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Discrimination
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California Employment Law Update
Could “CEO Action Pledge” Lead to Unintended Consequences?
By Tony Oncidi
The #MeToo movement has propelled employers across the U.S. to look not only at their policies for dealing with discrimination and harassment but also at their efforts to hire and…
Wiley Executive Summary
Resident’s Three Claims Against Condo Association Spanning Multiple Years Deemed Single Claim Subject to Single Limit
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that three claims brought by a resident against a condominium owners’ association for alleged discrimination and retaliation…
Arbitration Nation
No Proof Blind Plaintiffs Aware Of Arbitration Clause, So Discrimination Class Action Proceeds In Court
By Liz Kramer
The First Circuit just faced a fascinating formation issue: if a customer cannot see what she is signing, and no employee reads it to her or ensures she knows there…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Bill 164: Amendments to the Ontario Human Rights Code
By Lisa Stam
Bill 164, introduced in October 2017, would expand the current prohibited grounds of discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code to include social condition, police records, genetic characteristics and immigration…
Family Law Prof Blog
Sexism Furore
By Family Law
From BBC News:The head of South Africa's civil engineering institution (Saice) has been sacked after he wrote that few women take up the profession because they are "more predisposed to…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
WIRTW #522 (the “back to school” edition)
If your kids go back to school and you don't post photographic evidence, does it count? View this post on Instagram First day of school: 7th and 4th grades. Also,…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Western District denies Summary Judgment
An engineer worked for Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or 23 years. Shiyan Jiang was never in any trouble until in 2014, he was assigned a new boss, Kim Wilson.…
Employment Law
Employers May Not Contractually Limit Substantive Rights and Remedies under New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination
On August 23, 2018, New Jersey’s intermediate appellate court in Roman v. Bergen Logistics, LLC et al., ruled that employers could not contractually limit the remedies available for successful employment…
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
New EEOC Miami Policy: No Opportunity For Employees To Respond
In the bad old days, after an employee filed a Charge of Discrimination, employers would file a position statement and then one of two things happened: either the investigator would…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Latino Ex-Employee Files Discrimination Claim Against Federation for American Immigration Reform
Scott Bixby at the Daily Beast reports on a claim of discrimination by an employee of a well-known immigration restriction group:"When Joe Gomez joined the Federation for American Immigration Reform…