Part of our standard advice to nearly every client is "document, document, document." Typically, robust and timely documentation ensures that an employer has strong evidence of its legitimate rationale for making employment...more
1/24/2025
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Documentation ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
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Human Resources Professionals ,
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On April 29, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new enforcement guidance on harassment in the workplace. The guidance is the result of approximately seven years of effort and replaces...more
As many employers await the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s impending vaccination rule, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission quietly released new guidance regarding religious objections to mandatory...more
By virtue of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status. On June 15,...more
7/16/2021
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In a pair of notable new lawsuits, employees of both public and private employers have filed legal challenges to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies. First, on April 16, 2021, in the Middle District of North Carolina, a...more
On May 13, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control issued consequential, and largely unexpected, guidance stating that “fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where...more
5/21/2021
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On February 1, a group of organizations representing national employers, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sent a letter to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requesting that it “quickly issue guidance...more
On December 16, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its running COVID-19 guidance to include critical new information about the intersection of equal employment laws and the COVID-19 vaccine. Most...more
On Tuesday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued an update to its running guidance titled “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws.” The updates address...more
On May 7, the EEOC posted new guidance about how to handle return to work for an employee known to be in a COVID-19 “high risk” category.
First, if the employee does not request a reasonable accommodation, then the ADA...more
Today social media platforms, including Facebook and LinkedIn, allow employers to target their job listings based on various characteristics of the users they wish to reach. As a result, employers can theoretically identify...more
1/3/2020
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