The hidden messages in EEOC’s ‘official’ agenda
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has unveiled its strategy for enforcing workplace discrimination laws over the next few years. Here’s what employers need to look out for.
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There’s a big difference between mistreating an employee and mistreating an employee for a reason that the law prohibits. In other words, there’s no law against just being a jerk. In a perfect world, there would be no mistreatment at all. But in the real world, the truth is that an employer can escape legal…
Some employers might think a single comment can never create an illegally hostile work environment. Those employers would be dead wrong. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas) just joined other federal appeals courts in holding that a single comment, if sufficiently severe, can give rise to…
A labor union and its apprenticeship program will pay $1.65 million to settle part of a race discrimination suit that was first filed in 1971 — and will continue.
To win a claim of discrimination under Title VII, a plaintiff must show they were subjected to an “adverse employment action.” Some job actions – like termination or demotion – are obviously “adverse.” But what about a paid suspension? Does that meet the definition? In a new decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
If any of your managers think an employee complaint about unfair treatment or discrimination is unimportant, let them take a look at these statistics.
The recent outcome of a discrimination lawsuit shows employers that racial bias doesn’t just affect minority employees. When one company discriminated against a white male worker, it ended up paying $10 million to settle the suit. Here’s what happened. Fired days before anniversary David Duvall worked at Novant Health Inc. in Michigan as a marketing…
The latest ruling on a social media debacle will only directly affect public employers — for now. Here’s why HR pros at private firms should be paying attention, too.
Proving unlawful race bias can be an uphill battle for employees. HR professionals can learn a lot from court decisions that say an employee’s supposed evidence of race bias fell short – or really didn’t show race bias at all. A decision from a federal appeals court demonstrates the point. This case was filed by…
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