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The EEOC filed 110 lawsuits challenging unlawful employment discrimination in fiscal year 2024, placing an emphasis on what a commission statement called “emerging issues and advancing the employment rights of underserved and vulnerable workers.”
Read MoreStudies show that employers with diverse workforces outperform homogenous organizations on such important measures as innovation, revenue and profitability. However, employers intent on fostering diversity must do it in a way that doesn’t discriminate against any specific group of applicants or employees.
Read MoreIf you need a reason to stamp out workplace name-calling, discriminatory work assignments and retaliation, consider the massive punitive-damages award a jury recently granted to an employee who sued because of ongoing racist behavior by a supervisor.
Read MoreWhen the Supreme Court recently made it more difficult for federal agencies to pass regulations interpreting the laws agencies enforce, many employers believed the ruling might free them from new and burdensome regulations. That may be true, but there’s a huge downside.
Read MoreEvery fall, Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute releases an annual report on the top issues for corporate executives. One of the top trends that impact every size employer is the increased complexity of state and local employment laws.
Read MoreThere is no federal law that requires employers to provide voting leave. Whether you provide paid time off depends on your policies and whether you are in a jurisdiction that requires it.
Read MoreWe have an employee with hearing loss who refuses to wear hearing aids. She doesn’t seem to realize or care how this affects those around her when she can’t hear conversations, etc. How should we deal with this?
Read MoreThe Supreme Court ruled that agency trials conducted by administrative law judges appointed by the agency violated the constitutional right to trial by jury. Since then, some employers have questioned the process that agencies like the NLRB use when charging employers with violating laws including the NLRA.
Read MoreWould you recommend we revamp our handbook language on probationary periods to address all aspects of performance, not just attendance?
Read MoreNew laws in a growing number of jurisdictions now require some form of pay transparency from employers.
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