements, “wrongful terminations” and other EEO matters; representation at the EEOC level; advising employers about discrimination laws and how to remain in compliance, and employment negotiations.
