Today, I am pleased to announce that Meyers Roman has expanded our employment-law capabilities by adding Douglas B. Brown, LLC (DBB), a boutique national affirmative action law firm.
I’ll quote my firm’s official statement:
Focusing on management-side affirmative action compliance, DBB will significantly broaden, support and strengthen our Labor & Employment Group to assure our clients’ compliance with the increasingly complex affirmative action and Equal Employment Opportunity regulations for federal contractors and subcontractors.
DBB has served a wide range of clients in the manufacturing, mining, construction, communications, financial, health care, social services and educational sectors.
According to Seth Briskin, Managing Partner and Chair of our Labor & Employment Practice group, “the addition of the DBB firm is a real differentiator for Meyers Roman. It gives us the unique ability to offer affirmative action plans and related employment law consulting to our federal contractor clients and DBB’s established client base as well as a growing number of new clients both in Ohio and across the country.”
If you are a federal contractor or subcontractor and need an affirmative action plan drafted or retooled, are engaged in an OFCCP audit, or otherwise need affirmative-action related services, please let me know how we can leverage our new capabilities to help your business.
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- The ADA usually doesn’t require accommodating an employee’s first choice of yoga classes. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- From Service Dogs to Comfort Snakes – What Must Be Allowed at Work? — via Minnesota Employment Law Report
- Speak out for people with disabilities and the ADA! — via MomsRising
- When Do You (Not) Have to Continue an ADA Accommodation? — via The Emplawyerologist
- Episode 14 – Santa Comes and Murders the Group with an Axe — via The Hostile Work Environment Podcast
- Thoughts on Sexual Harassment—a Personal Perspective — via EntertainHR
- “What Did You Make at Your Last Job?” – Is That Still a Question? — via BeLabor The Point
- Social Media Sexual Harassment & Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White — via Shear on Social Media Law
- Chatbots Chatting — via Kate Bischoff’s tHRive Law & Consulting
- Don’t use Huawei phones, say heads of FBI, CIA, and NSA — via The Verge
- 97% of cybersecurity leaders are evaluating vendor security, including law firms, says new survey — via ABA Journal Daily News
- Cybercrime Costs for Financial Sector up 40% Since 2014 — via Dark Reading
- GSA is Updating its Cybersecurity and Incident Reporting Requirements — via Privacy & Data Security Insight
- My employee sent a memo to management about ghosts in the building — via Ask a Manager
- The Right and Wrong Way to Use Humor in the Workplace — via HR Acuity
- The Very First Day of Work. Ever. — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Generational Warfare in the Workplace: Some Calling for a Ceasefire — via HR Hero Line
- Remote Work: A Necessity, Not a Perk — via TalentCulture
- The latest workplace problem: Workers with too little to do — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Trump’s budget proposal cuts DOL, pushes new paid leave program — via HR Dive
- Navigating the Patchwork of Paid Family Leave Laws — via Next Blog
- Aeroflow Looks to Set Example with New Parental Leave Policy — via 1 Million for Work Flexibility
- There is No Finer Valentine’s Day Gift: the ABA’s Summary of 2017 FMLA Court Decisions! — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- Moonlighting While On FMLA Leave — via Employment Essentials
- Unions Now Target Private Equity Owners of Companies They Seek to Organize — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- Unions are Fighting for Families by Supporting Women and Rejecting the Status Quo — via Workplace Fairness
- NLRB directs regional ‘cost cutting initiatives’ — via CUE, Inc.
- Your Rigid Attendance Policies Are Making Everyone Sick — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Reducing flu at work is a matter of business continuity — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Employers who don’t offer paid sick leave are making flu season worse and hurting their own bottom line — via Wonkblog