On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held in Oldham v. Pennsylvania State Univ., No. 22-2056 (3d Cir. May 29, 2025) that Title IX may allow for claims by non-students and non-employees. In the...more
6/10/2025
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Educational Institutions ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Retaliation ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Title IX ,
Universities
Labor Employment Policy Highlights of 2022. This past term saw more legislation pass through congressional chambers at a more efficient clip than we have seen in quite some time. That does not mean that federal agencies were...more
1/16/2023
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Employee Benefits ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Labor Reform ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (“PUMP Act”) ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Wage and Hour
New ESG Final Rule, Finally. About a year ago, in this very space, we discussed the Department of Labor’s proposed rule to permit managers of employee benefits plans under ERISA to consider environmental, social, and...more
Midterm Dust Finally Settles (For The Most Part). What do we know as of the publication of this newsletter? First, the results were not close to as red as most historians ventured, but republicans were still able to flip...more
House Passes Bill To Extend Recent Prohibition On Arbitration Of Sexual Harassment. While the 50-50 partisan split in the Senate has caused an uneven legislative road since the onset of the Biden Administration, legislation...more
Senate Passes The “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021”; Biden Signature Imminent. As Seyfarth noted in this legal update, the central thrust of the measure is to permit persons...more
A Tribute To The Late, Incomparably Great, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Exactly two weeks to the day, the Country began collective mourning over the loss of one of the greatest jurisprudential minds in a century. Justice...more
10/5/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Dukes v Wal-Mart ,
Epic Systems Corp v Lewis ,
Financial Stimulus ,
Gig Economy ,
Government Shutdown ,
Governor Newsom ,
H-1B ,
H-2B ,
Independent Contractors ,
Infectious Diseases ,
J-1 Visas ,
L-1 Visas ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Paid Leave ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Ruth Bader Ginsberg ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration ,
Vance v. Ball State University ,
Visas ,
Women in the Law
Seyfarth Synopsis: Consistent with Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published recommendations for...more
10/1/2020
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Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Department of Education ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Educational Institutions ,
Health Care Providers ,
OCR ,
Section 1557 ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Title IX