Can’t Shake Hands With Women And Other Employment Dilemmas

The employment pool at every level  is becoming more diverse and multicultural, sometimes leading to a collision not only of customs, but of legal rights. Seyfarth Shaw attorney Megan Poonolly considers a situation where the job candidate, at the conclusion of the interview, explicitly declines to accept the proffered handshake from the female interviewer, and the issues that raises. This is the first of a series of articles from the firm about the employment-related dilemmas that can arise “when the protection of one group potentially leads to claims from another.”