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Showing posts with label EEOC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EEOC. Show all posts
Monday, July 19, 2021

An adverse jury verdict is just a number on a piece of paper

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Late last week, a federal jury tagged Walmart with a verdict totaling more than $125 million in a disability discrimination lawsuit the EEOC...
Monday, January 11, 2021

“Beware systemic discrimination,” says EEOC to employers

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Systemic discrimination has multiple meanings, according to the EEOC: A "pattern or practice, policy, and/or class cases where the disc...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Frivolous litigation has a price … sometimes a big price

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In 2005, Monika Starke filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC alleging that her employer, CRST Van Expedited, Inc., subjected her to...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

New EEOC case is a not-so-subtle reminder that we still have a lot of work to do to improve race relations

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The allegations in this case —which the EEOC just filed against a Louisiana river transporter—remind us that while race relations have imp...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

6th Circuit holds that an employee cannot contractually shorten Title VII’s statute of limitations

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In Thurman v. Daimler Chrysler , the 6th Circuit agreed that the following agreement between an employer and an employee shortening the ti...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

This is what sex discrimination will look like if the Department of Justice gets its wish to legalize sex stereotyping

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Last week the Department of Justice (on behalf of its client, the EEOC), filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to conclude that “s ex st...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

SCOTUS decides whether Title VII’s charge-filing precondition to suit is jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional

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If the U.S. Supreme Court decided an employment case, I’m contractually obligated to blog about it. Yet,  Ford Bend County, Texas v. Davi...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

The three things you need to know from the EEOC's 2018 charge data

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Yesterday, the EEOC released its charge statistics for 2018 . There are three big things you need to know.
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Compliance-by-carrot trumps compliance-by-stick

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Democratic administrations are about enforcement. Republican administrations are about education. The endgame is still enforcement, but e...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Temporary employees have permanent legal rights

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Temporary employees do not leave their legal rights at your door. In fact, they enjoy the same rights as your permanent employees. Conside...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

As our workforce ages, age discrimination is only going to worsen

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Happy Golden Birthday, Age Discrimination in Employment Act. On June 13, 2018, the ADEA turned 50. To commemorate this milestone, the EE...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

9.8 million reasons to consider transferring a disabled employee to a vacant position

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Photo by Taber Andrew Bain Licensed via Creative Commons  Earlier this month, American Airlines agreed to pay $9.8 million to settle a...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Dads are parents, too — baby bonding and sex discrimination

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Should new dad’s receive the same amount of time off from work to bond with their newly born child as do women? That is the question at th...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Letter to employees during EEOC investigation may violate discrimination laws

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Suppose an employee files an EEOC charge of discrimination against you. And, further suppose that during the investigation, you receive a...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

6th Circuit grants EEOC broad subpoena powers

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The Witch: I’m not a witch! I’m not a witch! Sir Bedevere: But you are dressed as one The Witch: *They* dressed me up like this! Cro...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Will new EEOC Chair usher in sweeping changes?

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With a change in administrations comes a change at the head of various federal agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commi...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Mandatory flu shots cost employer bigly

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You may recall that in September I reported on a lawsuit the EEOC filed against a Pennsylvania hospital, alleging that it unlawfully fire...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

When a self-fondling supervisor earns the nickname “Mr. Bojangles,” it’s not going to end well

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The EEOC reports that it has sued Goodwill Industries of the East Bay Area for sexual harassment and disability discrimination, following...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

“Perceived” national origin discrimination may not be illegal, but…

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Lost in the maelstrom of the last week’s FLSA overtime rule injunction was the news that the EEOC issued updated enforcement guidance on ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Federal court recognizes LGBT employment discrimination as illegal under Title VII

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It’s been more than a year since the EEOC first announced that it would accept LGBT-discrimination charges as sex-discrimination charges ...