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Employee Survival Guide®

Mark Carey | Employment Lawyer & Employee Advocate

The Employee Survival Guide® is a podcast only for employees about everything related to work and your career. We will share with you all the information your employer and Human Resources does not want you to know about working and guide you through various work and employment law issues. This is an employee podcast. The Employee Survival Guide® podcast is hosted by seasoned Employment Law Attorney Mark Carey, who has only practiced in the area of Employment Law for the past 29 years. Mark has seen

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23:51

Top 10 Job Survival Skills

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2025/12/02

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. Ever feel like everyone else got the manual for office politics and you’re improvising in a storm? We unpack a practical survival playbook to protect your job, build leverage, and navigate messy power dynamics without losing your edge or your voice. The theme is simple: awareness plus preparation beats fear. We start by sharpening situational awareness—how to watch your back, read tells, and set boundaries so you spot risks early. Then we b...

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28:39

Walsh v. Fitch Solutions: When Culture Collides With...

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2025/11/27

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. This episode is part of my initiative to provide access to important court decisions impacting employees in an easy to understand conversational format using AI. The speakers in the episode are AI generated and frankly sound great to listen to. Enjoy! A top performer with a life-threatening migraine condition built a 15-year career, earned awards, and worked remotely with a documented accommodation—until a post-merger cultu...

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31:52

Remote Work On Trial: Russo v. National Grid $3.1...

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2025/11/27

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. This episode is part of my initiative to provide access to important court decisions impacting employees in an easy to understand conversational format using AI. The speakers in the episode are AI generated and frankly sound great to listen to. Enjoy! Public safety, disability rights, and remote work collide in a courtroom story with real‑world consequences. We walk through how two veteran gas dispatchers, armed with a two‑...

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7:42

Five Years After Remote Work Reckoning

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2025/11/26

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. What happens when the biggest workplace experiment in modern history becomes admissible evidence? Five years after COVID reshaped how we work, we take a clear-eyed look at remote work’s legacy—what it proved, who it protected, and why some employers are trying to forget the results. We trace the arc from lifeline to legal battleground, exposing how rigid return-to-office policies are pushing out the very people who kept companies alive: disa...

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Employnomics Is Everything Employers Do to Employees...

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2025/11/24

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. The rules at work often feel invisible until they hit you in the paycheck, the bathroom break you can’t take, or the termination you didn’t see coming. We put a name to that operating system—employonomics—and trace how it quietly moves power, money, and risk from employees to employers through legal frameworks and everyday practices that look neutral but bite hard. We unpack how discrimination becomes profitable when arbitration buries publ...

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18:23

You May Be Protected and Not Know It: Understanding...

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2025/11/21

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. Think your medical condition or disability doesn’t “count” because it isn’t visible or permanent? That assumption costs careers. We dig into how disability rights actually work on the ground, why silence helps employers more than employees, and the simple forms of “notice” that trigger your legal protections. From anxiety and migraines to Crohn’s, postpartum depression, and recovery from surgery, the coverage is broader than most people thin...

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23:59

Inside A $464M Verdict Against Corporate Retaliation...

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2025/11/20

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. This episode is part of my initiative to provide access to important court decisions impacting employees in an easy to understand conversational format using AI. The speakers in the episode are AI generated and frankly sound great to listen to. Enjoy! A half-billion-dollar verdict in the case of Martinez v. Southern California Edison doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when a culture rots, a whistleblower speaks up, and ...

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22:06

Employees Need Legal Advice Before Downloading...

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2025/11/17

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. Think you’re protecting yourself by forwarding emails, saving pay spreadsheets, and uploading screenshots to a chatbot before HR lowers the boom? That impulse can turn a strong discrimination or retaliation claim into a story about you breaking the rules. We walk through the hidden legal traps that many employees miss—confidentiality agreements, acceptable use policies, non-disparagement clauses—and how employers flip those mistakes into a r...

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19:39

Velez v. Novartis: Gender Discrimination Class Action

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2025/11/12

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. This episode is part of my initiative to provide access to important court decisions impacting employees in an easy to understand conversational format using AI. The speakers in the episode are AI generated and frankly sound great to listen to. Enjoy! Headlines rarely explain how discrimination actually works; the paperwork does. We take you inside a sweeping class action against Novartis where plaintiffs alleged a nationwi...

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29:56

S6: Ep.142: Tom Hayes vs UBS AG: Inside The LIBOR...

