Topic
Discrimination
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Religion Clause
Consulting Firm Challenges City’s Ban On Discrimination Based on Political Belief
A suit was filed in a Michigan federal district court this week challenging the constitutionality of the Ann Arbor (MI) non-discrimination ordinance that, among other things, bars discrimination based on…
World of Employment
California Supreme Court Confirms that the “anti-SLAPP” Statute Applies to Claims of Discrimination and Retaliation
Prior to the California Supreme Court’s decision in Wilson vs. Cable News Network, Inc., California Courts of Appeal were split on whether California’s anti-SLAPP statute applied to an employee’s claims…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Increasing Use of Anonymous Pseudonyms in Sexual Harassment Cases
By Tracy Thomas
Erin Mulvaney & Hassan Kanu, Anonymous Workplace Harassment Suits Double in #MeToo EraThe workers wanted to hold their former employers accountable for alleged harassment and discrimination. What they feared was…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
IRS Updates Bob Jones Revenue Procedure: Rev. Proc. 2019-22
Flash! After Bob Jones, the Service issued Revenue Procedure 75-50, explaining that private schools seeking to acquire or maintain charitable tax exemption must have and publicize a racially nondiscriminatory policy…
Emery Law Blog
Retaliation for Supporting Another’s Claim of Discrimination is Illegal
By Ethan White
Unlawful workplace retaliation can take many forms, and an employee may even have a claim for activity outside of work. For example, as explained by the EEOC in his June…
Jeffrey J Kmoch Blog
The Workplace Transparency Act Expands Protects for Illinois Workers
On June 2, 2019, both houses of the Illinois legislature passed Senate Bill 75, the Workplace Transparency Act (“WTA”), and Governor Pritzker is expected to sign the bill into law…
Simple Justice
The Color of Judges
When I was in law school interviewing for jobs, I learned that there were Jewish firms and non-Jewish firms. It was worthwhile interviewing with the former. The latter, not so…
Carmody @ Work
Changes to Connecticut’s Harassment and Discrimination Laws
By Alan H. Bowie, Jr., Nick Zaino
Last month, Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act 19-16 (and certain amendments to that Act contained in Public Act 19-93), widely referred to as the “Time’s Up Act.”…
San Francisco Employment Law Firm Blog
Criticizing An Employee’s Foreign Accent May Be Evidence of Discrimination
By Arkady Itkin
Discrimination on the basis of an employee’s foreign accent is a sufficient basis for finding national origin discrimination. Fragante v. Honolulu (9th Cir. 1989) Indeed, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
Simple Justice
Voter In The Middle
The efforts to argue “in fairness” to Trump fall, as they should, on deaf ears. His “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which…