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The Employer Handbook Blog“Anti-American” Bias in Hiring? The EEOC Says It’s Watching
Yesterday, I received an email from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that literally took my breath away. Continue reading
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Oh, you think you know retaliation, do you? Wait until you see this.
Yesterday, I read a press release in the EEOC’s Virtual Newsroom announcing the resolution of a retaliation lawsuit. In my twenty-plus years of practicing employment law, I didn’t recall seeing retaliation claims quite like this one. Continue reading
Can states legally ban “woke” training in the workplace?
In 2022, Florida passed The Individual Freedom Act. But most people know this law as the “Stop W.O.K.E. Act,” which stands for “Stop the Wrongs to our Kids and Employees.”
Whatever we call it, the Act says employers cannot subject “any individual, as a condition of employment,” to “training, instruction, or any other required activity that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels” a certain set of beliefs. The list of banned subjects generally relates to “woke” teachings on race, color, sex, or national origin. Florida employers can host these trainings but cannot require employees to attend them.
Will your business be ready for how recent events in Israel will undoubtedly impact your workplace?
On Saturday, the Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out a surprise attack in Israel that reportedly left over 900 dead. Israel has since responded with a declaration of war.
What does this Middle East conflict have to do with employment law? Continue reading
Talent acquisition specialist fired after video surfaces of her xenophobic rant on a train
According to reports, a pharmaceutical company fired one of its senior talent acquisition specialists last week after she appeared in a viral video on a New Jersey Transit train calling a small group of German men “f—ing immigrants and telling them to “get the f— out of our country.”
They wanted to hire “Ken and Barbie.” What they got was a discrimination lawsuit instead.
Today, we will have a lesson on the differences between “direct” and “circumstantial” evidence of discrimination. Continue reading
Hostile work environment claims are often like trees falling in the forest
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Continue reading
A bill to end hair discrimination takes another step towards becoming federal law.
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to prohibit discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair with a vote of 235-189. Continue reading
You can stand with Ukraine. Just remember to stand up for your Russian employees too.
It wasn’t long ago that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission noticed a spike in reports of mistreatment and harassment of Asian Americans and other people of Asian descent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading
Scoop! EEOC won’t cone-done ice cream company’s alleged pro-Hispanic hiring practices
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You (soft) served up one pun too many, Eric.
Geez! I might have blown my chance at drafting press releases for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Then again, anything is popsicle when you’re the cream of the crop.