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2018 News

12-20-2018

Ninth Circuit Expands “Regarded As” Under the ADA

12-19-2018

KFC Employee Advances Lactation Based Claim

12-18-2018

Attorney Argues Google New Sexual Harassment Policy Deceptive

12-13-2018

Female Law Students From Top Schools Unite in a Stand Against Mandatory Arbitration

12-12-2018

Employer Entitled to Time Before Determining Reasonable Accommodation

12-11-2018

Detailed Accusations of Racial Harassment at Tesla

12-06-2018

Employee Alleging Physical Impairment Must Be Able to Show Impact

12-05-2018

Removing Personnel Files is Not Protected Activity

12-04-2018

Former Facebook Employee Says Racial Discrimination Big Issue

11-29-2018

Department of Education Proposes New Title IX Regulations

11-28-2018

Big Tech Companies Ending Practice of Mandatory Arbitration for Sex Harassment

11-27-2018

Ministerial Exception Protects Employer From Disability Discrimination

11-21-2018

United Kingdom to Institute Parental Bereavement

11-20-2018

No Retaliation for Applicant Who Requested Religious Accommodation

11-19-2018

Bad Reference Constitutes Retaliation Under Title VII

11-15-2018

FMLA Claim Lives Where Employer Encouraged Early Leave

11-14-2018

Essential Job Duties Question of Fact for Jury

11-13-2018

ADEA Applies to Public Sector Employers of All Sizes

11-08-2018

Employee Fired After Abortion May Proceed with Pregnancy Claim

11-07-2018

Jury Awards Female Scientist $3 Million for Sex Discrimination

11-06-2018

Google Reportedly Fired 48 Employees of Sex Harassment in Two Years

11-01-2018

A Government Divided on the Issue of Gender Identity

10-31-2018

Employee May Pursue ADA Claim Where Supervisor Accused of Triggering Suicide Attempt

10-30-2018

One Use of the N-Word Enough For Hostile Work Environment

10-25-2018

Timing of Retaliation Key For Determining Pretext

10-24-2018

Sherwood Food Agrees to Pay $3.6 Million to Settle Sex Discrimination Class Action

10-23-2018

Employer Filing of Bankruptcy Could Not Stop EEOC

10-18-2018

EEOC Seeing Big Increase in Sexual Harassment Complaints in Wake of #MeToo

10-17-2018

HR Professional Can’t Be Fired for Encouraging EEOC Charge

10-16-2018

New York Employers Beware: Strict Requirements are Now in Effect

10-11-2018

EEOC Action on Behalf of Seasonal Farm Worker Ok for Trial

10-10-2018

California Ups the Ante With Workplace Protections for Women

10-09-2018

Is Dallas Maverick’s Investigation a Roadmap for Ending Harassment?

10-04-2018

Employer’s Genuine Effort to Accommodate Dooms Employee’s Case

10-03-2018

Marriott Franchisee Settles Discrimination Case Based on Breast Cancer Diagnosis

10-02-2018

Walmart Object of New Class Action for Pregnancy Discrimination

09-27-2018

CBS Reporter Claims Worked in Culture of Abuse

09-26-2018

Anti-American Bias Forces Foreign Company to Trial

09-25-2018

ADA Does Not Require Employee to Pay for MRI

09-20-2018

Male Student Entitled to Cross-Examine His Accuser Under Title IX

09-19-2018

Costco’s Weak Response to Customer Harassment Leads to Confirmation of Judgment

09-18-2018

Employee Cleared for Work May Still Be Disabled

09-13-2018

Up and Coming Company Paying $3.5 Million to Settle Sex Harassment Lawsuit

09-12-2018

Seventh Circuit Holds Once Again That Sex Discrimination Includes Sexual Orientation

09-11-2018

Does Title IX Protect a Male Coach From Discrimination Against His Women’s Team?

09-06-2018

Good Performance and Health Questions Suggest Pretext

09-05-2018

Employee’s Pain May Be Entitled to Accommodation

09-04-2018

Good Performance With Age Related Comments Enough to Suggest Pretext

08-30-2018

When Retaliation and Pretext Are Not Enough

08-29-2018

Will United Airlines Be Held Responsible For Off-Duty Harassment?

