SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF WORK RULES COULD LEAD TO A LAWSUIT QUESTION: We recently hired a new employee, and she’s not working out – she rubs people the wrong way. I’m ready to let her go. Her manager noticed she’s on-line a lot
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LAID OFF FROM PART-TIME WORK? YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS FROM THE MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYMENT AGENCY QUESTION: Do you have to work full-time to get unemployment? I worked part-time, 25 hours per week, and was laid off after working for almost three
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CAN A JOB APPLICANT SUE FOR AGE DISCRIMINATION? QUESTION: My company is looking to fill a few entry-level positions. Our Human Resources department prepared a job announcement which stated we are looking for “recent college graduates.” After a several weeks, we filled
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IF A DISABILITY IS INVISIBLE, DO EMPLOYERS NEED TO PROVIDE AN ACCOMMODATION? QUESTION: I had an employee who started showing up to work late a lot. She called in one day and asked if she could work a different schedule, because she
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EMPLOYEE WHO MADE SAME WORKPLACE ERROR AS OTHERS BUT PUNISHED MORE SEVERELY MAY HAVE A CLAIM OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION QUESTION: I made a major error at work, and I was fired. One of my co-workers made the same error, but he was
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GWINN TAURIAINEN PLLC HOSTING ESTATE PLANNING SEMINAR Through Waterford School District Community Education It’s your estate plan. Something you know you need to do – but you keep putting it off. On Tuesday, February 21, 2017, try a new approach and put
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SAVE THE DATE! GWINN TAURIAINEN PLLC HOSTING ESTATE PLANNING SEMINAR Through Waterford School District Community Education It’s your estate plan. Something you know you need to do – but you keep putting it off. On Tuesday, February 21, 2017, try a new
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PART III: FROM BAD TO WORSE AND THEN SOME: THREATENED BY THE MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYMENT AGENCY AFTER YOU’VE LOST YOUR JOB GWINN TAURIAINEN PLLC by: Daniel A. Gwinn, Esq. & Laura Bradshaw Tucker, Esq. In the third of our series on the Michigan
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AUTOPSY REPORT ON THE MICHIGAN RECOUNT ROLE REVERSAL: STRICT CONSTRUCTIONISTS BECOME ACTIVISTS IN MICHIGAN RECOUNT DECISIONS By: Daniel A. Gwinn, Esq. & Laura Bradshaw Tucker, Esq. As rumors of electoral hacking abounded, Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein filed a request for
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PART II: FROM BAD TO WORSE AND THEN SOME: THREATENED BY THE MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYMENT AGENCY AFTER YOU’VE LOST YOUR JOB by: Daniel A. Gwinn, Esq. & Laura Bradshaw Tucker, Esq. In the second of our series on the Michigan Unemployment Agency (UIA), we
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