Excerpted from a Jackson Lewis PC Blog by Patricia Anderson Pryor, Joy Napier-Joyce, Melissa Ostrower and Tasos Paindiris As many expected based on the draft leaked months ago, the U.S. Supreme Court has held the U.S. Constitution does not...
Read MoreZoom sued for allegedly mishandling recruitment of DACA recipient
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...
Read MoreEEOC provides new guidance on sexual orientation and other gender issues
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...
Read MoreHow is My Hair? A Brief Review of Hairstyle Discrimination in the Workplace
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...
Read MoreIowa Supreme Court urged to strike down “Ban the Box”
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...
Read MoreCreating a Trans-Inclusive workplace
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...
Read MoreEEOC issues revised Religious Discrimination Manual
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...
Read MoreFrench workers could be forced to wear social distancing collars
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...
Read MoreBan on diversity training sends tech companies scrambling
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...
Read MoreLawsuit filed against Target over illegal background checks
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...
Read MoreTo return or not to return to work – that is the question!
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...
Read MoreEEOC must pay $3.3M for failing to negotiate with employer
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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