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Here are articles on hot employment law issues that effect managers and supervisors in everyday work situations for your ongoing learning. To search by specific workplace issues, we have also organized these articles into a list of FAQs.
Managers’ emails to each other about an African-American employee were used to prove race discrimination in a recent case. According to the emails, the [...]
In October, 2016, the federal Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission issued a joint guidance for hiring managers, recruiters, and human resources personnel, [...]
The United States Supreme Court recently handed defendant employers a significant victory in discrimination and harassment suits filed under federal law. In CSRT Van Expedited, Inc. [...]
An employer that did not provide employees training on sexual harassment was ordered to go to trial by a federal court of appeals. The employee [...]
After 18 months of work examining the myriad and complex issues associated with harassment in the workplace, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Select Task [...]
Two recent cases make clear that employers can lose for retaliation, even if they win on the original discrimination or harassment case. In one case, [...]
Back in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that an employer may be liable for a constructive discharge. Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders, 542 U.S. [...]
Employers in California need to be aware of the State’s new amendments to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) regulations that went into [...]
Newly promoted supervisors may not know their legal responsibilities, and their new positions may go to their heads, which could have severe legal consequences. That’s [...]
One day at work, Jeffrey Smith saw another employee, Jim Leonard, come up behind a co-worker, grab the co-worker in the rear end, then sniff [...]