by John Lawhorn | Aug 5, 2019 | EAST TENNESSEE EMPLOYMENT LAW ADVISER, EMPLOYMENT LAW
Over the last three years I have posted several times concerning efforts by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and private litigants to have federal courts construe federal statutory protections against workplace discrimination on the basis of “sex” to...
by John Lawhorn | Jul 12, 2018 | EAST TENNESSEE EMPLOYMENT LAW ADVISER, EMPLOYMENT LAW
On July 1, 2017, over 130 new laws recently enacted by the Tennessee legislature became effective. One of those imposes new reporting requirements on employers in the healthcare sector whose licensed healthcare employees test positive on a drug test or refuse to...
by John Lawhorn | Oct 27, 2017 | EAST TENNESSEE EMPLOYMENT LAW ADVISER, EMPLOYMENT LAW
In August 2016, I discussed a recent decision of the United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals which held “that Title VII does not redress sexual orientation discrimination.” As I mentioned in that post, the 7th Circuit’s decision was the first federal appeals court...
by John Lawhorn | Oct 2, 2017 | EAST TENNESSEE EMPLOYMENT LAW ADVISER, EMPLOYMENT LAW
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a revised version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. All employers are expected to use the revised form by September 18, 2017. Failure to use the new form after that date will...
by John Lawhorn | Jun 9, 2017 | EAST TENNESSEE EMPLOYMENT LAW ADVISER, EMPLOYMENT LAW
As an employment lawyer, I tend to focus a substantial part of my time on the consequences that may follow employee terminations that are involuntary. From time to time, however, questions do arise in the context of voluntary resignations. For instance, I am...