08-28-2018

No EEOC Charge? A Lawsuit is Still Possible

08-23-2018

When Attendance at the Workplace May Be Considered an Essential Function

08-22-2018

Misleading Transfer Could Be Considered Adverse Action

08-21-2018

Employee Alleging Continuing Harassment Not Required To Recall Every Detail

08-16-2018

Male Harassment in Mixed Gender Workplace Was Sex Harassment

08-15-2018

Sixth Circuit Affirms Verdict for Diabetic Employee

08-14-2018

Wall Street Reacts to #MeToo With “Weinstein” Clause

08-09-2018

Blatant Race Discrimination Alleged at Law Firm

08-08-2018

UPS No Longer Able to Automatically Pay Disabled Workers Less

08-07-2018

Affirmation That Employers May Select Reasonable Accommodation

08-02-2018

Sexual Harassing Iowa County Attorney Allowed to Keep His Job

08-01-2018

Federal Magistrate Expands Race Discrimination to Include Jewish Heritage

07-31-2018

Employer Can’t Just Say Full-Time Employment Essential Function

07-26-2018

Accommodation of Pregnancy-Related Condition Fell Under ADA

07-25-2018

Even Unique Work Environments Require Employers to Protect Employees

07-24-2018

Estee Lauder Settles With Dads Who Claim Bias

07-19-2018

Employer May Still Be Liable When Employee Could Not Reasonably Complain

07-18-2018

No FMLA Claim for Employee Who Failed to Submit Documentation

07-17-2018

Employee Preference Not Final Arbiter of Reasonableness

07-12-2018

KPMG Sets New Standard By Funding Pro-Golfer’s Maternity Leave

07-11-2018

Age Discrimination Undiminished According to EEOC Report

07-10-2018

Uniting with the #MeToo Movement, EEOC Initiates Broad Fight Against Sexual Harassment

07-05-2018

Maryland Presses Employers to Reveal Sexual Harassment Issues

07-04-2018

U.S. Supreme Court Ends Mandatory Public Union Fees

07-03-2018

Employer’s Action Saves it From a Jury’s Verdict

06-28-2018

White House Harassment Guidance in Limbo

06-27-2018

EEOC Sues Georgina’s Taqueria for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

06-26-2018

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Issues Study on Sexual Harassment

06-21-2018

California Holds Cheesecake Factory Liable for Unpaid Janitorial Wages

06-20-2018

Maternity Leave Does Not Guarantee Employment for Poor Performer

06-19-2018

Employer Entitled to Enforce Written FMLA Policy

06-13-2018

Circuit Court Revives Case with Evidence of Failure to Transfer and Discriminatory Comment

06-12-2018

IBM in the Spotlight Over Alleged Age Discrimination

06-07-2018

Racial Bias May Be Shown Through Prism of Custom and Historical Reference

06-06-2018

Walmart Seeking Tech Moms Returning to the Work Force

06-05-2018

Supreme Court Sets Aside the Balance Between Religion and Homosexuality for Another Day

