Topic
Systemic Discrimination
52 published works
Employment & Labor
Employers Beware – The EEOC’s FY 2011 EEOC Annual Performance And Accountability Report Confirms Its Focus On Systemic Discrimination Litigation
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Christopher DeGroff This past week the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its FY 2011 Performance and Accountability Report. The Report was posted on…
Texas Employment Law Update
Implicit Bias Science Interesting, But is it Predictive of Discriminatory Behavior?
Last week I was in Seattle attending the ABA's 5th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference. While there have been a number of interesting and informative sessions, I wanted pass along…
Employment & Labor
The EEOC’S Aggressive Year-End Litigation Salvo Reaches Coast-To-Coast
By Christopher J. DeGroff and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. When the EEOC approached Congress for its FY2011 and 2012 budgets, it repeatedly emphasized that it planned to file more lawsuits,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Selmi on Theorizing Systemic Disparate Treatment Law
Michael Selmi (George Washington) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming piece in the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law: Theorizing Systemic Disparate Treatment Law.Here is the abstract:The pattern or…
California Workplace Law Blog
Recent Developments Involving Systemic Discrimination
California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) Director Phyllis W. Cheng, speaking at the Jackson Lewis LLP-sponsored Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Labor and Employment Committee Meeting on Feb.…
Employment Discrimination Report
EEOC Focussing on More Lawsuits Alleging Company-Wide or Systemic Discrimination
The EEOC reported recently that while it is filing fewer lawsuits (11% per cent fewer than last year), it is using its increasing resources to aggressively attack "systemic" discrimination, or company-wide practices of discrimination. One particular…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Why Isn’t the EEOC Pursuing Better Consent Orders?
In my last post, I discussed the EEOC’s pursuit of systemicharassment cases and noted that they almost always settle with the entry of aconsent order. Today, I want totake a…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Systemic Harassment
Jason Bent (Smith & Bent, Chicago) has just posted on SSRN his article Systemic Harassment. This is a must-read article. Here's the abstract:Systemic employment discrimination cases, including private class actions…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
OFCCP Audits Focus on Systemic Discrimination
The OFCCP reports a record $51.7 million recovered for 22,251 workers. Of the recovery, 98% was collected for cases of systemic discrimination in the application process because of unlawful employment policy…
Lancaster Law Blog
OFCCP Audits Focus on Systemic Discrimination
The OFCCP reports coordination of EO Surveys with statistical analysis techniques to predict "systemic discrimination" in order to target its compliance audits. The result from using data from 3,723 establishments that responded to…