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Discrimination
3,353 published works
Ohio Employer Law Blog
When your AI meeting assistant becomes your worst witness
"[H]opefully a relatively strapping young man." That's how one manager allegedly described the "ideal person" to replace a female environmental scientist who had just been fired. That's bad. What's worse…
Consumer Finance Monitor
FTC Abandons Disparate Impact and “Unfair Discrimination” Theories: A Major Shift in Federal Consumer-Protection Law
By Richard J. Andreano, Jr., John L. Culhane, Jr., Alan S. Kaplinsky, Ronald K. Vaske
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken a major step toward dismantling two theories of discrimination. In a new Policy Statement Regarding Disparate-Impact Claims and “Unfair Discrimination” Claims, the FTC…
Consumer Finance Monitor
Illinois Enacts Disparate Impact Standard for Credit Decisions: What Lenders Need to Know
By Alan S. Kaplinsky, Richard J. Andreano, Jr., John L. Culhane, Jr.
Introduction Illinois has joined a growing number of states that are expanding fair lending obligations at the state level even as the federal government moves in the opposite direction. On…
Religion Clause
DOJ’s Title VI Suit Against Harvard Is Dismissed
As previously reported, in March the Justice Department filed suit against Harvard University alleging discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students in violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
The Legal Risks of Dismissing Workplace Complaints Too Quickly
By Emily Elder
You are an employer in Ontario. An employee has raised concerns about a colleague’s behaviour. Whether the allegations could amount to workplace harassment, workplace violence, discrimination, or other inappropriate conduct,…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
New Illinois Law Requires Accommodations for Menopause-Related Conditions
Governor Pritzker has signed the Illinois Menopause Equity and Care Act. In doing so, Illinois has followed Rhode Island and Philadelphia, in including menopause-related conditions as a protected status under the…
Michael Geist Blog
Denial, Hate, and Silence: The Three Responses to Overwhelming Evidence of Canada’s Campus Antisemitism Crisis
One week ago, the release of the Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) report provided the most comprehensive national data to date on antisemitism on Canadian university campuses. As I…
The Employer Handbook Blog
Two Judges Just Volunteered to Kill a 50-Year-Old Discrimination Standard
An employee’s attempt to end fifty years of discrimination-law precedent went nowhere on appeal. But, two of the three judges who rejected it wrote separately to say they’d take another…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
FTC Abandons Disparate Impact Theory
By Chris Capurso, Brooke Conkle, Lori Sommerfield, Chris Willis
On August 7, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a policy statement announcing that it will no longer pursue claims based on disparate impact or “unfair discrimination” theories under any…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Feeling discriminated against is not the same as being discriminated against
An employee believes her boss treats her differently because of her race. She thinks she was intentionally excluded from a company photo because of her race. She believes coworkers were…