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Employees are protected from retaliation for reporting discrimination or complaining about other Title VII violations. That’s true even if the employee doesn’t specifically state what kind of discrimination she’s charging, if she has generally been complaining about it over some time.
Read MoreThe only way for an employer to defend an Equal Pay Act lawsuit is to prove that the jobs aren’t substantially similar—or that the pay difference is attributable to some factor other than sex.
Read MoreTreating military service as a negative factor in any employment decisions can backfire badly. The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act makes that illegal.
Read MoreAccording to an internal email from the EEOC’s director of field operations, Thomas Colclough, cases will again be processed, with limitations.
Read MoreIf you assign sales territories based even in part on territory demographics that mirror your employee’s protected characteristics, you may end up losing a discrimination lawsuit.
Read MoreJonathan Segal, a partner at Duane Morris LLP, tells HR professionals to stay cognizant as he witnesses “an explosion and evolution” of antisemitic views. He advises them to condemn antisemitism as they would other workplace -isms.
Read MoreYou may rightly worry that posting jobs similar to ones that were eliminated could spur a lawsuit. But if you can clearly explain why you decided to reopen positions that were eliminated earlier, courts are unlikely to conclude you intended to discriminate against those who were not retained during the earlier RIF.
Read MoreThe EEOC takes discrimination against women because of their unique reproductive characteristics seriously, as a recent lawsuit settlement shows.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreA 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.
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