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2025/10/29

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. Tom Hayes v. UBS, Connecticut Superior Court case filed on October 27, 2025 seeking $400 Million (Read Complaint HERE): A tiny shift in an interest rate can move oceans of money. We follow that ripple to its breaking point, tracing how Tom Hayes became the public face of LIBOR manipulation, then—years later—won full vindication in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Along the way, we unpack the documents, emails, and interna...

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S6 Ep 141 When Your Boss is a Robot: Understanding AI...

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2025/10/23

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. Your next performance review might be scored by a model you’ve never met. We dig into how AI is reshaping hiring, promotion, discipline, and workplace surveillance, and we explain what that means for your rights under anti-discrimination and privacy laws. From the promise of efficiency to the reality of bias, we unpack why intent isn’t required for liability and how disparate impact applies whether a manager or a machine makes the call. We ...

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S6 Ep 140 Lowering The Bar In Workplace Bias Cases

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2025/10/23

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. This episode is part of my initiative to provide access to important court decisions impacting employees in an easy to understand conversational format using AI. The speakers in the episode are AI generated and frankly sound great to listen to. Enjoy! A single HR form can decide a lawsuit. We dig into Shear v. Sisters of Charity to show how a mandatory EAP referral and a required compliance-reporting form collided with the ...

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S6 Ep.138: Ames v. Ohio Is Already Changing the Game...

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2025/10/20

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. A quiet procedural shift just changed the first mile of discrimination lawsuits. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services didn’t rewrite what counts as discrimination; it removed a gate that kept thousands from ever presenting their evidence. We walk through the ruling, why the Court’s unanimous reasoning leans on Title VII’s “any individual” language, and how it replaces a two-track system with one equal starting line for everyone. We tra...

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S6 Ep137: What Does the Government Shutdown Mean for...

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2025/10/20

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. When Washington goes dark, your employment case enters a gray zone where agencies stall, courts keep moving, and legal deadlines rarely pause. We unpack the real-world consequences of a federal shutdown on discrimination claims, EEOC investigations, MSPB filings, and federal court practice—then map out the steps that actually protect your rights when the phones go silent. We start with what truly closes and what keeps running. The EEOC pare...

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S6 Ep. 139: EEOC Closes the Book On Disparate Impact...

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2025/10/20

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. The ground just shifted under workplace civil rights. Federal investigators have closed thousands of disparate impact charges, and right-to-sue letters are landing across the country. We walk through what this change really means: the legal theory behind disparate impact, why the EEOC halted these cases, and how the responsibility now moves squarely to workers and their advocates. We unpack the practical steps for bringing a case to court w...

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S6 Ep136: Art of Negotiation: How to Get What You're...

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2025/09/15

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. The art of negotiation is a critical skill that can significantly impact your career trajectory and compensation, requiring research, preparation, and understanding the psychology of the negotiation process. Mark shares insights on how to approach negotiation as a strategic process rather than a confrontational event, emphasizing the importance of knowing your value and understanding your employer's perspective. • Negotiation is a process o...

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S6 Ep.135: Two Jobs, One Paycheck- Exploiting Employees

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2025/09/04

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. The workplace landscape has fundamentally shifted, with a disturbing trend emerging across American businesses: employees are increasingly being forced to perform two full-time jobs while receiving just one paycheck. This exploitation operates under the seemingly innocuous phrase "adjusting duties," buried in employment contracts that courts have traditionally interpreted with alarming breadth. Recent research reveals the devastating human ...

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S6 Ep.134: Unpaid Overtime: The NYU Langone IT Staff...

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2025/08/28

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. This episode is part of my initiative to provide access to important court decisions impacting employees in an easy to understand conversational format using AI. The speakers in the episode are AI generated and frankly sound great to listen to. Enjoy! What happens when the line between your work and personal life blurs beyond recognition? Five IT professionals at NYU Langone Health System are taking a stand in a legal battl...

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S6: Ep133: The Hidden Dangers of Using AI to Predict...

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2025/08/20

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. Artificial intelligence has revolutionized how we approach many aspects of life, including legal analysis, but what happens when employees rely on AI to evaluate potential employment discrimination cases? This episode uncovers the dangerous pitfalls that can trap unwary workers seeking justice. The allure of immediate feedback from AI tools like ChatGPT has led many employees to trust these systems with complex legal analysis. Mark explains...

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S6: Ep132: Age Bias at IKEA? Brandon Paine v. IKEA...

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2025/08/14

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message. This episode is part of my initiative to provide access to important court decisions impacting employees in an easy to understand conversational format using AI. The speakers in the episode are AI generated and frankly sound great to listen to. Enjoy! What happens when one of the world's most recognizable retail brands faces serious allegations of systemic age discrimination? Our latest episode pulls back the curtain on the...

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