Tom Spiggle

Tom founded Spiggle Law to help individuals facing difficult workplace issues. Although Spiggle Law represents employees in many different matters, Tom has a soft spot for those who suffer from discrimination. As a former prosecutor with significant experience in high-level criminal cases, Tom is also uniquely qualified to represent individuals subject to workplace investigations and criminal prosecutions.

Military discrimination and arbitration

If My Employer Violated USERRA, Can I Be Forced to Use Arbitration?

Military

Under the Uniformed Services Employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), veterans and service members have some protections from discrimination based on their military service and are given the right to return to their civilian jobs once their active service ends. But, as in many other areas of employment law, federal courts have dismissed USERRA legal […]

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Can I Have a Case for Sexual Harassment If Something Happened Once?

Sexual Harassment

If you are the victim of sexual harassment, the law is not a mathematical formula. If it is serious enough, a single act of harassment could be considered illegal sexual harassment, though generally, the more often it happens, the stronger the case. For example, if a billionaire real estate developer grabbed a female employee’s genitals

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Pregnancy discrimination under the PDA and ADA

Kroger Employee Brings Class Action Lawsuit for Pregnancy Discrimination

ADA, Pregnancy Discrimination

Pregnancies are marvels of Mother Nature. It’s amazing how just a few seemingly simple cells can turn into the biological machine we call a human being. Given the complexity of the gestation process, it’s not surprising that pregnancy complications can occur. However, understanding that so many things could go wrong during a pregnancy doesn’t make

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Workforce Magazine: Parental Leave Predictions Under the Trump Administration

In the News

November 29, 2016 The United States is the only developed country not to offer paid leave to mothers and fathers of newborn children. During the 2016 presidential campaign, the issue of paid leave was very prominent in Hillary Clinton’s platform, and President-elect Donald Trump eventually proposed a paid-leave plan as well. Based on his rhetoric

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Interference as an ADA claim

EEOC Issues Updated Retaliation Guidance, Part 4: Interference Versus Retaliation Under the ADA

ADA, Retaliation

Imagine you work for an employer covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Due to your ADA-recognized disability, you need to take certain medications at work and avoid certain job duties as ordered by your doctor. Despite the fact that your medication requirement or job duties restriction can be reasonably accommodated by

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The JD Journal: How to Handle Sexual Harassment at Law Firms

Advice, In the News, Sexual Harassment

November 23, 2016 What to do if you are being harassed? Tom Spiggle, founder of Spiggle Law Firm, told Forbes that there was a series of actions people can do if they’re being sexually harassed at work. 1. Talk to an experienced sexual harassment lawyer.  Spiggle said that one obstacle women encounter when meeting with Human

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EEOC Issues Updated Retaliation Guidance, Part 3: Proving Retaliation

Retaliation

In Parts 1 and 2 of our series of blog posts discussing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Enforcement Guidance on workplace retaliation, we discussed promising practices that employees can use as a framework for determining whether retaliation has taken place and what constitutes a protected activity. Assuming an employee is the victim of retaliation

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What is a protected activity?

EEOC Issues Updated Retaliation Guidance, Part 2: What Constitutes a Protected Activity?

Retaliation

We first discussed the newly released retaliation Enforcement Guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in our blog post titled “EEOC Issues Updated Guidance on Workplace Retaliation.” However, due to the comprehensive nature of this Enforcement Guidance, we were only able to discuss the subject of promising practices, which was one of many

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EEOC Issues Updated Guidance on Workplace Retaliation; Suggests Protected Practices

Retaliation

Over the next four blogs, we will provide an overview of the key elements of the EEOC’s recently released Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues. Today, we begin with an overview of retaliation and an explanation of the EEOC’s suggested “protected practices.”  Retaliation in the workplace is widespread and forms the most frequently cited

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