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Australia
Cooper Grace Ward
Brief reminder of changes to the sexual harassment laws, summary of the landmark judgment & key takeaways for employers.
Belgium
Altius
On 18 April 2024, a new Act to better protect employees undergoing infertility treatment was published in the Belgian State Gazette.
Osborne Clarke
The impact of AI spans across various sectors, with notable implications observed in the employment relationship.
Canada
MLT Aikins LLP
As health-care professionals, pharmacists know firsthand that the prevalence of mental health injuries has steadily increased in recent years. It is also no secret that many of those conditions...
Clark Wilson LLP
Can an employer terminate an employee who is on sick leave? This is a question many employers have been grappling with lately and frustratingly the answer is usually not straight forward.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
On March 27, 2024, Bill 42, An Act to prevent and fight psychological harassment and sexual violence in the workplace (Act), was sanctioned by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec.
Fasken
The Alberta courts found that a private school discriminated against two students by not allowing them to pray at school. This decision is a good reminder...
Rubin Thomlinson LLP
Under Ontario's human rights jurisprudence, when an employee raises a complaint of discrimination, the employer has a duty to address that complaint. The employer's response to a complaint...
India
BTG Advaya
A hostile work environment is created when an employee experiences workplace harassment or discrimination that is pervasive and severe enough to affect...
BTG Advaya
There is a significant gender gap in the labour market, with low rates of female labour force participation. This gender gap in the LFPR has remained almost consistent...
UK
Herrington Carmichael
Over the past few weeks, the Gender Pay Gap reporting deadlines passed in the UK. However, despite the headline figures suggesting that the gender pay gap...
Ankura Consulting Group LLC
Non-financial misconduct has become an urgent matter of discussion across the financial services sector. Workplace behaviours such as harassment and abuse are indicators...
Pierson Ferdinand
An employment tribunal in the UK stated that "[o]ffering a chair to an older colleague at work could count as age discrimination."
Pierson Ferdinand
We know that bullying in the workplace, no matter how horrible or damaging, is not by itself actionable under Title VII...
United States
Butler Snow LLP
On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, the United States Supreme Court provided an opening for workers to allege employment discrimination claims regarding job transfers...
Jackson Lewis
The U.S. Department of Education has released its final amendments of the regulations to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 regarding how educational institutions must handle allegations...
Foley Hoag LLP
On April 17, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Muldrow v. St. Louis that rejected a heightened injury standard for Title VII claims based on job transfers...
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.
In March 2024, three class action lawsuits were filed by former plan participants against plan fiduciaries in connection with pension risk transfers to Athene Holding Ltd.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
In a unanimous 9-0 decision issued April 17, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an employee bringing a Title VII claim based on a job transfer must show that the transfer...
Wiley Rein
In a win for Wiley's client, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, applying New York law, has held that a private company management and employment practices liability policy does not cover a lawsuit by the insured's former employee.
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