WARREN E BULIOX, ESQ.

Recent Articles from WARREN E BULIOX, ESQ.

Blogs November 15, 2013

JOB CITES: Joint employer liability in the employment discrimination context

Can an employer be held liable for acts of employment discrimination carried out by another employer? The quick, lawyerly answer is ... it depends.

Blogs April 5, 2013

JOB CITES: Check your employment at-will policy, it may be violating the law

Recently, the National Labor Relations Board has taken a stance against employer policies that foreclose any possibility of altering the at-will employment relationship.

Blogs December 5, 2012

JOB CITES: Don’t be fooled: Labor laws apply to nonunion employers

Consider the following scenario: You are a nonunion employer who has just conducted an internal investigation into a harassment complaint by an employee (let’s call her Monica).

Blogs July 16, 2012

JOB CITES: Being aware of ‘anti-fat prejudice’ is worth its weight

A good friend of mine -- not named Warren -- is around 5-foot-9 with boots on, and over the last few years or so has fluctuated between 185 and 200 pounds.

Blogs February 23, 2012

JOB CITES: Revisiting transgenderism in the workplace

Some of you may recall my article a few years back entitled “What About Roberta?” about transgenderism in the workplace. In that piece, we followed “Bob,” a long-term employee who came into an office seeking support as he went through the process of transitioning [...]

Blogs October 21, 2011

JOB CITES: Be mindful of what your employees do for recreation: It could cost you

Ordinarily, when you think of a compensable injury for workers’ compensation purposes, you think of an injury that occurs on the worksite while performing services growing out of or incidental to employment.

Blogs June 16, 2011

JOB CITES: Carefully draft ‘cause’ provisions in employment contracts

Contrary to popular belief in some circles, employment contracts are generally not a bad idea. If drafted properly, they give employees extra job security and employers a tool in which to set contractually based standards on employment, such as, but not limited to, setting the duration of employment for highly skilled and sought-after talent.

Blogs December 21, 2010

EEOC investigations can have broad scope

Imagine that one of your former employees, Bill, filed a Charge of Discrimination against your company with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC" or the "Commission"), alleging sex discrimination in violation of Title VII.

Blogs September 15, 2010

Good nicknames can quickly go bad

What's really in a name? A bit of family history, a way to distinguish ourselves and perhaps a reflection of trends in popular culture. What about legal liability?

Blogs June 21, 2010

Commentary: Laws vary on whether recording is allowed

With the advent of pocket-sized recorders, sophisticated cell phones, and other covert recording devices, a growing number of employees — whether disgruntled or not — are secretly recording conversations in […]

Blogs April 19, 2010

Commentary: Interviewing pitfalls

Last summer, an Internet article on msn.careerbuilder.com offered a list of forty-three remarks made by applicants during an interview which gave pause to human resources. Some of these remarks were […]