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Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al., the Supreme Court of the United States dealt a heavy blow to diversity initiatives...
Kilgore & Kilgore
On February 8, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled for protecting employee rights in whistleblower cases where lawfully protected actions are contributing factors to adverse employment actions.
Kilgore & Kilgore
A recent Fifth Circuit Court decision explicitly acknowledged that the ADAA (Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008) modifies the definition...
Barnes & Thornburg
In April 2022, the city of Chicago strengthened its sexual harassment law and added annual training requirements. Since this is a city law...
Fairfield and Woods
Let's say an employee is being sexually harassed by the boss. The employee has complained to HR, but to no avail, and, finally, the employee has had enough.
Kilgore & Kilgore
In April, the Fifth Circuit of Appeals found that Carolyn Spears, formerly a tenured professor at Louisiana College (LC), had made out a prima facie case of age, sex...
Kilgore & Kilgore
On August 18, 2023, the Fifth Circuit set a new legal precedent for employment discrimination by holding that workers who have been victims of discrimination at work...
Kilgore & Kilgore
The decision of the Fifth Circuit in Wallace v. Performance Contractors has been hailed as one of the most significant Fifth Circuit employment law cases of 2023.
Kilgore & Kilgore
In October 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published new draft guidelines on workplace harassment.
Kilgore & Kilgore
Recently, Kilgore & Kilgore lawyers Mitch Abeita, Bob Goodman and Eric Roberson filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball ("MLB") on behalf of MLB scouts...
Pierson Ferdinand
Congress has considered legislation several times that would prohibit employers from discriminating based on an individual's hair texture or hairstyle...
Kaufman Rossin
On the one hand, Social Security provides higher monthly benefits for those who are willing to wait. In fact, when financial economists crunch the average numbers...
Pierson Ferdinand
I have long been a fan of Karla Miller's Work Advice column in The Washington Post. Karla provides salient advice to people who write to her with their workplace conundrums.
Brown, Goldstein & Levy
A recent decision out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mares v. Miami Valley Hospital, is a new entry in the persistent confusion and debate about whether, in the eyes of the law, residents and fellows are employees or students.
Littler Mendelson
Our internal investigation team needs help addressing the presence of witness trauma.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
On March 14, 2024, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed legislation that would prohibit employers from obtaining or using a true credit report for employment purposes.
Brown, Goldstein & Levy
Residents and fellows in ACGME-accredited training programs know well that "Professionalism" is one of the six core competencies they are to develop in the course of their training.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
The DOJ issued final regulations under Title II of the ADA requiring state and local government websites and mobile apps to conform to WCAG 2.1 AA in two or three years, with few exceptions.
Pierson Ferdinand
After taking a few days off and rocking out in Seattle, I'm back to blogging about employment law.
WilmerHale
#MeToo is still moving across the pond. On March 8, 2024, the House of Commons Treasury Committee published a report entitled "Sexism in the City" (referenced as "Report" in this article)...
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