September 2010

 Christine O’Donnell, the Republican nominee for Senate in Delaware, has further problems with her resume.  She claims on her Linkedin page to have taken a course at the well-known Oxford University in Emgland.  Well, not quite.  What she actually took was a course from Phoenix University, a well-knwon for-profit school, at Oxford.  Phoenix rented space…

The work place can be a very dangerous place.  Workplace Prof presents a scenario that concerns another unnamed professor.  See post.  Workplace refers to another blog at: suburbdad.blogspot.com/.  Well, since Dean Dad posted the original post at his blog, Community College Dean, Dean Dad has taken back down the post at the request of the…

 I try to talk on this forum about employment issues and discrimination in general.  Since I am an Iraq veteran, I also discuss the war from time to time, typically simply to note the death of a local soldier killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.  So, when a local governmental entity itself expresses some form of…

I have written here before that high dollar verdicts often indicate a jury became angry about a lawsuit.  In Velez v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., the jury awarded $250 million in punitive damages.  See posts here and here.  This is the largest punitive damage award in any class action lawsuit, I am told.  Novartis,…

The national unemployment rate has increased from 9.5% to 9.6%.  See report.  54,000 government jobs were lost during the month of August.  That loss is probably due to the loss of census jobs.  But, there was an increase of 67,000 private sector jobs.  In Texas, the unemployment rate rose slightly from 8.2% to 8.3%.

 Workplace harassment takes many forms.  In the San Antonio Police Department, two police officers stuffed trash in a female co-worker’s mailbox.  They hid her squad car when she needed it. Now, the two male co-workers have been placed on suspension.  See San Antonio Express News story.  One of the male police officers is 31…

 Why would an employer provide grounds for a lawsuit to an employee?  It is hard to fathom, but Bexar Metropolitan Water District has fired a business analyst whose warnings about improper accounting practices were supported by a a consultant.  See San Antonio Express News report. Gilbert Herrera’s warnings were well-reported prior to his termination.