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...

Last year, the EEOC issued its long awaited Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisi...

Yesterday afternoon, the EEOC announced its long awaited, and, by employers, long dreaded, Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arre...

Consider the following examples, both of which come from harassment cases decided in the past two weeks by the Northern District of Ohio: ...

On last Sunday’s episode of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire , Chalky White, a jailed African-American bootlegger, comforted his wife with the followi...

Yesterday, I wrote about how far we’ve come since 1943. Today, I bring you another reminder of how far yet we have to go. The EEOC has a...

We are now nine years post-9/11. To say that relations between Americans and Muslim-Americans are poor is an understatement. Our country has...

A rejected applicant has filed a class action lawsuit against management consulting firm Accenture, claiming that it discriminates against m...

We are a few days past the 8th anniversary of what many consider to be the worst day in the history of our country. According to a recent su...

We’re well into week two of the swine flu, and this story continues to have legs. Now, the EEOC is offering its opinion on how employers can...

The EEOC announced that it settled a national origin discrimination claim against a California nursing home company for $450,000. The lawsu...

Don’t change your explanation about why an employee was fired mid-stream while in the midst of defending a discrimination claim. ...

From this morning's USA Today : The LPGA tour will use the next four months to create evaluation procedures for its new policy requ...

As a native of Philadelphia, nothing makes my mouth water more than a cheesesteak (please, please, don't call it a Philly cheesesteak, ...

A couple of weeks ago, the 6th Circuit held that where an adverse employment action occurs very close in time after an employer learns of a ...