Topic
Conciliation
90 published works
Administrative and Regulatory
The EEOC’s Demand For A Nine-Day Response To A $6.45 Million Conciliation Demand With Broad Programmatic Relief Backfires And Results In Order For More Definite Statement And Court-Supervised Conciliation More Than Three Years After The Filing Of The EEOC
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Rebecca Bjork The opinion of Judge Mark R. Hornak of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, issued on January 22,…
Employment & Labor
And The Drum Beat Continues – Another Court Finds The EEOC’s Pre-Litigation Conciliation Efforts Insufficient
By Courtney Bohl and Laura J. Maechtlen In yet another case regarding the sufficiency of the EEOC’s pre-litigation conciliation efforts, Judge Marcia Kriger of the U.S. District Court for the…
Employment & Labor
New Year, But Old Tactics: EEOC Iced In Arizona For Mixed Bag Of Procedural And Substantive Failings
By Christopher DeGroff and Julie Yap Despite a number of setbacks in 2011 and 2012, it appears that the EEOC is charging into 2013 with much the same playbook it…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Cleaning off my to-post list round-up
There's so much that I've been meaning to post lately, but I've gotten so behind there's no chance. So just to throw it all out there in no particular order:The…
Employment & Labor
The EEOC Suffers A Set-Back Due To Its Rush To Litigation
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Laura J. Maechtlen, and Joshua M. Henderson Under Title VII, the EEOC has an obligation before filing suit to engage in conciliation in good faith…
Employment & Labor
New Decision On The EEOC’s Pre-Suit Investigation Requirement, Giving Nod To Investigation And Conciliation Tactics Criticized By Eighth Circuit
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Jennifer A. Riley After suffering a serious blow to its systemic investigation and conciliation tactics last week, the EEOC received a better result on…
Employment & Labor
EEOC Escapes Fee Award (For Now) In The Eighth Circuit, But Suffers Significant Blow To Its Investigation And Conciliation Tactics
By Christopher DeGroff and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit gave the EEOC a potential reprieve from a stunning $4.467 million fees and expenses award this…
La Revue
Clause de conciliation obligatoire : on peut régulariser en cours d’instance
Cass. civ. 2, 16 décembre 2010, n° 09-71575 La construction jurisprudentielle se poursuit après l’arrêt de la Chambre mixte du 14 février 2003 qui avait jugé que l’ignorance d’une clause…
La Revue
Le décret du 1er octobre 2010 relatif à la conciliation
Décret n° 2010-1165 du 1er octobre 2010 relatif à la conciliation et à la procédure orale en matière civile, commerciale et sociale Inspiré du rapport Guinchard sur la répartition des…
Fair Housing Defense
Should Management Conciliate/Settle the Complaint?
As a part of every fair housing action, the investigator assigned to the case ALWAYS asks if management wants to settle (or conciliate) the complaint. To be sure, it is in…