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The Journey of Litigation
The Labor Law Insider: How Arbitrations Help Preserve Labor-Management Peace, Part I
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Handling References and Referrals While Safeguarding Your Business
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The Changing Landscape of EEOC Enforcement and Disparate Impact
Our employment law update for August covers a case about the iniquity exception to legal privilege, a whistleblowing case involving a long-delayed judgment and third party reports, and a case on whether discriminatory actions...more
On May 15, 2025, a District Court struck portions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) 2024 guidance pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity under Title VII....more
Don't expect the EEOC to appeal. In April 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace. The Enforcement Guidance addressed, among other things, harassment...more
Within the last two months, both the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the armed services have followed Trump Administration directives to narrow or eliminate protections for transgender individuals....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
On November 7. 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to review a case by a Georgia fire chief alleging she was discharged for being transgender in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the...more
I have written many, many, many, many times about the transgender funeral director who was terminated from her job after she told the owner that she would begin presenting as a female. The Equal Employment Opportunity...more
In a landmark ruling, a Beijing court ruled in favor of a transgender employee against her employer, a Chinese e-commerce company, interpreting China’s anti-discrimination laws to include protection based on sexual...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The third key trend from our 16th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report involves governmental enforcement litigation, including an overview of priorities and filings by the EEOC, the U.S....more
Leaked Legal Advice Protected Under Privilege, Court of Appeal Holds - Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency - On October 22, 2019, the UK Court of Appeal held that a leaked email, in which in-house...more
Taking a three-year look back at the Supreme Court’s workplace law decisions gives you the sense that the exciting cases only come down every other year. In the ho-hum term that ended in 2017, the Court handled relatively...more
Earlier today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted review of a triad of cases addressing whether Title VII, the federal statute prohibiting certain types of discrimination in employment, prohibits discrimination...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s next term will likely have a significant impact on employers. On April 22, 2019, the Court announced that it is taking up the hot-button issue of whether federal laws that ban discrimination in...more
In what appears to be the first time a federal appeals court has extended the nation’s main federal employment discrimination statute to cover transgender and transitioning employees, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals...more
LGBTQ workplace rights is perhaps the most rapidly evolving area in employment law. On October 4, 2017, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally weighed in on the topic. He issued a memorandum to all federal...more
This Annual Report on EEOC Developments—Fiscal Year 2016 (hereafter “Report”), our sixth annual Report, is designed as a comprehensive guide to significant EEOC developments over the past fiscal year. The Report does not...more