In December, 2019, New Jersey enacted the Create a Respectful and Open Workspace for Natural Hair Act, or the CROWN Act. The CROWN act amends the New Jersey Law Against
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EEOC Releases 2019 Enforcement Data: Retaliation Charges Lead the Way
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released its annual enforcement and litigation statistics for fiscal year 2019. For fiscal year 2019, retaliation, disability discrimination, race discrimination, and sex discrimination
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NY Outlaws Discrimination Based on Employee Reproductive Health Decisions
With a lack of legislative action in Congress on employment discrimination issues, state and local governments continue to expand employee protections.
A newly enacted (and immediately effective) law in the
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NJ Issues Guidance on Race Discrimination Based on Hairstyle
Recently, several jurisdictions have stated that discriminating against an employee on the basis of the employee’s hairstyle, where the hairstyle is closely associated with race, constitutes race discrimination. The New
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Supreme Court Hears Argument in LGBT Discrimination Cases: What’s Next?
As regular readers of our blog will already know, the issue of whether Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on an employee’s sexual orientation or gender identity has been a
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Maine Joins Growing Ranks of States Banning Salary History Inquiries
At this blog, we’ve written extensively about the proliferation of legislation at the state and local level to prohibit employers from inquiring about the salary or wage history of job
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Reminder: Sex Discrimination is NOT the Solution to Sexual Harassment
A new article in Bloomberg details an unusual (to put it diplomatically) strategy that some male executives in the financial sector are using to avoid claims of sexual harassment:
No
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2018 in Review: The EEOC Has Been Busy
As 2018 winds to a close, the EEOC has released a report showing the agency has been a busy bee in 2018.
As part of the EEOC’s 2018 Performance Accountability
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NJ Legislation to Expand Accommodations for Breastfeeding Employees Proposed
Earlier this year, New Jersey enacted a law to protect breastfeeding employees and require employers to provide certain accommodations to breastfeeding employees.
Notably, this law required reasonable accommodations as a
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Latest Updates: Title VII and Gender Identity
It’s been a busy month for those keeping an eye on one of the most pressing questions in employment law: whether Title VII, which prohibits sex discrimination in employment, also
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