Hess Law Firm

09/25/2019

A budding issue yet to be resolved under Florida’s laws...

Groundbreaking lawsuits are making employers and states rethink the way the workplace treats w**d.

07/03/2019

The recent tax laws have a profound effect on taxation of recoveries by Plaintiffs in certain kinds of legal claims, as clearly explained in this article about the huge Round Up verdict....

Because of a change in the tax law, man who won massive w**dkiller award could end up with much less

05/06/2019

A good read on (un)Equal Pay for women, especially those of color, and a proposed solution in the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA)...

SILVER SPRING, Md. Equal Pay Day, held annually in April, symbolizes the additional time women work for the same pay the average male worker earned last year.

04/03/2019

Kudos to this young woman with a disability for all that she’s accomplished for herself and for others with her success....

Haley Moss talks to MarketWatch ahead of World Autism Awareness Day.

04/02/2019

Ever heard of Equal Pay Day? It’s a day that symbolizes the amount of days women have to work into the new year to earn the same amount men earned by the end of the previous year. That day is today — April 2 — more than 60 work days (or 480 working hours) into 2019.

It's brutal, when you look at a lifetime of wage inequality

02/03/2019

Interesting article about a woman who “broke the barrier” as a Navy Pilot with an interesting nod to John McCain.....

Capt. Rosemary Mariner, who died Jan. 24, was the first female pilot to fly a tactical fighter jet and command an aviation squadron.

11/08/2018

Discrimination begets discrimination---in the case of the use of salary history as an interview question. Hopefully, more governments will pass laws that will prevent this serious and invidious form of discrimination.

Several states and cities have ordered employers to stop asking about salary history.

07/25/2018

The uproar—involving Paul T. Reid of Shook Hardy & Bacon and Christen Luikart of Murphy Anderson—comes just as the Florida Supreme Court is weighing a proposed rule that would create a presumption that pregnant lawyers should get three-month continuances.

07/14/2018

HR.....a dangerous profession?

A woman's last day of work at a home health care company ended with her arrest after she allegedly stabbed a human resources employee with a pen

04/03/2018

A thoughtful article by the author of a book about her experience trying to survive on minimum wage jobs....

Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can't save up enough to move on.