How Can Smaller Businesses Battling Cash Flow Concerns Comply with FFCRA?
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck We are all engaged in the new practice of social distancing in order to try to stem the tide of COVID-19 incidence. It’s not easy, that’s for sure. (Here in my house, I am worried that my youngest child, a 15 year-old boy, may be killed outright by his older sisters—they…
Read More Employers, COVID-19 Does Not Nullify Privacy Or Other Data Security Laws
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
I send you into this weekend with a guest post by Marty Robins, one of our amazing Privacy Group partners in Illinois. An expert in all things data privacy, Marty and I talked this week (and last) about the effect of the Coronavirus on data privacy issues. With the current focus on preventing the spread…
Read More The Down and Dirty Breakdown of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act—CLARIFICATION
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
Late last night, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act was signed into law. Honestly, I could write a five-page description of everything that this law provides and does not provide, but that’s not how I roll, and I think you want to read about this in plain English. So, here we go, in bullet point…
Read More Do We Have To Pay Our Employees If We Send Them Home Because Of The Coronavirus?
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Yesterday, two very different employers asked me how the heck they pay employees who are not working. What do they do? Their businesses may suffer considerable losses, or they fear losing their workforce if they do not pay their employees. What are employers’ obligations? Exempt or Nonexempt, That Is The First…
Read More Employee-Friendly California Provides Specific Guidance to Employers About Leave and Pay Related To COVID-19
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck On March 5, 2020, in a FisherBroyles client alert, I provided some answers to several pressing general questions that employers might have about managing their workforce during this turbulent time. If you missed the alert, you can read it here. If we know one thing about this Coronavirus or COVID-19, we…
Read More A Harasser for All Seasons
By Richard Cohen |
Now here’s a manager who seemingly has no issue with harassing women, African Americans and foreign-born employees. And now the company, an Ithaca, N.Y. manufacturer, is settling the EEOC’s case which alleged sex, race and national origin discrimination, for $93,000. Nothing seemed beneath him: as the EEOC claimed, a noose for the only black employee (a…
Read More Carving Out An Enforceable Noncompete In The 4th Circuit
By Amy Epstein Gluck |
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Employers having trouble enforcing their noncompetes may have a better chance in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit—at least in Maryland—by adopting a more novel approach: condition the noncompete on the receipt of incentive payments pursuant to a clear incentive plan with defined goals, instead of relying…
Read More Is one “N-word" severe enough to constitute a hostile work environment? A reader adds A surprising twist
By Richard Cohen |
Almost four years ago, I posted a piece asking how many how many times an African-American employee must endure the sight of a hanging noose, or suffer other crude and offensive racial or other epithets, for the situation to become a hostile work environment and racial harassment. The question was: is one “N-word” sufficiently severe?…
Read More Is Switzerland Ready For This?
By Richard Cohen |
The United States has yet to endorse equality for people based upon their sexual orientation. Some states and municipalities have done so, and polls show that a majority of Americans support this – but that obviously is not enough. And now the Supreme Court is poised to rule on a case this Spring that will either…
Read More "Super fun work environment!" (older people need not apply)
By Richard Cohen |
Apropos a recent post about words and phrases which subtly-but-not-so-subtly connote that older workers are not wanted, I just read an article which had a short quote from the AARP’s Director of Multicultural outreach and engagement. The article noted that “Subtle words and phrases, like ‘recent college graduate’ and ‘digital native’ are terms … meant to discourage…
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.
