For Women, The Pay Gap Can Be Scary
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
While I’d like to figure out a clever costume to be a “Pay Gap” for Halloween, instead, I’ll provide some sobering statistics: According to recent research by the Pew Research Center, a pay gap between what men and women earn persist, unchanged, for the past twenty years. Today, in 2022, women make 82 cents for…
Read More Equal Employment Opportunity Too Heavy A Lift For One Employer
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), enforcer of federal anti-discrimination laws, settled a case with one employer that allegedly failed to hire a female applicant, who possessed equal or more experience than male applicants, because the position required the applicant to lift and move heavy objects. According to the lawsuit, the store manager expressed skepticism…
Read More Congress Bumped Up Workplace Protections for Pregnant and Nursing Employees
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
As 2022 wound down, federal legislators passed two new workplace laws: the Pregnancy Fairness Workers Act (PFWA) and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) Act. Employers may wonder about the necessity of the PFWA when employers (with more than 15 employees) must follow the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). Similarly, what additional protections does the PUMP Act…
Read More No Such Thing As A Free Lunch When It Comes to Sexual Harassment
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
Ignoring a female employee’s complaints that a male co-worker referred to her as “lunch” and simulated sex acts can draw scrutiny from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC reported that Lowe’s would pay $700,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit that the EEOC filed in the U.S. District Court of Arizona just a few…
Read More Employers, the EEOC Is Watching How You Treat Pregnant Employees And Applicants
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
This is not news. Or at least it should not be. And yet. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC“), the federal agency that enforces the federal anti-discrimination laws, announced that it settled a claim with a Louisiana restaurant that admitted it violated federal law when a restaurant manager fired and then later refused to…
Read More Bar None: Retaliation Violates Anti-Discrimination Laws
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
“Was that on purpose?” a lawyer at the firm where I worked asked me more than twenty years ago when I disclosed that I was pregnant with my first child. Clearly, this resonated with me, and I tell the story often. One female employee now has a similar story. This week, one Oregon bartender filed…
Read More Siding With Transgender Employee, Iowa Supreme Court Sidesteps Bostock
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
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 Goal: U.S. Women’s Soccer Settles Equal Pay Lawsuit
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
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 Working Women Still Suffering “Death by 1,000 Cuts”
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
While overt sexual harassment persists, less discussed—but no less significant—is the problem that women trying to ascend the corporate, partnership, and/or management level often suffer “death by a thousand cuts,” which delays their advancement and contributes to their decisions to leave the workplace. That’s the theme of this past Sunday’s New York Times article “How…
Read More Administrators, Not Ministers—Bostock Bars Discriminatory Termination of Drama Teacher at Catholic High School
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
Last week, a federal judge ruled in favor of a gay former drama teacher who lost his job at Charlotte Catholic High School after he announced on social that he and his male partner were getting married. A federal court in North Carolina deemed the organization’s actions discriminatory on the basis of sex. Even though…
Read More 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.
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.
