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In fiscal 2016, the number of federal harassment and discrimination charges rose for the second year straight, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). [...]

Since the 2016 election, you might be wondering: what’s the point of training managers to create respectful workplaces, when the tone at the top [...]

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 [...]