Employer Liability Issues, Religious Discrimination, Best Practices

[Webinar] Labor & Employment Law Update: 2025 Recap and Insights for 2026 - September 17th, 9:00 am - 11:30 am ET

Foster Swift Collins & Smith on 9/3/2025

It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more

EEOC’s Proposed Updates To Religious Discrimination Guidance Now Open For Public Comment

Fox Rothschild LLP on 11/24/2020

On November 9, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) voted 3-2 to release a proposed update to Section 12 of the EEOC Compliance Manual addressing religious discrimination. Section 12 of the...more

New Jersey Supreme Court Clarifies Procedures For Implementing Employee Arbitration Agreements

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 8/20/2020

This week, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision clarifying the steps that employers must take to implement arbitration agreements with current employees, even absent affirmative employee consent. Our firm appeared...more

[Webinar] Balancing Religious Accommodation Challenges and Patient Safety Concerns - October 29th, 2:00 pm ET

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/17/2019

Responding to employees’ disability-based accommodation requests has become second nature for healthcare institutions. But, what about requests for religious accommodations? In this webinar, Jackson Lewis P.C. attorneys...more

12 Days of HR: Oh Come All Ye Faithful—Maintaining an Inclusive Workplace Around the Holidays

Verrill on 12/14/2018

There’s so much to celebrate at the end of the year, and while it often feels like Christmas steals the spotlight, it’s likely that some of your employees also observe Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and other celebrations throughout the...more

8th Circuit Agrees, Request For Religious Accommodation Is Not Opposition Conduct

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/29/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: The 8th Circuit recently held that while a request for a religious accommodation may qualify as a protected activity, it is not necessarily “oppositional” so as to give rise to an opposition-clause...more

K&L Gates Triage: Avoiding the Risks Associated with Mandatory Vaccination Programs

K&L Gates LLP on 8/28/2017

This episode discusses the risks associated with mandatory employee vaccination programs and practical tips for health care entities on how to minimize these risks from an employment law perspective. In particular, this...more

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