Discussions on Recent Legislation, Noteworthy Cases & Trends in Enforcement
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…
Continue Reading What Employers Need To Know About The EEOC’s Updated Enforcement Plan
Last year at this time, we posted some of the statistics set forth in the EEOC’s annual end-of-the-fiscal-year Performance Report (“PAR”). See http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/plan/index.cfm.
We have just received the latest…
Continue Reading New EEOC End-Of-Fiscal-Year Performance Report
Another employer has settled a GINA class action brought by the EEOC – for $187,500.
The EEOC told a Practising Law Institute conference two years ago of a number of…
Continue Reading Another GINA Class Action Settled By The EEOC
We have written before about the EEOC’s announced intent, as per its Strategic Enforcement Plan (“SEP”), to protect “vulnerable” workers. We said on June 5, 2014: “‘The most vulnerable…
Continue Reading Sexually Harassed, Vulnerable Farm Workers Subject Of New EEOC Suit
The EEOC just sued a NYC home care services agency for asking job applicants and employees for genetic information, in alleged violation of GINA, The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
Continue Reading EEOC Now Using GINA To Target Health Care Facility
Last January, we posted about a newly-filed EEOC lawsuit which alleged that a nursing care facility offered two part-time positions to an applicant who is deaf (dietary aide/assistant cook). The…
Continue Reading Care Facility To Pay Deaf Applicant For Failure To Hire
Discrimination based upon religion is in the news today after the EEOC just sued a Food Lion store in North Carolina for refusing to accommodate, and firing, an employee who…
Continue Reading Accommodate Religious Beliefs: The EEOC Is Watching
Reuters reported yesterday that the EEOC has just sued a pawn shop chain in Brooklyn and Queens (that’s NYC), owned by a convicted fence known as “Fat Frank.” The EEOC…
Continue Reading EEOC Sues NYC Pawn Shop Owner For Sexual and Racial Harassment Of “Vulnerable” Workers
On February 4, 2013 we said that juries do not like nooses or the N-word in the workplace. This was in the context of a verdict by a North Carolina…
Continue Reading Juries Don’t Like Nooses or the “N-Word”: Neither Do Appellate Courts
“The most vulnerable workers” — this is a part of the EEOC’s strategic plan for enforcement. Protecting them, that is, as we noted before — think farm workers, migrant workers,…
Continue Reading “Vulnerable” Thai Farmworkers To Receive $2.4 Million, EEOC Says
