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FILTER RESULTS ►What the New EEOC Guidance Means for You
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) recent guidance on background checks suggests that employers need to exercise more due diligence in their hiring practices. Its guidance on background check practices underscores the importance of five key practices in the hiring process. 1. Show More Summary
How to Prevent a Retaliation Claim
Over the past several years, charges of retaliation filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have significantly increased, making retaliation a major legal risk that employers face. Here are several ways that employers...Show More Summary
Forcing your employees to do dumb Scientology exercises creates a "hostile work environment"
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Dennis Nobbe's Dynamic Medical Services, Inc, where employees were made to engage in bizarre Scientology rituals as a condition of employment. The EEOC says that this violated employees' freedom of religion, and they're suing Dr Nobbe to prove it. This is the downside [...]
No, You Can't Force Your Employees to Be Scientologists
So says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in this press release, describing a lawsuit it filed today (May 9) against a Miami company. According to the EEOC, the company required employees to take Scientology courses and engage in a variety...
Cohen Milstein Partner Confirmed as EEOC Commissioner
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll partner Jenny Yang to serve as a commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Yang, whose term will expire July 1, 2017, fills the spot left vacant when Democrat...
Pregnant Hospital Worker Forced to Take Unpaid Leave Because She Couldn't Lift 50-Pound Bags of Trash
The National Women's Law Center filed a complaint today with the U.S. Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of Amy Crosby, a 30 year-old pregnant hospital cleaner in Tallahassee, Florida who had to go onShow More Summary
Report cites ‘many obstacles’ for black federal employees
There are “many obstacles to achieving equality for African Americans in the federal workforce,” according to a new study issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). EEOC said the document is not “a traditional report with findings and conclusions of … Continue reading ?
End the Madness at the EEOC
The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) has put the nation's private employers between the regulatory rock and the legal hard place as regards criminal background checks.
Enforcing Employer Compliance at the Federal Level is the Focus in 2013
By Deanna Arnold, Tire Review With a record number of discrimination/retaliation claims filed by workers with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2010 and 2011, the EEOC received almost 100,000 in 2012. In December of 2012, the EEOC laid out the details of its Strategic Enforcement Plan for fiscal years 2013-16 and identified six [...]
EEOC sues law firm over 75-lb. lifting requirement
“The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice on behalf of a former office assistant who claims disability discrimination over a lifting requirement.” The job’s requirements, at the firm’s North...Show More Summary
EEOC Threatens Lawsuits for Hiring 'Discrimination' over Criminal Records
President Barack Obama's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last April that the "Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions" would be updated so an employer's use...Show More Summary
EEOC Scores Wins in Pair of Systemic Discrimination Cases
It's been a good week in court for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with agency lawyers racking up wins in two proceedings involving cases of systemic discrimination, a top priority under the EEOC's new strategic enforcement plan. On January...
Three Take-Aways from the EEOC’s Strategic Enforcement Plan by Commissioner Chai Feldblum
Three Take-Aways from the EEOC’s Strategic Enforcement Plan By Commissioner Chai R. Feldblum The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enters the New Year with the wind at its back. Following the enactment in February 2012 of a four-year Strategic Plan that addressed all aspects of the agency’s work, the Commission met the plan’s first performance [...]
3 Ways to Prevent Workplace Retaliation Lawsuits
Last year, workplace retaliation lawsuits exceeded the number of lawsuits filed for discrimination based on race, sex, disability, or religious discrimination, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Previously, retaliation lawsuits were viewed as a "throw-in" claim to discrimination lawsuits. Show More Summary
NYC Steakhouse Settles with EEOC over Male-on-Male Harassment Charges
An upscale New York City steakhouse has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle charges by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that managers sexually harassed 22 male waiters over an almost eight-year period. The EEOC's case against Sparks Steak House...
Movement Analysis: The full impact of the EEOC ruling on the LGBT movement’s agenda
In April 2012, with Macy v. Holder, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect transgender people. This decision may constitute the biggest advancement for transgender employment rights ever made and we at the Task Force applaud the Transgender Law [...]
EEOC cracks down on pregnancy discrimination in workplace
During the past week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed four pregnancy discrimination related lawsuits and settled a fifth -- just weeks after the government's workplace discrimination law enforcement arm announced a plan to target employers who illegally discriminate against pregnant women. On Sept. Show More Summary
EEOC Sues Food Retailer for Firing Bipolar Worker
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued food retailer King Soopers Inc. for firing a worker who is bipolar, alleging that the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Employment discrimination suits involving mental illnesses are relatively rare and...
EEOC Seeks Input on Draft Strategic Plan
The EEOC has posted its Draft Strategic Plan for the Years 2012-16 on its website and asked for feedback. From the press release: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released for public comment a draft of its Strategic...
Ex-EEOC Judge Sues the EEOC for Discrimination, Retaliation
A former EEOC judge's lawsuit alleging discrimination and retaliation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can move forward, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday. Mary Bullock served as an administrative law judge with the EEOC from 1999 to 2007, The Wall Street Journal reports. EEOC judges, of course, hear complaints alleging......
