As the government shut-down continues, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) remains closed. A notice on their web site offers guidance to visitors on the status of the agency’s obligations and activities. Charge Filing The ...
Based on a recent decision from the United States Supreme Court, resistance to a subpoena from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will likely be futile. In the typical case, a charge from the EEOC ...
A recent Federal Appeals Court case offered an interesting view on how discrimination based on cultural attributes of a particular race may not actually be illegal race discrimination. CMS of Mobile, Alabama, hired Chastity Jones ...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has issued a new Resource Document (“Resource”) to reinforce employers’ obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) to provide leave as a reasonable accommodation to employees with disabilities. ...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just issued a new fact sheet on transgender rights that they hope will flush the discrimination v. privacy debate down the drain. Entitled “Bathroom Access Rights for Transgender ...
Religious discrimination charges have now been filed against Cargill for having fired about 150 Muslim employees who complained about insufficient time for prayer breaks during their work shifts. The workers, who are mostly Somalian immigrants, ...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced recently that they settled or resolved over 15,000 cases in Fiscal 2015 that brought in over half a billion dollars for alleged victims of discrimination. EEOC also heralded ...
The new Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues proposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) poses a threat of more retaliation claims under federal discrimination laws (I.e. Title VII, the ADA and the ADEA) and increased liability for ...
