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Ogletree Deakins Insights
The New ‘Race and Sex Stereotyping’ Executive Order Affecting Federal Contractors
By Publisher, Leigh M. Nason, Lauren B. Hicks, Bonnie Puckett, Katrina Grider
On September 22, 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping.” The executive order follows a September 4, 2020, memorandum from…
PrawfsBlawg
Proving anti-Jewish discrimination
Main Sunday, September 27, 2020Proving anti-Jewish discriminationEugene Volokh unearths a 10-year-old S.D.N.Y. decision in an action alleging co-workers in a government job referred to him as a "dumb Jew" or…
Dykema Labor & Employment Law Blog
10 Things You Should Know About the EEOC’s COVID-19 Guidance
By Dykema
The EEOC has been regularly updating its Technical Assistance Questions and Answers entitled “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws.” This…
Religion Clause
EEOC Sues On Behalf of Employees Who Refuse To Wear Company Aprons That Contain Rainbow Emblem
The EEOC announced yesterday that it has filed suit against a Conway, Arkansas Kroger store charging that it violated Title VII when it disciplined and then discharged two women employees…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Eleventh Circuit Holds that Title IX Protects Transgender Students
By Tracy Thomas
Federal Appeals Court: Title IX Protects Transgender StudentsThe United States Supreme Court's historic June 15 decision about LGBTQ workers' rights had its first impact on how courts define sex discrimination at colleges. The…
Health Care Law Matters
Federal Court Holding Reminds Providers to Address Gender Identity Discrimination in Workplace
In 2016, the Obama Administration issued a regulation implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (the 2016 Rule), which redefined sex discrimination to include termination of pregnancy and gender…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
New Book: Islamophobia and the Law
By SpearIt
This is a new book, Islamophobia and the Law (Cambridge University Press 2020), edited by Cyra Akila Choudhury and Khaled Beydoun. Here is the description:Islamophobia and the Law is a…
Employment Class and Collective Action Update
EEOC: A “Pattern and Practice” is Not a Standalone Basis to Sue
By Stephanie L. Adler-Paindiris, David R. Golder, Eric R. Magnus, Paul Patten
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued an opinion letter clarifying its authority to bring “pattern and practice” lawsuits under § 707(a) of Title VII of the Civil…
PrawfsBlawg
Bostock, Cline, and the SCOTUS’s Repression of Textualism’s Unresolvable Contradictions
Main Thursday, September 10, 2020Bostock, Cline, and the SCOTUS's Repression of Textualism's Unresolvable ContradictionsThis week in “Legislation and the Regulatory State,” I taught General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. v. Cline…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
The EEOC Scales Back its Own Enforcement Powers through Clarification of its Interpretation of Pattern or Practice Case Requirements
By J. Marshall Horton, Kevin J. White
While most EEOC enforcement actions are related to individual complaints of discrimination and/or retaliation, so-called “pattern or practice” matters are those in which the EEOC attempts to show that an…