White Americans, what? Nothing better to do? Why don't you kick yourself out? You’re an immigrant too! – Jack White, Icky Thump (2007) T...

The stats are jarring, disturbing, and scary. During the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been nearly 3,800 reported anti-Asia...

I fully embrace the irony of a local news broadcast holding me  out as the expert on hair discrimination. 👨🏻‍🦲 Irony notwithstanding, h...

Last week, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested nearly 700 immigrants as part of a series of raids at work-sites through...

White Americans, what? Nothing better to do? Why don't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant too! – White Stripes, Icky...

Photo by Luke Braswell on Unsplash We’ve all done a lot of talking over the past six months about sexual harassment. We should not forg...

Last week, President Trump signed his “ Buy American, Hire American “ Executive Order. The EO encourages American businesses to buy American...

I’ve had an internal debate all weekend long over whether I should blog about Trump’s executive order that that bans immigration from sev...

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

Last week, Steven Colbert conducted a mock job interview for President Obama . During the course of the interview, he asked the President qu...

I had a post prepared in my brain about the EEOC’s recently published proposed Enforcement Guidance on National Origin Discrimination . An...

Photo by Jon Hyman, 8/6/15 What happened Friday evening in France is unfathomable. Except, really, it isn’t. We experienced it 15 years...

It’s been nearly 8(!) years since I first wrote about the legality of English-only workplace rules . If you scan the archives, all of my cov...

According to an EEOC press release , a Wyoming federal judge has approved a $1.2 million settlement with three well-servicing companies on b...

The EEOC yesterday announced that it has filed a lawsuit against a Wisconsin metal and plastic products manufacturer, claiming that it fire...

Does a policy that prohibits employees from wearing dreadlocks discriminate against African-Americans? According to one federal court, in EE...

Have you seen the story about the employee at an Ephrata, Washington, Burger King, fired for posting, “Now Hiring Must Be Mexican” on the s...

According to The Huffington Post , a group of Hispanic employees is suing Target for national origin discrimination. Their evidence—an inter...

USA Today reports that Whole Foods has suspended two employees for allegedly speaking Spanish to each other on the job. For its part, Whole...

One of the key analyses in any discrimination lawsuit is whether the plaintiff is “similarly situated” to those whom he or she claims the em...