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Showing posts with label race discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race discrimination. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

DOJ's attack on disparate impact gets Title VII exactly backwards

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The Department of Justice just issued a legal opinion claiming that disparate impact liability is unconstitutional because it supposedly ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026

🎶 With my mind on my Title VII and Title VII on my mind. 🎶

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Barbie Bassett, a longtime white news anchor for WLBT, lost her job after two on-air comments her employer deemed racially offensive. First,...
Monday, May 11, 2026

The EEOC just gave employers an (inadvertent) roadmap on how to legally implement a DEI program

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The EEOC thinks it just filed a blockbuster anti-DEI lawsuit against The New York Times. What it actually filed is a pretty good roadmap for...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

The 11th Circuit just lowered the bar on racial harassment

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A noose. A blackface doll. Hung at a Black employee's desk. If you're thinking, "that's a textbook hostile work environment...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Winning a lawsuit is not the proper measurement for the quality of your workplace

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"Lincoln may have freed the slaves, but I'm keeping you." That's what a Black legal assistant claims a law firm partner to...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Culture is what you tolerate

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We tell ourselves a comforting lie about bad behavior around sports. It's just passion. Just rivalry. Just trash talk. Until it's ra...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Federal court provides road map for lawful DEI programs

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I keep getting asked how employers can legally maintain DEI programs in today's political climate. A federal judge just answered that qu...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Jury tags SHRM for $11.5 million in discrimination lawsuit

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$11.5 million! That's the number a jury needed to send a very loud, very clear message to the Society for Human Resource Management — th...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Civil-rights enforcement isn't a culture-war trophy

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The Wall Street Journal just profiled EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas under the headline "Trump's DEI Slayer Is Just Getting Started....
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

A noose, a workplace, and a court that finally got it right

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Imagine this. It's your employee's second day on the job. He climb into the cab of truck you've assigned him assigned to operate...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Let's count the ways Pete Hegseth's speech would get your company sued

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If Pete Hegseth were your CEO, I'd be drafting your EEOC position statement tomorrow. You're not running the Department of War (née ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Monkey see; monkey not do

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Chalk one up to common-sense — the 6th Circuit just held that the word "monkey," when directed at a Black employee, constitutes a...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Waxing philosophical: workplace speech vs. anti-discrimination law

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Federal anti-discrimination laws protect people, not the content of their speech. Amy Wax, a Penn law professor (who, frankly, should have k...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Damage caps for discrimination claims don't work

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$75,000. That’s what Morton Salt just paid to settle a lawsuit brought by the EEOC. The agency alleged that Morton Salt discriminated again...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Yes, segregation is still illegal, and also amoral

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Image via wiki commons, cc license I can't believe I have to say this in 2025, but here we are … it's illegal and amoral to have rac...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

The attack on DEI does not mean employers must or should eliminate anti-harassment training

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Even as some push back forcefully against DEI workplace initiatives, courts are pushing back even harder. Consider these excerpts from Dieme...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

How to respond to the Justice Department's DEI hitlist

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"The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division will investigate, eliminate, and penalize illegal DEI and DEIA preferences, mand...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

What hiring and employment look like without DEI

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What does a country without DEI look like? Some people say that's what they want. No more diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives i...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Is Trump coming after Title VII next?

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"Dad, did Trump just get rid of workplace discrimination laws?" That's the question my daughter asked me yesterday. She was re...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Neurodivergence is not an excuse for racism

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"He's on the spectrum" is not an excuse for racism. I've seen more than one person attempt to justify Elon Musk's Nazi...