Veterans Day Tribute
CFPB's Focus on Student Loan Servicing: Insights from the Office of Servicemember Affairs Report — The Consumer Finance Podcast
DE Talk | Resiliency & Determination: The Military Spouse Employee Makeup
DE Under 3: An Explanation of the Current Federal Budget Bill Confusion
DE Under 3: U.S. GAO Report on Military Spouse Employment Focused on Challenges of Part-Time Work
DE Talk | A Focus On Veterans: Supporting Compliance, Recruitment, Candidate Experience & Beyond
DE Talk | Skilled, Vetted & Ready: DEIA at the Heart of Veteran & Military Spouse Hiring
Military Lending Act and Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Overview - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Supporting Our Veterans
Handling Appeals from Veterans Claims | Chris Attig | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Matt Reid on Compliance and the JAG Corps
Workplace Integration of Veterans: How to be an Ally to Our Nation’s Heroes
Leading in a Lonely World Podcast: Meet Richard Vaill, Advocate for Veterans
Highlighting API Contributions to the U.S. Military
Oklahoma USERRA Provides New Military Leave Provisions for Select Uniformed Services
Celebrating Veterans’ Advocacy with Ashley Gorbulja-Maldonado, Public Affairs Specialist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: On Record PR
2020 OFCCP Refresh and Reset
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 229: Combining Law School and Military Service (w/guest Steven Arango)
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've been asking this a lot lately. President Trump’s first week of his second term in office was action-packed, as I posted last week. If you thought things would slow down for Week 2, you were mistaken. You may remember...more
On January 20th, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Trust to the Federal Government.” The executive order included provisions for the...more
In Porter v. Trans State Holdings, Inc., No. 1:23-CV-00263 (D. Colo. Nov. 7, 2024), a federal district court dismissed a Naval Reserve pilot’s Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) lawsuit...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions on Tuesday, April 16: Rudisill v. McDonough, No. 22-888: This case concerns the interaction between two federal statutes providing up to 36 months of...more
Manufacturers rely on consistent employee attendance to operate production lines and meet critical delivery deadlines to customers. The best-laid production plans can be disrupted by employee absences leaving a gap in the...more
Religious Exemption to States' Mandatory Vaccination Statute Not Necessary In Does 1-6 v. Mills, No. 1:21-cv-00242, 2021 WL 4783626 (D. Me. Oct. 13, 2021), the court denied injunctive relief to plaintiff healthcare workers...more
Since inauguration, the Biden Administration has used Executive Orders, guidance and regulations, and cabinet nominations to make clear that LGBTQ+ protections are a top policy priority. In the January 26, 2021, press...more
In a recent claim filed against one of our clients, an aggrieved employee alleged that a manager who was a former military officer had a preference for hiring and promoting people with military experience. The employee in...more
This question is the most recent culmination of a long line of military-related issues with the LGBT community that far pre-date the Trump Administration. Historically, the military took the position that transgender people...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The first eight months of the new administration signals a retrenchment on the executive branch’s view of legal protections due LGBT individuals, including in employment....more
On July 26, 2017, President Trump announced via Twitter that the military, arguably the country’s largest employer, will no longer allow transgender people to serve, thus breaking from the Obama Administration’s lift of the...more