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March 27, 2025 Deception, Discrimination, and Severance, Oh My! An Appeals Court Ruling against the Chicago White Sox Might Affect Future Severance Negotiations
Category: Chicago, Contract Law, Courts, Discrimination, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Illinois, LGBTQ, Mary F. Charlton, Severance, Sports, Termination, Workplace Discrimination
September 04, 2024 Can You Be Pregnant and an All-Star? The WNBA Wrestles with Allegations of Discrimination—and Its Commitment to Its Players.
Category: Accommodation, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Human Resources, Kristin Hendriksen, Leave from work, Pregnancy, Retaliation, Sports, Title VII, WNBA, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture
March 18, 2024 Trade Secret Litigation in the NBA Far From a Slam Dunk
Category: Amit Bindra, Non-compete, Non-solicitation, Restrictive covenant, Sports
April 20, 2022 The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Shatters Another Glass Ceiling!
Category: Compensation, Discrimination, Equal Pay, Gender Neutrality, Navdeep Gill, Sports, Title VII, Wage Gap, Women in the Workplace
January 10, 2022 Technical Foul on Sun's Owner: Inside the Hostile Work Environment of the NBA Phoenix Suns
Category: Christina Martinez, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, Sports, Workplace culture, Workplace discipline
December 29, 2021 The Washington Football Team, Jon Gruden, and Employment Law
Category: Amit Bindra, Discrimination, Employment Law, sexual harassment, Sports, Women in the Workplace, Workplace investigations
August 27, 2021 Blackhawks in the Penalty Box: Why Safe Workplaces & Timely Investigations Are So Important
Category: Elizabeth Hanford, sexual harassment, Sports, Workplace culture, Workplace discipline, Workplace investigations, Workplace training
July 26, 2021 Should We Pay Student Athletes?
Category: Compensation, Employment Law, Legal Changes, NCAA, Poonam Lakhani, Sports, Supreme Court, Wages
April 14, 2015 Wage Madness: Can and Should the NCAA Pay Student-Athletes?
Category: Amit Bindra, Compensation, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, NCAA, Sports