New York Employers—Get Ready, Get Set, Go!
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Last month, both New York State (NYS) and New York City (NYC) passed eleven (11!!) bills requiring private employers with more than fifteen (15) employees to provide greater protections against sexual harassment in their workplaces. Back in February, my partner Rich Cohen wrote that New York City may soon require private employers…
Read More Sexual Orientation—Might the 8th Circuit Join the Second, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits’ Party?
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Recently, sixteen attorneys general across the country filed an amicus brief (this is Latin for “friend of the court” and brings to a court’s attention other relevant, helpful matters that it may not have already considered) on behalf of their respective states seeking to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation under federal law.…
Read More How To Slay The Dragon…I Mean, Eradicate Sexual Harassment
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck As you can read most recently here and here, Rich Cohen and I advise and encourage employers to invest in interactive sexual harassment training tailored to the workplace. We think it is a crucial tool in slaying the vile beast that is sexual harassment in the workplace. However, our friends at…
Read More "Inclusion Rider"-What's That?
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck New buzz phrase, y’all. It’s been around awhile, but just received a LOT of attention due to the 2018 Oscar awards and Frances McDormand’s Best Actress speech, which, if you’re so inclined, you can read about here. So, what exactly is it? An “inclusion rider” floats the idea that A-list actors…
Read More Time's Up!
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Some mighty powerful women have been getting together to create a plan to combat sexual harassment, gender inequality, retaliation, and to try to change “the way things are.” As my mom used to say, these women have “had it up to here!” (An aside: where’s “here”? I never got that, and…
Read More Employer Update: Minimizing Gender Bias and Eradicating Sexual Harassment
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By Amy Epstein Gluck So how do we even attempt to clear up this mess in the workplace, the “bro clubs,” and other “hotbeds” of sexual harassment saturating the media recently, and which we talked about here? Behaviors need to change—ok, there’s no doubt about that. You can consider some recent lists—treat the women you…
Read More The Hostess With The Mostest? Not Exactly.
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Last Friday, on September 29, the EEOC filed a lawsuit against a restaurant in Virginia alleging that the restaurant violated federal law by subjecting an 18-year-old female employee to a sexually hostile work environment and retaliating against her by reducing her hours when she complained about the alleged harassment. The complaint…
Read More Is It Ok For A Supervisor to Ask A Subordinate To Cook For Him In the Nude? Not So Much.
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Is it Ok for a company’s Human Resources (“HR”) department to respond to said subordinate employee’s complaint of being asked to cook in the nude for her supervisor “oh that’s just the way he is”? I think not. A Charlotte newspaper recently reported about a lawsuit filed against a company where…
Read More Good for Google—Taking Corrective Action Against Sex Stereotyping
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By Amy Epstein Gluck Reminiscent of Jerry Maguire’s mission statement (“The Things We Think and Do Not Say”) and subsequent firing, it has been widely reported today that Google fired an employee for his “manifesto,” which purported to explain why women are not suited to working in the tech industry and/or why men are more…
Read More Kudos To G.E. As It Strives to “Balance the Equation” With Women
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Though I felt I was scaling mountains in Honors Bio during my sophomore year in high school and during six months of balancing equations, General Electric’s plan to “balance the equation” makes perfect sense to me…and likely to others. This year, General Electric, the science, technology, and engineering industry giant, revealed…
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.
