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Discrimination
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Workforce Compliance Insights
Are Your Employment Practices Setting You Up for a Discrimination Claim?
Read more about this in an article I wrote, published by FSR Magazine on April 18, 2017, which is intended to help leaders within the restaurant industry understand the employee…
HR Law Talk
A New Fee-Shifting Trend In Employer Discrimination Cases?
In an article published by Law360, Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Tim Garrett provided insight on the continued increase in employment discrimination lawsuits, which may be due in part to…
Global Workplace Insider
Indirect Discrimination in the UK – What must a Claimant Prove?
The Supreme Court in the UK has given its decision in the conjoined cases of Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency) and Naeem v Secretary of State for Justice,…
Labor & Employment Law Navigator
Sexual Orientation Discrimination Deemed Illegal Under Federal Law
By Brian Kelly
Yes, federal law prohibits employers from discriminating against employees and applicants based on their sexual orientation. Yes, employers who allow discrimination or harassment based on sexual orientation can be forced…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Google Pay Discrimination Case
By Tracy Thomas
Google Accused of "Extreme" Pay Discrimination by US Labor DepartmentGoogle has discriminated against its female employees, according to the US Department of Labor (DoL), which said it had evidence of…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Cloaking: Public Policy and Pregnancy
By Tracy Thomas
Julie Manning Magid, Cloaking: Public Policy and Pregnancy, 53 Amer. Bus.L.J. 439 (2016) Long before J.K. Rowling wrote about an invisibility cloak that allowed Harry Potter and his friends to disguise their…
Employment Law Matters
Title IX may provide legal basis for sexual harassment claims.
The 3d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may have expanded the mechanisms available for individuals who plan to bring claims of sexual harassment or discrimination against an employer that conducts…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Western District Rejects Same Actor Inference
There are various constructs which serve to limit access to juries for discrimination victims. One of those constructs is the so-called "same actor inference." The same actor inference provides that…
Employment Law Worldview
Treading the thin line between incompetence and discrimination
In a boost to the cause of inept line management everywhere, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held last month that it is not permissible to extrapolate without more from conduct which…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Is “Gender” the Same thing as “Sex” Discrimination?
By Tracy Thomas
Renee Blocher, Sex Discrimination, Plain and Simple: A Corpus Analysis From the Abstract:“Sex” and “gender” are words that are often used interchangeably, but some argue that these terms have distinct…