Siding With Transgender Employee, Iowa Supreme Court Sidesteps Bostock
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace, Sex Discrimination
Last week, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a 2019 jury verdict that found the state discriminated against a transgender state prison employee by denying him the use of men’s restrooms and locker rooms at his workplace. The ruling means former Iowa state prison nurse Jesse Vroegh, a former Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC) nurse, won…
Read More Managing Mental Health At Work
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Mental Health
Mental health is having a moment. Quite a few moments, in fact. While a colleague’s depression or a supervisor’s PTSD or the rainmaker’s substance abuse issue or the CEO’s anxiety that prevents her from sleeping may have been swept under the proverbial rug in the past, people are speaking up and out increasingly at work…
Read More One Employer Sends A Clear Message: We Do Not and Will Not Tolerate Sexual Harassment
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Safety
Anti-harassment, -discrimination, and -retaliation policies and procedures are not just for show. These policies and procedures must be clear, strong, and, most important, followed. And the tone is set at the top. Leaders that ignore their companies’ own anti-harassment procedures send the message that the company culture tolerates sexual harassment (and other forms). CEO Karen…
Read More Employer Fails To See ADA Implications Of Its Actions
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Disabilities and Accommodations (ADA)
Most employers know that discriminating against an employee based on a disability is wrong. Time and again, however, employers fail to consider the “perceived as disabled” prong of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). One management services organization that supports eye care providers learned this costly lesson when it settled a lawsuit filed by the…
Read More Goal: U.S. Women’s Soccer Settles Equal Pay Lawsuit
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Equal Pay, Sex Discrimination
This week, equal pay for women in the workplace spotlights U.S. Women’s Soccer. The U.S. Women’s National Soccer team has been advocating for equal pay for six, yes six, years. They have been relentless in their pursuit of equal pay, and the payoff has finally arrived. The U.S. Soccer Federation agreed to settle with the…
Read More A Tale of Two (NFL) Brians: Two Employment Lawyers Weigh In On Race Discrimination Lawsuit
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Race-based Discrimination, Harassment
Beginning a lawsuit with a smoking gun text, dropping the f-bomb, and a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gains attention, but does the 58-page Complaint alleging systemic race discrimination filed by the Miami Dolphins former head coach, Brian Flores, against the National Football League (NFL), the Dolphins, New York Giants, and Denver Broncos…
Read More Antisemitism In the Workplace
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Bystander Intervention, Race, Religion, and National Origin
Antisemitic sentiment continues to rise. Maybe you saw the swastikas hand-drawn on the columns at Union Station in Washington, DC this morning? No? Here’s a local news report about the drawings, which were found the day after National Holocaust Remembrance Day. Last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC), the federal agency that enforces federal…
Read More New Year, New COVID-19 Guidance For Employers…Again
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | CDC Guidance, Workplace Safety
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their COVID-19 quarantine/isolation guidance for the second time in ten days. Don’t shoot the messenger! I told you here that on December 27, 2021, the CDC shortened the recommended time for isolation from 10 days for asymptomatic people—regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not—with COVID-19…
Read More Making Employees’ Mental Health Disclosures Matter
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Mental Health
The ubiquity of mental health issues during the pandemic has been well documented. I always start a post about mental health with statistics. I think it’s important to see how pervasive mental health issues are—they affect people regardless of their economic status, politics, sex, race, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity. They…
Read More As A Special Holiday Gift for Employers, the CDC Updated Its Guidance
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | CDC Guidance, Covid-19 Vaccines, Uncategorized, Workplace Safety
Just when businesses thought it was safe to relax, maybe unplug for a while, BAM! Yesterday, the CDC announced that it is shortening the recommended time for isolation from 10 days for asymptomatic people—regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not—with COVID-19 to 5 days, followed by 5 days of wearing a mask when around…
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.
