Can't Find a Job at 50? Is it Ageism Or Just Your Own Fault?
By Richard Cohen |
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about an article in the New York Times entitled “To Get A Job At 50, Make Lots Of Friends In Your 40s.” It discussed a new academic study which concluded – surprise! – that people over 50 have a harder and longer time finding work than their younger…
Read More The Mark Of The Beast Meets The Internal Revenue Code
By Richard Cohen |
Religious discrimination cases are dominating headlines – indeed, we are in a period right now where religious rights are frequently being weighed and balanced against other rights, including of course, employers’ rights, in an effort to accommodate religious beliefs — a societal and legal priority. I have often written about what used to be a Title VII…
Read More What Is A “Vulnerable” Worker? The EEOC Has The Answer For Employers
By Richard Cohen |
Protecting “vulnerable” workers is an EEOC priority. An EEOC press release stated that “Combating discrimination against agricultural workers falls within one of the priorities under the EEOC’s Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP): protecting immigrant, migrant and other vulnerable workers.” Workers are “vulnerable” to discrimination and harassment for many reasons and in many situation, mostly evidenced by their…
Read More Hospitals And The ADA: EEOC Playing PR Game To Perfection
By Richard Cohen |
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta was just sued by the EEOC under the ADA for denying an employee a two-week leave extension after he had emergency surgery. An EEOC attorney said: “One would expect that a hospital, of all places, would show understanding and fairness toward an employee who had recently had emergency surgery.” No…
Read More There Are "Too Many Old, Fat, Ugly And Gray-Haired Employees!"
By Richard Cohen |
Just when I was through harping about health care facilities being the target of EEOC suits under the Americans With Disabilities Act, along come a couple of new EEOC lawsuits about my next favorite topic to write about: ageist epithets or what I have called “code words” as evidence of age discrimination. I tells ya there…
Read More Protecting "Vulnerable Workers" Still An EEOC Priority
By Richard Cohen |
I wrote many a post in my prior blog about the EEOC’s Strategic Enforcement Plan (“SEP”), which made protecting “vulnerable” workers a priority. I said before that protecting farm workers, migrant workers, workers in isolated areas, and mentally-challenged Henry’s Turkey workers was something that the EEOC was focusing on. It still is. But some employers either ignore…
Read More Older Workers' Difficulties Getting A Job Their Own Faults?
By Richard Cohen |
This may be an overstatement of the results of a new study reported in today’s New York Times. But not by much. Get out there and network! The study by a management professor found that people over 50 have a harder and longer time finding work than their younger colleagues. It was found that it…
Read More One Last Dead Horse To Beat — The EEOC And Health Care Providers
By Richard Cohen |
Forgive me this once for beating a dead horse again, but the dead horses keep coming! I mean the “dead horse” which I have kept beating and beating for years — the never ending flow of EEOC lawsuits under the ADA which target medical or health care providers. Why won’t these medical folks ever learn? Three…
Read More Can You Spot The Issues? You Have 15 Minutes!
By Richard Cohen |
I thought way back about a law school exam when I read a short squib in the September 25th New York Law Journal by Mark Hamblett entitled “Synagogue Sued Over Firing of Pregnant Employee,” which describes in a few, short sentences a new employment discrimination lawsuit filed in federal court in New York. I want to present…
Read More It's Not A Good Idea To Have A Policy Of Firing Employees When They Turn 62
By Richard Cohen |
A large Wisconsin heating and plumbing contractor learned the hard way that it is not OK to have a policy of firing people simply because they turn 62. Or to retaliate when the employees contend (correctly) that this is illegal. As an EEOC attorney put it, besides being illegal, this type of policy or practice “rupture[s] the…
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.
