By Michael Homans Transgender rights have been much in the news lately and are starting to hit court dockets. A “Jane Doe” nurse has sued Philadelphia’s Maplewood Nursing Home in the U.S. District Court here, claiming she was fired for objecting to misgendering by trainers there. Doe states in the lawsuit, filed in January, that […]
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At the beginning of May, Amanda Martinez will be joining HomansPeck as a Summer Associate. Amanda Martinez is a rising 3rd-year law student at Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law. She is a recipient of the distinguished Widger Leadership Scholarship – awarded to students who demonstrate exceptional potential in both law and business. Prior
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Michael Homans, founding partner of HomansPeck, LLC, co-presented with Gerald D. Wells III at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Employment Law Institute on April 16 in Philadelphia. Homans and Wells spoke on the topic of litigating Fair Labor Standards Act collective (FLSA) actions from initial demand letter through trial. Homans and Wells both have extensive experience
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Julianne Peck, founding partner of HomansPeck, LLC, co-presented with Christopher Koller at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Employment Law Institute on April 15 in Philadelphia. Peck and Koller spoke on the topic of changing standards and law relating to restrictive covenants, Oh My: The Lions, Tigers, and Bears of Non-Compete Clauses. Peck has extensive experience handling
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By Michael Homans Employers have faced an escalating array of claims of religious rights by employees objecting to Covid vaccination requirements. And surely in the 2024 election campaigns we’ll hear more about what the government did right or wrong in responding to the pandemic. Employees at AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical.took their assertion of religious rights to
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By Robin Bond Salary.com reports that US employers plan to increase salaries an average of 3% in 2024. Employers who have to make market/equity pay adjustments are predicting an additional 0.5% increase for that purpose. SHRM has confirmed that employers in the U.S. plan to raise their compensation budgets for merit increases by 3.5% for
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By Robin Bond We often represent employees who are the subject of an internal investigation at work. Regrettably, we find that the process often is not objective and unbiased, but rather a way for the employer to justify taking pre-determined adverse action against the employee. A recent Philadelphia jury verdict shows how dangerous –
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Things got uncomfortable at Penn State University’s on-campus hotel when a dishwasher there informed a married co-worker that she was pregnant with his baby, according to a complaint filed recently in federal court in Harrisburg, Doe v. Pennsylvania State University. The co-worker began pressuring her to get an abortion, called her a “wh-re,” and harassed her
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Main Line Today news honored Robin Bond on October 4, 2023, as one of 2023’s Power Women of the Main Line. Bond is “of counsel” to HomansPeck, LLC and has her own firm, Transition Strategies. Robin and other honorees were recognized for their success in shaping the region and making waves in their respective industries. Robin
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New York City remains at the vanguard of prohibiting newly recognized forms of discrimination, recently enacting an ordinance that prohibits employers and others from discriminating on the basis of weight and height. NYC also recently joined a growing “mane-stream” of jurisdictions prohibiting hair discrimination.The NYC ordinance on weight and height became law at the end
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