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Showing posts with label EEOC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EEOC. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Why?

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"Jon, why do you post all this stuff about awful things employers do? Aren't you a management-side lawyer and advocate?" Here&...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

It was the best of opinions; it was the worst of opinions…

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Today, the EEOC's  regulations interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act  go into effect. Thanks to two very recent federal court o...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Sexual harassment, bathroom, and pronouns

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"Sex-based harassment includes harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, including … repeated and intentional use of a...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

EEOC makes is clear that the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act covers unpaid time off for abortions

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From this point forward, if an employee needs an unpaid leave of absence to obtain and recover from an abortion, you better give it her. I r...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

President Biden’s proposed 2025 federal budget offers a lot for employers to chew on

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If you want to learn about a government's priorities, trace the money.  President Biden's proposed federal budget for FY 2025 contai...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

EEOC issues its final updates to its Covid-19 guidance

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With the Covid-19 National and Public Health Emergencies now concluded, the EEOC just published what should be its final updates to its COVI...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

An employee may not have a right to receive a reasonable accommodation, but they at least have a right to conversation about it

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The EEOC has sued Mercy Health St. Mary's for religious discrimination, claiming that it violated Title VII by rescinding a job offer to...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Correlation isn’t necessarily causation … except when it is

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According to a recently filed EEOC lawsuit , Dollar General violated Title VII by firing a sales employee because of her pregnancy. More to ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Abortion travel benefits don’t discriminate against non-abortion-seeking pregnant workers

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Within hours of the Supreme Court releasing its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization  and reversing Roe v. Wad e, DICK...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

“Abortion discrimination” = illegal pregnancy discrimination … even after Dobbs

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Is it legal to fire an employee who has an abortion? This is question that a lot of employers and employees will now be asking in light of t...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The customer isn’t always right, especially when the customer wants you to discriminate

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"I'm afraid we can't hire you because you won't mix well with our customers." That's what the EEOC alleges a north...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Coronavirus Update 10-28-2021: EEOC publishes its own internal Religious Accommodation Request form

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"Jon, we have so many employees asking us for religious accommodations from our workplace Covid rules, including our vaccine mandate. ...
Monday, July 19, 2021

An adverse jury verdict is just a number on a piece of paper

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Late last week, a federal jury tagged Walmart with a verdict totaling more than $125 million in a disability discrimination lawsuit the EEOC...
Monday, January 11, 2021

“Beware systemic discrimination,” says EEOC to employers

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Systemic discrimination has multiple meanings, according to the EEOC: A "pattern or practice, policy, and/or class cases where the disc...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Frivolous litigation has a price … sometimes a big price

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In 2005, Monika Starke filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC alleging that her employer, CRST Van Expedited, Inc., subjected her to...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

New EEOC case is a not-so-subtle reminder that we still have a lot of work to do to improve race relations

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The allegations in this case —which the EEOC just filed against a Louisiana river transporter—remind us that while race relations have imp...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

6th Circuit holds that an employee cannot contractually shorten Title VII’s statute of limitations

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In Thurman v. Daimler Chrysler , the 6th Circuit agreed that the following agreement between an employer and an employee shortening the ti...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

This is what sex discrimination will look like if the Department of Justice gets its wish to legalize sex stereotyping

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Last week the Department of Justice (on behalf of its client, the EEOC), filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to conclude that “s ex st...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

SCOTUS decides whether Title VII’s charge-filing precondition to suit is jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional

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If the U.S. Supreme Court decided an employment case, I’m contractually obligated to blog about it. Yet,  Ford Bend County, Texas v. Davi...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

The three things you need to know from the EEOC's 2018 charge data

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Yesterday, the EEOC released its charge statistics for 2018 . There are three big things you need to know.