Employers take note: the EEOC has issued an updated Strategic Enforcement Plan (“SEP”) for fiscal years 2017-2021.
What’s a Strategic Enforcement Plan?
The EEOC’s SEP describes the areas that will
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Query: a longtime employee, who has previously identified in your workplace as female, begins dressing for work like a man, grooming according to male standards, and identifying as male. He
Continue Reading Transgender Police Officer Wins Title VII Claim Against School District
Regardless of the type of employer you are, you depend, on some level, on customers who are willing to pay for the goods or services being offered. And the old
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As my colleague Christina Stoneburner wrote earlier in the week, we aren’t even through summer 2016, yet the number of new employment laws and regulations enacted that employers must
Continue Reading Questions About Past Salaries Are The New “Ban The Box” Under Massachusetts’ Far Reaching Pay Equity Law
Yesterday, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling holding that Title VII does not prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The case
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(Many thanks to Christina, for her gracious invitation to join the blog as a regular contributor! -Brian)
As my colleague Christina Stoneburner posted yesterday and today, North Carolina recently enacted the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, which, among other similar state laws that continue cropping
Continue Reading Despite North Carolina And Georgia, Gender Identity And Sexual Orientation May Be Protected Under Federal Law
Last week, the EEOC reached a $1.02 million settlement with Vail Run Community Resort Association, Inc. and its management company, Global Hospitality Resorts, Inc. The settlement came after the EEOC
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Bikram Choudhury, founder of Bikram Yoga or hot yoga as it is colloquially referred, has been the center of several well-publicized sexual harassment lawsuit. As the trial of one former
Continue Reading Bikram Choudhury’s Wife Ups the Heat on Yoga Guru and Damages His Defense to Sexual Harassment Claims
The Illinois Human Rights Commission recently ruled against Hobby Lobby and found that it had discriminated against a transgendered employee by refusing to let her use the women’s restroom unless
Continue Reading Hobby Lobby Given a Swirlie for Bathroom Policies Applied to a Transgendered Employee