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Discrimination
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The Right Coast
NLRB lawyer creates legal conflicts in bad advice about Damore retaliation claim by Jerome Woehrle
You can object to your employer s diversity policy as being discrimination but not if you point to scientific research explaining why it is not needed to remedy discrimination against…
Employment Law Worldview
How deaf is too deaf? – Chief Constable of Norfolk v Coffey
Ruled upon by the EAT at the end of last year, Coffey marks a significant but ultimately unsurprising precedent in terms of perceived disability cases in the UK. The case…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Pilot Study Shows Challenges of Redressing Sexual Harassment of Low-Income Women in Housing
By Tracy Thomas
Rigel Christine Oliveri, Sexual Harassment of Low-Income Women in Housing: Pilot Study ResultsAbstract:Sparked by the #metoo movement, we are once again having an important national discussion about the prevalence of sexual…
The Faculty Lounge
The Supreme Court and the Olympic Games
The 23rd Olympic Winter Games began Friday in Pyeongchang, South Korea and for the next two weeks the Olympics will be inescapable. Ubiquitous though the term “Olympic” may seem in…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Supreme Court’s New Approach to Pregnancy Discrimination and Pregnancy as a Normal Condition of Employment
By Tracy Thomas
Reva Siegel, Pregnancy as a Normal Condition of Employment: Comparative and Role-Based Accounts of Discrimination, William & Mary L. Rev (forthcoming)As the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA) turns forty, it…
The Right Coast
Lawsuit Exposes Internet Giant s Internal Culture of Intolerance – Quillette
James Damore, the former Google engineer who was fired last summer after authoring a document questioning the company s diversity policies, has filed a lawsuit against the company. In a…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Many Hurdles to Legal Remedies for Sexual Harassment
By Tracy Thomas
Legal Remedies for Sexual Harassment are Few and Far BetweenDespite the torrent of attention being paid to sexual harassment and discrimination, the legal system in place to respond to related claims…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The 11th Circuit’s Take on Workplace Bans Against Black Women’s Natural Hair as Discrimination
By Tracy Thomas
D. Wendy Greene, Splitting Hairs: The 11th Circuit's Take on Workplace Bans Against Black Women's Natural Hair in EEOC v. Catastrophe, 71 Miami L. Rev. (2017)What does hair have to do…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Federal Employees Wait Years for an EEOC Judge
For federal employees, they have a different process to trial. A federal employee can file a verbal complaint with his/her local EEO office. The employee must make that initial contact…
The Right Coast
French PM: We’re facing a new form of anti-Semitism – Israel National News
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe warned on Wednesday his country is facing a new form of anti-Semitism marked by violence, The Associated Press reported.His comments came following an assault this…