A Tale of Two (NFL) Brians: Two Employment Lawyers Weigh In On Race Discrimination Lawsuit
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Race-based Discrimination, Harassment
Beginning a lawsuit with a smoking gun text, dropping the f-bomb, and a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gains attention, but does the 58-page Complaint alleging systemic race discrimination filed by the Miami Dolphins former head coach, Brian Flores, against the National Football League (NFL), the Dolphins, New York Giants, and Denver Broncos…
Read More Fire Department In Flames With Discrimination and Retaliation Claims
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace, Race, Religion, and National Origin, Retaliation, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment
Quite often, retaliation claims bite employers in the backside rather than employees’ underlying claims for sexual or race-based harassment and other forms of discrimination. That’s what I was thinking as I read about a complaint filed last month against the Hillsboro government and chiefs at the Hillsboro Fire & Rescue Department. Three current employees allege…
Read More Race Discrimination Has No Place In A Classroom…Or a Law School
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, Diversity and Inclusion, Race, Religion, and National Origin
This past week, Georgetown Law School fired one of its adjunct professors, a lawyer, mediator, and veteran adjunct professor at the school for 20 years for making race-based stereotyping comments. Here’s what happened: the adjunct professor, Sandra Sellers, and a colleague were talking at the end of their virtual class, which was still recording, about…
Read More Reckoning With Race Discrimination In Federal Workplaces
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Discrimination in the Workplace
On January 20, 2021, in one of his first acts as the 46th President of the United States, President Biden revoked an executive order (EO) barring government contractors, including subcontractors and grantees of federal funds, from certain types of racial sensitivity training in the workplace. Indeed, the link to the former training ban no longer…
Read More Keeping It Real: Cases of Race-Based Harassment Continue
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, Race, Religion, and National Origin
By: Amy Epstein Gluck Employers, what kind of culture are you fostering? Is it one of respect and intolerance of unlawful harassment? Or is it one that perpetuates systemic racism? That is one question raised in this recent federal complaint, filed by two former employees and one current employee, all Black, against one employer in…
Read More No "N-Word," But A Noose: Brevity Is The Soul Of Witlessness
By Richard Cohen | | Uncategorized
Two racial harassment cases were just settled by the EEOC and the only thing of real note to me is that the N-word apparently was not used. This is an exception in these cases, of course. Racial animus still rears its ugly head in the workplace, as these cases evidence. I try to post about every…
Read More You Were Genetically Built To Work Like A Dog, KaBobby!
By Richard Cohen | | Uncategorized
Here’s one last post for the old year, may it rest in peace. And it’s a doozy.* (Apology upfront: the employee at issue was allegedly told that he was “genetically built” to work two jobs because of his national origin, not to work like a dog. I took a little poetic license because it sounded…
Read More Black Hair Was “Dreadful” – But New Laws Are Changing All That
By Richard Cohen | | Uncategorized
In an ATL post in early 2018 I mentioned an article in The New York Times which said that “America has always had trouble with black hair,” and that “[t]he bias against black hair is as old as America itself. … [in the 18th century] British colonists classified African hair as closer to sheep wool…
Read More When Does Title VII Protect “Perceived As” Claims Based On Race?
By Amy Epstein Gluck | | Abuse in the Workplace, Discrimination in the Workplace, EEOC, Sexual Harassment
By: Amy Epstein Gluck An interesting question, says the law geek, as I read about a British theater director who self-identified as Black. Now, he, the son of two white Irish parents, was actually not Black. However, people often assumed this dude was mixed race due to his hair and facial structure. He was “perceived…
Read More Staffing Company Alleged To Have Violated Virtually Every Employment Discrimination Law
By Richard Cohen | | Uncategorized
The “N-word” again. It’s been some time since we’ve seen that is an employment discrimination lawsuit. And alleged violations of Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA … discrimination on the basis of sex, race, age, and disability. Wow! All from one employer! What were they thinking? (No, don’t tell me). The EEOC has alleged in…
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.
