Companies Confounded by RTO Conflicts
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Covid-19, Disabilities and Accommodations (ADA), Discrimination in the Workplace, General Employer Guidance, Mental Health
RTO or “return to work” issues continue to plague employers. Executives tend to want workers to come into the workplace, and employees collectively respond “Meh. We’ll see.” Employers, I implore you to craft your RTO policies with enough flexibility to maintain that workplace culture you think you are cultivating by trying to mandate attendance in…
Read More How To Prevent Sexual Harassment In Your Restaurants, Bars, and Stores
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, LGBTQ+, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment
By: Amy Epstein Gluck As we continue to counsel clients large and small about how to prevent sexual harassment in this #MeToo era, I recently read about this project, “Not on the Menu,” the brain child of one restaurant owner and her staff during a problem-solving meeting after a customer put his hand up one…
Read More Employers, Can You Fire An Employee In Rehab for An Opioid Addiction?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Accommodation of Disabilities, Addiction, Disabilities and Accommodations (ADA), Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, Uncategorized
By: Amy Epstein Gluck As the late, great Amy Winehouse sang: They tried to make me go to rehab I said, “no, no, no” Employers, if an employee seeks leave to go to rehab, your refrain is more likely to be, “yes, yes, yes.” Why? If an employee seeks help to treat an addiction, said employee…
Read More One Mama's Memo: Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Retaliation Policies Must Be Enforced To Be Effective
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, Retaliation, Sex Discrimination
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Your anti-discrimination, -harassment, and -retaliation policies must be enforced to be effective. It’s likely that this is no news flash, but in practice, people tend to forget. Case in point: yet another public memo to a household name company demonstrating that all that glitters may not be gold. What am I…
Read More Employers, Do You Have “Meaningful Measures” In Place to Combat Disability Discrimination? #ADA
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Accommodation of Disabilities, Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, General Employer Guidance
By: Amy Epstein Gluck What’s not a good idea? Terminating an employee who requests a reasonable accommodation. Or failing to even discuss said accommodation. One employer found this out the hard way. Yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces the federal anti-discrimination laws including the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA),…
Read More EEOC Quantifies Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Claims for 2018…So Far.
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, Race-based Discrimination, Harassment, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Remember I just told you here that workplace harassment claims increased markedly in the last year? Well, some financial data is in. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it obtained approximately $505 million for nearly 68,000 victims of discrimination in the workplace, broken down as follows: $354 million through mediation, conciliation,…
Read More A Federal Jury Sends a Message in the #MeToo Era
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, Sexual Harassment
By: Amy Epstein Gluck #MeToo is real. That is, #MeToo as a movement or an era or even a concept applies to real people of all backgrounds, to blue collar as well as white collar workers. One thing I know for sure—no one sets out desiring to be in the #MeToo club. In fact, I’d…
Read More Oklahoma!
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Accommodation of Disabilities, Drug Testing
By: Amy Epstein Gluck No, I’m not talking about the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and then film where girl chooses between two boys. I’m talking about marijuana. Medical marijuana. Oklahoma recently became the latest state to enact a medical marijuana law. The relevance from an employment law standpoint is that employers can no longer take…
Read More Sexual Harassment Guidelines—Wonder Woman Gets It!
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, Sexual Harassment
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Wait, what? What does Wonder Woman have to do with employment law? The set of the sequel to Wonder Woman—aptly named Wonder Woman 2—is the first film, officially, to adopt the Producer’s Guild of America’s (“PGA”) recently announced sexual harassment guidelines in the wake of ongoing sexual harassment accusations in Hollywood. This…
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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.
