Investigations, Retaliation, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Workplace Investigations – One Size Does Not Fit All

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/4/2025

Over the last few years, employers have faced new and expanded obligations under state and federal employment laws relating to prohibition of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in the workplace. These changes stem...more

Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations

Woods Rogers on 3/11/2025

Nothing catches people’s attention like a high-profile, drama-filled lawsuit. Not every employer will deal with a Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni-level feud, but discrimination and harassment lawsuits arise in all types of work...more

EEOC Sues Shimmick Corporation for Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/26/2024

Federal Agency Charges Construction Company Forced Employee to Resign Because She Participated in an Investigation and Opposed Sex Discrimination - CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Shimmick Corporation, doing business as Shimmick...more

Retaliation: The most successful discrimination claim

McAfee & Taft on 9/26/2023

A claim of retaliation can be successful even when the original claim of discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information fails to establish a violation of law....more

EEOC and US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division Partner to Enhance Enforcement

ArentFox Schiff on 9/25/2023

Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to encourage enhanced law enforcement and greater...more

Attendance Policies, ADA May Be In EEOC's Crosshairs

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/14/2023

No-fault attendance policies may be on a watchlist for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A recent matter before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, EEOC v. Eberspaecher North America Inc.,...more

Lincoln Cemetery Sued by EEOC for Retaliation

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 8/23/2017

Company Terminated a 31-Year Veteran Employee After She Participated in a Discrimination Investigation, Federal Agency Charges - ATLANTA - Lincoln Cemetery, Inc., an Atlanta corporation specializing in interment...more

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