DE Under 3: EEOC’s Transgender Guidance Blocked by Texas Federal District Court
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DE Under 3: Data Gathering & Data Delivery
DE Under 3: EEOC Studies Showing Online Mediation Preferred; Transgender Title VII Protections; May 2022 Employment Situation
DE Under 3: Agency Budget Requests, Transgender Day of Visibility traction, and the fall of Trump OFCCP’s “Four Pillars”
Looking back at 2021 and ahead to 2022
Helping the Transgender Community Through The Name Change Project with Samantha Rothaus of Davis+Gilbert: On Record PR
#WorkforceWednesday: SCOTUS Decision on LGBTQ Employees, EEOC on Older Workers Returning to Work - Employment Law This Week®
II-25 – Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Employers in 2018
Episode 25: EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum Part II: Other Emerging EEOC Trends + Takeaways
I-12: Update on the DOL's New OT Rules, and Part 2 of My Interview with Former EEOC General Counsel David Lopez
Employment Law This Week: Joint-Employer Guidance Rescinded, NYC’s “Fair Workweek” Bills, ADA and Gender Dysphoria, Philadelphia’s Salary History Law
Employment Law This Week: Wellness Program Regulations, Cumulative Liquidated Damages, ACA Transgender Discrimination Rules, Form I-9
Employment Law This Week: Top Issues of 2016 – DTSA, Non-Competes, Paid Sick Leave, Transgender Law, Overtime, NLRB Decisions
Employment Law This Week®: White House on Non-Competes, Transgender Bathrooms, Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces, Freelancer Wage Protection
Employment Law This Week®: Transgender Case, “Labor Peace” Agreements, EEOC’s Pay Data Proposal, Parental Leave Requests
LXBN This Week Ep. 2: EEOC on Criminal Records & Transgender Discrimination, BP Oil Spill Arrest, AZ Immigration Law at SCOTUS
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As the start of school quickly approaches for Georgia private K-12 schools, there’s a little more planning to do this year: getting up to speed on the state’s new gender identification requirements for interscholastic...more
If you haven’t read the recent press releases from the Department of Education reflecting their summer enforcement focus around Title IX, below we’ll dive into what happened this month. Penn’s agreement with the Office for...more
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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is reconsidering its prior decisions that had established a legal right for transgender students to access bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. The reconsideration is based on...more
A Pennsylvania federal district court held that a school district may have violated fundamental parental rights by not informing a parent of her child’s request to be considered transgender. In 2022, an eighth-grade...more
Many K-12 and institutes of higher education are concerned about the potential threat to their federal funding given recent changes to the way the government is interpreting existing federal law to achieve certain policy...more
On February 5, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports. This EO expresses strong disapproval of policies allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls’...more
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At least 22 states are suing the Biden administration over new Title IX rules set to take effect this summer. The lawsuits claim that the U.S. Department of Education’s new rules – which were released last month and include...more
A West Virginia law introduced as the "Save Women's Sports Act," which banned transgender athletes from competing on girls' and women's sports teams, was recently struck down by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. ...more
The Department of Education (DOE) is expected to issue two major amendments to Title IX regulations next month that could cause headaches for educational institutions with classes already in full swing. One rule will address...more
In a July 28, 2023 ruling, the Seventh Circuit has signaled that Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) seeking to enforce pronoun policies can expect to face increased scrutiny. Specifically, the Seventh Circuit vacated its...more
A Florida public school’s transgender bathroom ban was recently upheld by a federal appeals court, leading to a circuit split that may need to be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court. Specifically, in a 7-4 ruling, the 11th...more
On April 6, the Department of Education issued a notice of proposed rulemaking under Title IX, which would regulate how gender identity factors into athletics participation. The proposed rule would apply to students in K-12...more
As schools and institutions of higher education anticipate the release of new Title IX regulations this May, on Thursday, April 6, the U.S. Department of Education (the “Department”) released a new notice of proposed...more
In recent years, the legal rights of transgender students have been litigated in courts around the country. While court decisions have provided some guidance for school districts, many questions remain. This article addresses...more
We recently provided our predictions for what education employers could expect to see in the area of workplace law over the next year as part of our FP Forecast series – but we had too many insights to fit into that edition....more
Recently, the United States Federal District Court, Southern District of Indiana (Indianapolis Division) awarded summary judgment in favor of a public school district, dismissing a former teacher’s Title VII claim, 42 U.S.C....more
In a major win for transgender rights, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in favor a transgender teenager who wanted to use the boys’ bathroom at his former school, finding that the school district violated his...more
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The Missouri Supreme Court last week issued a pair of decisions highlighting the breadth of the state’s prohibition against sex discrimination. The decisions make clear that, although the Missouri Human Rights Act does not...more
In a 5 to 0 vote, the West Point Public Schools Board of Education terminated Peter Vlaming, a French teacher employed by the District for approximately seven years, for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred male...more
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