Disparate Impact & Enforcement Rollbacks: What’s the Tea in L&E?
Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: The False Claims Act
#WorkforceWednesday®: New DOL Leadership, NLRB Quorum, EEOC Enforcement Priorities - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday®: How Will Trump’s Federal Changes Impact Employers? - Employment Law This Week®
Building Bridges – Rev. Al Sharpton’s Blueprint for Harlem’s Museum of Civil Rights
#WorkforceWednesday® - Key SCOTUS Decisions This Term for Employers - Employment Law This Week®
Webinar: Is Your DEI Policy Setting You Up for a Lawsuit?
DE Under 3: Title VII Prohibits Discriminatory Job Transfers Even Without Significant Harm, U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Ruled
DE Under 3: EEOC Consent Decree Illustrated Enforcement Stance Regarding Natural Hair Texture & Race Discrimination
The Burr Broadcast: EEOC Strategic Enforcement Plan
#WorkforceWednesday: EEOC Enforcement Plan, California Expands Paid Sick Leave, and Strikes Across the Country - Employment Law This Week®
DE Under 3: U.S. EEOC Announced Year-End Litigation Round-Up for Fiscal Year 2023
#WorkforceWednesday: The Ripple Effect of the Supreme Court’s SFFA Ruling for Diversity in the Workplace - Employment Law This Week®
Employment Law Now VII-134-Panel Discussion on Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling and the Impact on Employer DEI Programs
DE Under 3: Title VII Actionable Adverse Employment Actions Not Limited to Only “Ultimate” Employment Decisions
Supreme Court Miniseries: Religious Accommodation at Work
Employment Law Now VII-133 - Hot Summer Employment Law Developments
#WorkforceWednesday: SCOTUS Introduces Heightened Standard for Religious Accommodation, Rules Against Affirmative Action, Protects “Expressive” Services - Employment Law This Week®
Business Better Podcast Episode: Is DEI at Risk? Considerations on the US Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action Programs
DE Under 3: New Controversial Proposed Rule Affecting Title VII
On June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted, leaving unresolved a significant question regarding class-action certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23. The question...more
Highlights from this issue include cases such as Pro Se Civil Rights Class Actions. The Seventh Circuit affirmed that a pro se prisoner cannot adequately represent a class, and more....more
Federal Agency Charges Manager of Pharmacy Chain Subjected Employee to Sexual Harassment, Forcing Her to Resign - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Farmacias Carimas, a retail pharmacy chain, violated federal law when its manager...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a contest providing venture-capital funding only to Black female applicants is substantially likely to violate section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which...more
On Tuesday, December 13, 2022 to the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB”) issued a decision that could have profound effect on employers in all industries, regardless if they have a union. In Thrryv, Inc., the NLRB ruled...more
The Supreme Court of the United States recently held in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C., 142 S. Ct. 1562 (2022), that damages for emotional distress are not recoverable in actions seeking to enforce the...more
Company Failed to Stop the Rampant Sexual Harassment of Female Employees, Federal Agency Charges - ATLANTA – Mediacom Communications Corp., a nationwide provider of telecommunications services, will pay $175,000 and...more
Employer Failed to Address Racially Hostile Work Environment, Federal Agency Charged - NEW YORK, N.Y. - On The Border Acquisitions, LLC, doing business as On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina (OTB), will pay $100,000...more
Credle Enterprises to Pay $340,000 to Resolve Claims of Physical and Verbal Harassment of Female Employees - DALLAS - Credle Enterprises, LLC, doing business as McDonald's in the Texas panhandle, will pay $340,000 and...more
Retirement Community Failed to Hire Pregnant Woman, Federal Agency Charges - TAMPA - Excel Hospitality Group LLC d/b/a Regency Park Assisted Living & Memorial Care, an assisted living facility in Eustis, Florida, violated...more
The #MeToo movement has brought public awareness to claims concerning pay disparity based on gender. As more and more women bring equal pay claims and enter into hefty settlements, the general public begins to internalize the...more
Software Company Fired Employee for Perceived Disability, Federal Agency Charged - RALEIGH, N.C. - SoftPro, LLC, a Delaware software company headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., will pay $80,000 and provide other relief to...more
Hospital Unlawfully Refused Reasonable Accommodation for Religious Belief and Rescinded Job Offer, Federal Agency Charged - DETROIT - Memorial Healthcare, which operates a hospital in Owosso, Mich., will pay $74,418 and...more
Gold Mine Refused to Promote Female Miner Then Retaliated When She Complained, Federal Agency Charged - FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Alaska-based Northern Star (Pogo) LLC, formerly known as Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, LLC, will...more
Employer Allowed Racially Hostile Work Environment and Punished employees for Complaining, Federal Agency Charged - NEW YORK - A & F Fire Protection Co., Inc., a fire sprinkler and fire standpipe contractor located in...more
Q. An employee has requested that the company give her an accommodation due to a religious practice I have never heard of. Do we have to comply with this request? A. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects...more
Company Discharged Employee Because She Requested Religious Accommodation, Federal Agency Charged - DETROIT - A Michigan-based franchisee of Tim Hortons Cafe and Bake Shop will pay $22,500 to settle a religious...more
Senior Management Failed to Take Action on Complaints Involving Noose, KKK Hood, Racist Epithets and Jokes at Work, Federal Agency Charged - MINNEAPOLIS - Sealy of Minnesota has agreed to pay $175,000 to resolve a charge...more
Black Employee Subjected to Racial Epithets Almost Daily, Federal Agency Charges - MOUNT AIRY, N.C. - Hiatt & Mason Enterprises, Inc., a structural steel erection services company, violated federal law when it subjected...more
Thank you, Secretary Kerry. Thanks to members of the Advisory Council, to the Presidential Award recipients, and to everyone in the room for your leadership on this issue. When workers are trafficked, they may also be...more
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has moved to intervene in Savage et al. v. Pocomoke City et al., a private lawsuit alleging race discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights...more
We all think of December as the season of giving. Unfortunately, prevailing defendants in Title VII cases don’t always feel that way. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prevailing plaintiffs enjoy compensatory...more