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        Category: EEOC
        by Tawny L. Alvarez on January 18, 2017

        Last week the EEOC released proposed Enforcement Guidance on Unlawful Harassment with a Press Release noting that the proposed Guidance is available...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on November 8, 2016

        On Friday, November 4, 2016, the Western District of Pennsylvania issued an order denying the Defendant's Motion to Dismiss in EEOC v. Scott Medical...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on October 31, 2016

        The EEOC has posted its Strategic Enforcement Plan for Fiscal Years 2017-2021. Included in the substantive priorities: 1. Eliminating Barriers in...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on August 3, 2016

        Late last week, the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, in which it held that Title VII provides no redress...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on July 8, 2016

        The EEOC continues its push to recognize job protection for LGBT workers under Title VII. On Wednesday, the EEOC filed a lawsuit against Bojangles...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on June 17, 2016

        You know how we harp on the easy things? Like having all the required state and federal posting requirements hung in a place where employees can...

        May 20, 2016

        For those employment lawyers who believe that the EEOC and NLRB have tended to overreach of late (i.e., the defense bar), two separate decisions...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on April 6, 2016

        Yesterday, the Eighth Circuit issued an opinion in Morriss v. BNSF Railway Co., No. 14-3858 (April 5, 2016), rejecting the plaintiff's argument that...

        March 31, 2016

        Interesting story that developed on Wednesday: some of the biggest names in U.S. women's soccer filed a wage discrimination claim with the EEOC,...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on March 10, 2016

        The last few weeks have been filled with filings and decisions in federal courts across the country regarding sexual orientation as a basis for a...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on January 29, 2016

        Today the EEOC announced proposed changes to the EEO-1 form that will affect federal contractors and all employers who employ over 100 individuals....

        January 11, 2016

        Well, this just got interesting. Tracking a position it took last summer in an agency decision involving a federal employee, the EEOC recently filed...

        December 18, 2015

        If you have had the feeling that the creators and enforcers of the ACA speak with forked hoof, just see how the Federal Government speaks about...

        December 17, 2015

        When was the last time you reviewed the "minimum lifting requirements" in your job descriptions? In several cases this year, courts have looked...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on December 9, 2015

        As Jose Feliciano wishes us a Merry Christmas from the bottom of his heart, it is important that we as employers recognize that in order to maintain...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on October 1, 2015

        While normally EEO-1 reports have a filing deadline of September 30 (yes that was yesterday), this year the EEOC Joint Reporting Committee extended...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on August 13, 2015

        On Monday, Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the District of Massachusetts entered judgment in favor of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., after a five-day...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on July 7, 2015

        The answer is fairly obvious: don't refer to someone as having a Jezebel Spirit. If this happens, however, and an employee can't help but make the...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on April 20, 2015

        Earlier this month, the Sixth Circuit issued an en banc decision in the EEOC v. Ford Motor Co. matter concerning the ADA and telecommuting; finding...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on April 9, 2015

        On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that the EEOC does not have to identify any specifically aggrieved...

        by Tawny L. Alvarez on February 27, 2015

        Approximately 18 months ago we discussed the United States District Court for the District of Maryland's ruling that the EEOC had failed to show that...

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