I Love Lists! Dissecting One Sexual Harassment Prevention List
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck I love lists. I love “plans.” After all, as a lawyer, my day is usually suffused with them. I’ve even given them to you, employers! Right here in this blog! What To Do If Someone Complains About Sexual Harassment For example, here I gave you a list of steps to take…
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 “'The Weinstein Effect'” on Holiday Parties—No Booze? What A Snooze!
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Human Resources Departments are wringing their proverbial hands this month about the company holiday party. Open bar? No bar? Drinks tickets? Like, 2 per person. No party at all? What to do, what to do. In this article, WaPo features reporter Lavanya Ramanathan writes about these considerations that companies, particularly their…
Read More Sexual Harassment Prevention 101
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
It has been quite a year in employment law! The exposure and explosive aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal opened the floodgates for sexual harassment claims, which rippled across industries and workplaces with employers reevaluating their policies and committing to end such treatment. However, we see that confusion remains about what actually constitutes…
Read More Setting the Record Straight on (Sexual) Harassment
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck People are confused! From Uber to a well-known jewelry chain, ad agencies and TV hosts, from Harvey Weinstein to restaurant employees, I hear more and more that there is confusion about what actually constitutes sexual harassment or racial harassment or age-based harassment, etc.—let’s call it unlawful harassment. Recently, the spouse of…
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 Oh Harvey! We’ll Need a Memo to the File
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By Amy Epstein Gluck Until last Thursday, the name Harvey Weinstein evoked popular culture of the 1990’s and 2000’s. Weinstein is the producer who gave us beautiful, lyrical films like The English Patient and Chocolat. He made groundbreaking movies like Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction (personally, my favorite soundtrack), and Carol, and produced the popular…
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 Mea Culpa! Can an act of personal absolution change sexual harassment in Silicon Valley?
By Richard Cohen |
“’While I’d like to believe that I’m not a bad or evil person, regardless it’s clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.’ So sorry! This was the admission of the founder of the start-up incubator 500 Startups who resigned after…
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.
