In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the standards for balancing an employee’s religious accommodation request against the potential undue hardship that such a request may impose...more
5/23/2023
/ Appeals ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Petition For Rehearing ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
School Districts ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Undue Hardship
On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Fort Bend County v. Davis that Title VII’s administrative exhaustion requirement is a claims-processing requirement, not a jurisdictional requirement, which means...more
7/1/2019
/ Affirmative Defenses ,
Amended Complaints ,
Appeals ,
Charge-Filing Preconditions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Exhaustion Doctrine ,
Fort Bend County Texas v Davis ,
Jurisdictional Requirements ,
Mandatory Claim-Processing Rules ,
SCOTUS ,
Time-Barred Claims ,
Title VII ,
Waiver Rule
Recent federal court decisions serve as a timely reminder of an employer’s obligations under Title VII to protect employees from all unlawful harassment in the workplace, even if that harassment is perpetrated by someone...more