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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.
Effective March 3, 2022, employers can no longer require employees to arbitrate claims of sexual harassment or sexual assault. On March [...]
After 25 years at the Chicago Park District and a number of promotions, Lydia Vega was fired in 2012 for [...]
Can an employer be liable for discrimination if an employee’s subordinate harbors the discriminatory bias? When an employee brings a [...]
In what the New York Times described as “one of the largest claw backs in the history of corporate America”, [...]
Even in 2021, racial harassment still persists in the workplace. In fiscal year 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [...]
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Department of Labor (DOL), and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have announced [...]
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently filed two lawsuits in Texas against two companies the EEOC says discriminated [...]
It’s been compared to Shakespearean tragedy: the dizzying plunge of Andrew Cuomo from the Emmy-winning “America’s governor” during the darkest [...]
Last month we told you about Mary Richter, a middle school science teacher who sustained injuries at work after requesting, [...]
Traditionally, an adverse employment action—getting disciplined or fired, being denied a raise or promotion, for example—has been a necessary part [...]