Tom Spiggle will join a list of notable speakers on Feb. 2, 2018 at the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA)’s 2018 CLE Conference at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. Spiggle will join Christine Webber with Cohen Milstein and Alan Kabat from Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC on a panel to talk about discovery issues in employment […]
January 25, 2017 Tom Spiggle joined a panel of speakers today at Georgetown Law as part of the “The Changing Nature of Low-Wage Work: How Automation & the Gig Economy Impact the Future of Work” event discussing the impact of employment law rights in the gig economy. Spiggle joined an impressive lineup of speakers including Christine
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November 28, 2017 In the wake of ongoing sexual misconduct allegations in Hollywood, Congress and the media, some male bosses are thinking of adopting what is known as the “Pence Rule.” Common among evangelical Christians, the rule is based on the practices of Southern Baptist minister Billy Graham, who refused to eat, travel or meet alone with any
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November 16, 2017 In early October of 2017, The New York Times published a damning article about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and his long history of sexual harassment. The story seemingly opened a floodgate where women came forward to share their own stories, and this resulted in numerous high-profile people from all industries ranging from
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November 15, 2017 Still, be careful about sharing your secret with any co-workers before letting your boss know. Pregnancy discrimination is still an issue women contend with, and if your boss gets wind that you’re pregnant, it can lead to some gray areas. “If you weren’t on record as having told them that you’re pregnant,
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November 1, 2017 Tom Spiggle served as the moderator at today’s D.C. Bar’s LPM Community Big Law Series: Big Law and Babies. He joined a panel of speakers in discussing how to raise a family while maintaining a career at a big law firm. The panel of speakers consisted of practicing attorneys who are also
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October 30, 2017 Those fired may argue that they are the ones being unfairly targeted; the former Google employee has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board arguing that his rights were violated. But, the NLRB notes, its protection does not extend to “saying or doing something egregiously offensive.” Or, as employment lawyer
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October 23, 2017 According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2,945 charges were filed in Virginia in fiscal year 2016. Of those, 1,069 charges were on the basis of race, and 881 on sex. That number doesn’t reflect the volume of sexual harassment and assault cases that don’t go reported, or aren’t reported to the
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October 20, 2017 Founder of the Spiggle Law Firm, Tom Spiggle, will speak about employment law at the 2017 Fairfax Bar Association’s Annual Convention on Friday, Oct. 20. He will sit on a panel at the continuing legal education session on what lawyers need to know about fact patterns. The speakers at the CLE panel
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Washington Business Journal | July 7, 2017 Uber, 500 Startups, Fox News, American Apparel, Binary, Sterling Jewelers — all companies, big and small, that made recent headlines for suffering the consequences of sexual harassment allegations and lawsuits. The problem is even more pervasive than these high-profile cases, and most companies still aren’t doing the right
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