Instagram intel—can an employer use it?
Posted on May 1, 2015
Posted in Discrimination Law, Social Media
Let’s say one of your employees has a tendency to call in sick on Fridays when it just so happens to be 72 degrees and sunny out. Another employee reports to you that last Friday, that same worker posted a picture of herself on Instagram at a nearby water park, despite the fact that she […]
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EEOC Has to Pay for Unreasonably Instituting Litigation
Posted on April 4, 2014
Posted in Title VII
Title VII includes a fee-shifting provision, allowing district courts discretion to award reasonable attorneys’ fees to a prevailing party. But what if the non-prevailing party is the EEOC? The Fourth Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s award of attorneys’ fees to a prevailing defendant in a case brought by the EEOC where the district court […]
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