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Posted 08-19-2014 On July 14, 2014, the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) issued its first enforcement guidance on pregnancy discrimination in more than 30 years. [...]

Posted 07-02-2014 Michael Barrett worked for Salt Lake County for 14 years. For years he’d received promotion after promotion, good review after good review. The [...]

Posted 06-10-2014 Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers with at least 15 employees are required to reasonably accommodate the sincere [...]

Posted 05-27-2014 Fifty years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it should be clear that remarks about lynching and the Ku Klux [...]

Posted 04-12-2014 My sister is a lifelong New York Mets fan. Good years and bad years alike, she goes to their games, watches them on [...]

 Posted 03-04-2014 Late last year, in a case that made national news, the retailing giant Abercrombie & Fitch finally seemed to throw in the towel [...]

Posted 02-17-2014 The opening of a recent federal appeals court opinion is startling: “The facts of this case should greatly concern every taxpaying citizen of the [...]

Posted 01-08-2014 Happy 2014 from all of us at Fair Measures! The new year has brought with it a number of important employment law changes [...]

 Posted 12-06-2013 One of the enjoyable things about being an employment lawyer is reading court opinions describing people acting oddly. Here’s one of the oddest: [...]

Posted 11-06-2013 Employees are eligible for various job-protected leaves of absence, as provided by federal and state laws. Reasons for leaves include but are not [...]