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When conversations around workplace equity stall or spark conflict, it’s often not because someone is unwilling to engage, but because people are starting from entirely different premises. A new Pew Research Center report highlights how vastly Americans’ perceptions of discrimination differ across political, demographic and social lines.

Hiring someone with work authorization that expires may mean more monitoring on the employer’s part. But preferring citizens or permanent residents over others for convenience violates both Title VII and our immigration laws.

Your employee referral program could backfire if it leads to too many employees who are alike in terms of sex, race, age or other protected characteristics. In fact, courts regularly penalize companies that rely too heavily on employee referral programs, saying they foster homogeneous workforces and perpetuate discrimination.

A recent court ruling related to FMLA leave and pregnancy holds vital lessons for employers.

The ADA doesn’t set a time limit for the reasonable accommodations process, but assumes that everybody will act in good faith. So when the process takes too long, the employee can sue, alleging failure to accommodate.

Teens can ask a question and get an instant (sometimes inaccurate) answer. Couple that with government websites designed to provide teens with accurate information about their rights, and you have a recipe for a PR nightmare.

We provide company cell phones for our employees. Sometimes it can be a hassle to use two phones, the company and personal. If we decided to have our employees use their personal cell phones, could that be a jeopardy for the company?

A May 20 internal announcement ends a long-standing practice of payments in so-called “dual filing” states that have their own anti-discrimination laws when those two kinds of discrimination claims are raised.

The total number of workplace injuries may be declining, but the risks—and associated costs—are growing more complex.

With this year marked by economic uncertainty, some employers have chosen to offer smaller pay increases. That may lead to dissatisfaction among workers still contending with the effects of inflation and rising costs.