Topic
Discrimination
3,399 published works
Archer Employment Law
Severance Slip Ups – Some Critical Errors in Giving Out Severance Payments
In a world where layoffs and terminations are a possibility for any business, it is essential that employers understand some of the critical mistakes they could make when providing severance…
The Right Coast
Student Group Sues Yale for Discrimination, Revives Trump-Era Case – Washington Free Beacon
A student group filed suit against Yale University on the grounds that the school discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants, pressuring federal judges to pick up a similar case the…
Employment & Labor
A Peek Behind The Numbers: The EEOC’s Enforcement Statistics Show Fewer Charges Filed In 2020, While Recoveries Surged
By: Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Christopher DeGroff, Matthew J. Gagnon, and Alex S. Oxyer Seyfarth Synopsis: The EEOC recently released its enforcement and litigation statistics for Fiscal Year 2020. Notably, the statistics indicate that…
Lancaster Law Blog
The Fair Housing Act Will Enforce Prohibition on Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
On February 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it will begin to enforce the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation…
Global Workplace Insider
“Stale” and “ineffective” training is insufficient to establish the reasonable steps defence
A recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in Allay (UK) Limited v Mr S Gehlen provides useful guidance to employers seeking to rely on the “reasonable steps” defence…
Litigators at Work
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Petition Seeking to Scrap McDonnell Douglas Burden-Shifting Analysis
By Juliana C. Gaige, Michael J. DePonte
Arguing the decades-old analysis is no longer helpful to anyone, Reginald Sprowl petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to scrap application of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting analysis in Title VII race…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Thalidomide survivors sue federal government for discrimination
Group claims rights violated under sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Employment Law Worldview
EAT refuses to swallow stale discrimination training – keeping up the statutory defence (UK)
As a rule, an employer will be liable for the discriminatory acts of its employees towards each other unless it has taken all reasonable steps to prevent them doing that…
A Lawyer's Blog
ARBITRATION OF DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS
Wilson v. PBM, LLC, 2021 NY Slip Op 593 - NY: Appellate Div., 2nd Dept. February 3, 2021:"The plaintiff is an African-American male who was employed by the defendant PBM,…
California Employment Law Report
Conducting Workplace Investigations in California
Under California law, employers have a duty to investigate misconduct and take remedial action to prevent further discrimination or harassment from occurring in workplace. See Gov. Code section 12940 (j)(1)(k). …