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Labor and Employment Blog
President Biden Targets Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Discrimination Through Executive Order
By Lauren Honea
Labor and Employment Blog President Biden Targets Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Discrimination Through Executive OrderFebruary 11, 2021 Amongst the flurry of other recent executive orders and administrative directives during…
California Workplace Law Blog
Ask A Litigator: What Should Be In An Employee’s Personnel File?
Current and former employees have a right to inspect their personnel file at reasonable times. So, when a current or former employee intends to bring or has brought a claim…
Religion Clause
Jewish Camps Sue County Claiming Discrimination
Suit was filed last week in a New York federal district court by an Orthodox Jewish organization that operates two summer camps in the Catskill Mountains. The complaint (full text)…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Bills Introduced in Congress for the Final Push for the Equal Rights Amendment
By Tracy Thomas
Carrie Baker, "Completing the Work of Our Foremothers": The Final Push for the ERAWith [Biden and Harris] in the White House, I’m hopeful that we can finally complete the work…
Health Law Prof Blog
Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in Health Care
Sharona Hoffman (Case Western Reserve University), Andy Podgurski (Case Western Reserve University), Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in Health Care, 19(3) Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 1 (2020):Artificial intelligence…
UK Human Rights Blog
Universal Credit childcare payment system indirectly discriminates against women
R (Salvato) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2021] EWHC 102 (Admin) As any working parent will tell you, childcare is expensive. Unlike in some other European countries,…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Executive Orders Impact Federal Agencies and Government Contractors
By J. Marshall Horton, Robert T. Dumbacher, Christy E. Kiely
Since taking office, President Biden has issued Executive Orders covering topics from climate change to mask mandates. Some of these new Executive Orders are aimed at eliminating discrimination and promoting…
ADA Update
Do Zoning Laws Discriminate Against People with Disabilities?
By Maia Goodell
Zoning laws can pose serious barriers to people with disabilities and their organizations. Setback codes block building ramps. Rules forbidding people who are not related from living together in residential…
The Right Coast
Justice Department drops lawsuit alleging Yale discriminated against white and Asian applicants
The Justice Department dropped a case against Yale University that accused the Ivy League school of discriminating against white and Asian applicants in its admissions process. The Biden administration decision…
Regulatory Oversight
Virginia AG’s New Office of Civil Rights Will Scrutinize Business Activities in 2021
By Chris Carlson, Bonnie Gill, Ashley L. Taylor, Jr.
On January 5, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced the creation of a new Office of Civil Rights, which will expand and replace the existing Division of Human Rights…