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Disparate Impact & Enforcement Rollbacks: What’s the Tea in L&E?
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(Podcast) California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
New Executive Order Targets Disparate Impact Claims Nationwide - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
The Changing Landscape of EEOC Enforcement and Disparate Impact
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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) Update
Hindsight is 20-20. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect in June 2023, requires reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and “related medical conditions.” The statute gave authority to the U.S....more
In this episode of The Employment Law Counselor, in collaboration with the Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Victoria Fuller, Partner and Co-Chair of Labor and Employment Practice Group, and Laura Corvo, Counsel,...more
Accommodate, accommodate, accommodate! I started practicing law two years before Congress enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), and four years before it took effect (1992 for larger employers, 1994 for smaller...more
In another departure from regulations and guidance issued during the Biden administration, in May, a federal judge in Louisiana found that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had exceeded its statutory...more
The City of Minneapolis will soon be one of the few jurisdictions in the country that prohibit discrimination based on height, weight, and criminal history. On May 5, 2025, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey approved amendments to...more
Happy Father's Day weekend, y'all! How much do you know about dads in the workplace in our modern era? Take our quiz and find out! Since today is Friday the 13th, I’m going to make this quiz a hard one. But, as always, the...more
On May 21, 2025, Judge David C. Joseph of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a ruling vacating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s final rule under the 2022 Pregnant Workers...more
As everyone in Human Resources knows by now, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) requires employers to reasonably accommodate employees because of pregnancy and conditions related to pregnancy. In case you missed it, we...more
Performance conversations can quickly become legal minefields when an employee is pregnant, has a disability, or has requested protected leave. Too often, well-meaning employers delay intervention, mishandle documentation, or...more
Join John Connell and Natalie Phillips as they discuss the recent legal challenges to the PWFA and discuss potential outcomes. They will also revisit the PWFA as it currently stands and provide an overview of what employers...more
In 2023, Congress passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), a law aimed at ensuring fair treatment for workers who are affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. The Equal Employment Opportunity...more
A federal appeals court on February 20, 2025, cleared the path for a lawsuit seeking to block Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) protections for pregnant workers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit...more
Recent executive orders have caused the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to abandon litigation and guidance on LGBTQ+ protections and other areas that were priorities during the Biden administration....more
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which was passed in December 2022, requires a covered employer to provide reasonable accommodations for a qualified employee’s or applicant’s known limitations related to “pregnancy,...more
Seventeen Republican-led states can continue their lawsuit challenging parts of the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently ruled the states have standing...more
I reported a few weeks ago that President Trump fired two Democratic Commissioners of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (former Chair Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels). He appointed Commissioner Andrea Lucas...more
For many years, employers have been operating within the confines of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), and the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act (“WFEA”) when a pregnant employee...more
On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump named Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas as Acting Chair of the EEOC. Since joining the commission in 2020, Lucas has been a strong advocate for addressing the evolving landscape of...more
Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), the agency that administers and enforces federal workplace civil rights law, advanced numerous employee-friendly initiatives, with a...more
The entertainment industry, often credited for sparking the cultural “#MeToo” movement, is yet again faced with allegations of sexual harassment, this time from “It Ends With Us” star Blake Lively. On December 31, 2024,...more
On June 27, 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), a federal law enforced by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), went into effect. The PWFA mandates that employers with at least 15 employees, along...more
Both the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) play a crucial role in supporting pregnant employees, each offering unique protections. Understanding these differences is key to creating...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released a “fact sheet” concerning employer mandates that require employees to use wearable technologies. According to the EEOC, such requirements could violate...more
WASHINGTON – A new fact sheet titled “Wearables in the Workplace: The Use of Wearables and Other Monitoring Technology Under Federal Employment Discrimination Laws,” released today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...more
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