06-05-2018

Two Female Firefighters Challenge Systemic Discrimination In Virginia

05-31-2018

Supreme Court Finds FAA Outranks NLRA

05-30-2018

EEOC Action Results in $2.6 Million for Female Law Professors

05-29-2018

Time’s Up Fund Begins to Take Action

05-24-2018

Circumstantial Case of Pregnancy Discrimination Enough to See a Jury

05-23-2018

AT&T Mobility’s No-Fault Attendance Accused of Being Discriminatory

05-22-2018

No ADA Claim Where Schedule Accommodation Contravenes Essential Functions

05-17-2018

Federal District Court Finds Salary Inquiry Ban Violates First Amendment

05-16-2018

Seventh Circuit Expands Means for Age Discrimination Claims

05-15-2018

Seasons 52 Pays $2.85 Million For Age Bias

05-10-2018

“Onionhead” Company Loses at Jury Trial

05-09-2018

California Supreme Court Made Huge Change to Independent Contractor Law

05-08-2018

Lawsuit Contends Workplace Bias Against Moms

05-03-2018

Threat of Violence Overrides FMLA Retaliation Claim

05-02-2018

California Restaurant Creates Shorthand Code for Harassment

05-01-2018

New York Enacts Broad Anti-Sexual Harassment Regulations

04-26-2018

DOL Clarifies Pay for Travel Time and FMLA Breaks

04-25-2018

“A Crime of Violence” Deemed Unconstitutionally Vague

04-24-2018

NFL Accused of Age Discrimination

04-19-2018

Marine General Suspended Following Public Mocking of Sexual Harassment

04-18-2018

Ninth Circuit Reverses Itself on Equal Pay Act

04-17-2018

A Texas Federal Court Finds Title VII Protection for Transgender Employees

04-12-2018

Ford Employee Wins 16 Million Plus in Lawsuit

04-11-2018

Neutral Hiring Policy Did Not Negate Evidence of Manager’s Bias

04-10-2018

Final Verdict: Service Advisors Exempt From Overtime Rules

04-05-2018

Colorado Aide Mocks Sexual Harassment, Costs Him Job

04-04-2018

Family Dollar to Pay $45 Million Settlement

04-03-2018

New Orleans Saints Accused of Double Standard

03-29-2018

Latham & Watkin’s Chairman Resigns When Sex Harassment Allegations Come to Light

03-28-2018

Change in Strategy for Movement Toward Graduate Student Unions

03-27-2018

Chicago Police Department Challenged on Sex Discrimination

03-22-2018

Performing Essential Functions of Position Necessary Even With Leave Donation Program

03-21-2018

Common Sense Required for Notice of Sex Discrimination Complaint

03-20-2018

Inside Microsoft’s Internal Investigation Process

03-15-2018

Interactive Process is a Must for Employees Too

03-14-2018

Eleventh Circuit Takes a Closer Look at Equal Pay

03-13-2018

Federal Appeals Court Finds Title VII Protects Transgender Employees

03-08-2018

In This Case, Telecommuting Was Reasonable Accommodation

03-07-2018

Future Possibility of Ebola is Not a Disability

03-06-2018

Second Circuit Rules on Sexual Orientation Discrimination

03-01-2018

Actors' Ages May Not Be Forcibly Excluded From Entertainment Websites

02-28-2018

Author of Infamous Google Memo Does Not Have Labor Claim

02-27-2018

$13 Million Verdict for Female Oncologist Against UCLA

02-22-2018

All State AGs Ask for No Arbitration in Sex Harassment Claims

02-21-2018

California Court Proclaims "Independent Contractor" to Grubhub Worker

02-20-2018

Wal-Mart's Genuine Effort to Accommodate Upheld

02-15-2018

EEOC's Criminal Background Check Guidance Meets Texas

02-14-2018

BlackRock Asks Where Are the Women?

02-13-2018

California Judge Gives His Take on Cake Case

02-08-2018

Employer Entitled to Determine Whether Amputated Foot Was Disability

02-07-2018

Subtle Evidence of Discrimination May Support Claim

02-06-2018

No Explanation Needed for Firings Under Title VII

02-01-2018

Corporate Counsel Disbarred After Videotaping Women

01-31-2018

Mindfulness Assistant Principal Failed to Articulate Religious Discrimination Claim

01-30-2018

Hospital Held Accountable for Past Knowledge of Sexual Harassment

01-25-2018

Aflac Accused of Worker Exploitation and Deception

01-24-2018

Police Officer Who Couldn’t Be Tazed “Regarded As” Disabled

01-23-2018

ICE Pushes Forward Enforcement Strategy With 7-Eleven Raid

01-18-2018

The Sensitive Issue of Fraudulent Service Dogs

01-17-2018

The Question “Are You an Intern” Gets New Answers

01-16-2018

Court Says No to Reverse Sexual Orientation Discrimination

01-11-2018

IT Worker Loses Argument Justifying Sabotage

01-10-2018

Utah State Anti-Discrimination Agency Not Doing Its Job

01-09-2018

Some Employers Using ICE as a Weapon

01-04-2018

Court Grants Employer Some Access to Plaintiff’s Social Media Posts

01-03-2018

Lawsuit Filed Against Facebook Ads That Exclude Older Workers

01-02-2018

No Arbitration: Age Discrimination Suit Against Chrysler May Proceed