The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled this week that severe obesity is not a "disability" within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act unless it is caused by a physiological disorder....more
The 9/30 deadline is still on.
Blogging last month about the court orders directing the EEOC to gather compensation information in EEO-1 reports, and the government's subsequent appeal, I had speculated that the government...more
What the Supreme Court's decision in Fort Bend really means.
As you may have heard, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a plaintiff to proceed with a Title VII religious discrimination lawsuit even though she didn't file a...more
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Our blog is non-partisan, but I must speak out!
Mind you, I'm not recommending that you vote for or against any particular presidential candidate.
BUT . . .
Sen. Kamala Harris's (D-Calif.) idea to require employers with...more
It's spring, and a young person's fancy turns to . . .
. . . why, the federal regulatory agenda! What else?
Here are the items that I think will be of most interest to our readers....more
EEOC gets its quorum back, but OSHA loses.
I have good news and bad news.
Which do you want first?
Oh, let's start with the good....more
Hallelujah!
Today the Senate confirmed Janet Dhillon by a 50-43 vote to become the new chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her term will expire July 1, 2022....more
We know the EEOC has appealed. What does that mean for employers?
As I noted on Friday night, the Office of Management and Budget and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission appealed the two court orders regarding EEO-1...more
So exciting!
According to today's Politico's Morning Shift, it appears that President Trump's nominee for Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will finally get a confirmation vote in the Senate next week....more
Court says no, in one of the weirdest cases ever.
In January, I blogged about the very strange case of O'Brien v. Industrial Service Solutions.
The plaintiff was a Human Resources Manager who saw a transgender woman in the...more
Employers, start hustling.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says that it has decided to require employers to submit 2018 and 2017 compensation data with their EEO-1 Reports, which are due September 30....more
The following was posted today.
Notice of Immediate Reinstatement of Revised EEO-1: Pay Data Collection-
EEO-1 filers should begin preparing to submit Component 2 data for calendar year 2018 by September 30, 2019, in...more
The last chapter, subject to the government's right to appeal.
Today Judge Tanya Chutkan reportedly issued her order in National Women's Law Center v. Office of Management and Budget (the EEO-1 compensation data case)....more
The never-ending story.
There is a new chapter in the continuing story of whether employers will have to report compensation data this year on their EEO-1 reports....more
Most charges were down, but sex harassment, LGBT charges were up.
On Wednesday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its charge-filing statistics for fiscal year 2018, which ran from October 1, 2017, through...more
Start gathering that comp data, if you haven't already.
I have written here and here about the court order directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to require employers to submit compensation data with their...more
Better start gathering that 2018 pay data, just in case.
So much has been happening so fast with this EEO-1 pay survey controversy that I decided to wait until the latter part of the week in the hopes that it would sort...more
I love my readers!
Week before last, I published a blog post about the proposed regulations recently issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. For the most part, I thought they were unremarkable, but there...more
A federal judge in the District of Columbia has ordered that the pay data collection component of EEO-1 reports, which never took effect, be restored. The order was issued yesterday, and we don't yet know what it will mean...more
But it ain't over yet.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Welfare Committee has voted along party lines to advance some key nominees of President Trump to a full Senate vote....more
I see some bombs tucked away in there.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued proposed regulations that were published in today's Federal Register....more
Thanks, shutdown!
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced that employers will have a two-month extension of the deadline to submit their EEO-1 workforce data for 2018....more
No more excuses!
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which was closed during the federal government shutdown, reopened on Monday. However, its Respondent Portal (where employers upload their responses and enter...more
Can you occasionally skip the EEOC and go straight to court if there's a really good reason?
The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to decide whether to review the LGBT cases we've had our eye on, or the salary history case....more
Two for the EEOC, three for the DOL, and none for the NLRB.
For the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Janet Dhillon has been renominated as chair, and Sharon Fast Gustafson has been renominated as General Counsel....more