Recently, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which is responsible for enforcing the nondiscrimination and affirmative action commitments of companies doing business with the Federal Government, updated its website to ...
The First Circuit recently dismissed a case against Whole Foods, allowing the company to ban employees from wearing face masks with the message “Black Lives Matter” in their stores. The case stemmed from Whole Foods’s ...
On June 15, 2021, the EEOC issued a new technical assistance document (the “Guidance”) which aims to “educate employees, applicants, and employers about the rights of all employees, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers, ...
The sporting world has been abuzz recently with news that Washington’s NFL team and Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team are considering changing their team names and logos to move away from their overt Native American ...
In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the prohibition on employment discrimination “because of sex” in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act extends to discrimination against gay and transgender individuals. ...
Pronoun wars in the workplace are heating up. American workers are increasingly identifying as transgender, an umbrella term covering a wide range of gender identity and gender expression that differs from what society typically associates ...
A federal appeals court recently affirmed the right of a staffing company to sue for race discrimination if they are harmed by their customer’s discriminatory placement requests. Officials of White Glove Staffing (“White Glove”) met ...
What if Congress passed a nondiscrimination law and nobody paid any attention? That may be the primary impact of the federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). GINA bans discrimination on the basis of ...
