Excerpted from a Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP blog by Willard Krasnow Zoom Video Communications, Inc., has been sued for alleged hiring discrimination against a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipient...
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Excerpted from a Bradley blog by Cortlin Bond and Anne R. Yuengert You may recall last summer the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia that held discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited by Title VII...
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Excerpted from a Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC Blog by Nihla F. Sikkander “How is my hair? Does it look OK?” With employees returning to onsite work, questions regarding employers’ grooming and dress code policies are bound to crop up. When...
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Excerpted from a Courthouse News Service story by Rox Laird An Iowa business association claims a Waterloo city ordinance protecting job applicants with criminal records conflicts with state law. An Iowa city’s ordinance that initially bars...
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Excerpted from a Harvard Business Review article by Christian Thoroughgood, Katina Sawyer and Jennica Webster For most of us, work is stressful in and of itself. Imagine carrying the added emotional weight of having to deny and suppress one of...
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Excerpted from Hall Benefits Law blog. On January 15, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued updated guidance to its Compliance Manual on Religious Discrimination, the first significant update since 2008. In the updated...
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An article that ran last week in The Daily Mail detailed a rather unique plan for factory workers in France to wear social distancing “dog collars” that emit an alarm if people stand too close to each other. Needless-to-say, this quirky...
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Excerpted from a Protocol story by Emily Birnbaum The country’s top tech companies are mobilizing against President Trump’s executive order barring federal contractors from offering diversity and inclusion training to their employees...
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Excerpted from The Journal Times story by Adam Rogan “Why didn’t you tell us about the felony on your record?” the manager of a Target angrily asked Bryan Strong over the phone. “I don’t have a felony on my record,” Strong replied. That is the...
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As Texas and the U.S. emerges from its COVID-19 lockdown, many people who have been working from their coffee tables are being called back to the office. As of June, offices in Texas are allowed to reopen as long as they implement minimum...
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Excerpted from HR Dive By Ryan Golden Dive Brief: •The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) must pay $3.3 million for failing to properly negotiate with an employer, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled (EEOC v. CRST Van...
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Excerpted from The National Law Review by Epstein Becker & Green As of September 2019, 33 states and Washington, DC, have legalized medical marijuana use, and 10 states and Washington, DC, have legalized both medical and recreational...
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