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Many employers and HR professionals are trained and ready to handle requests for accommodation by employees, including understanding the obligation to engage in an [...]

In the #MeToo environment, good employers are committed to giving fair hearings to victims of sexual harassment. But a recent court decision makes clear [...]

More than 30 years ago, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled that harassment that is ''sufficiently severe or pervasive'' to create a hostile or [...]

Managers in our programs sometimes ask, “If African-American employees call their African-American friends at work ‘nigga,’ are they welcoming someone else using the N-word?” [...]

In 2018, both internal harassment complaints and formal harassment charges filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) increased sharply. The EEOC reported [...]

About one year ago, the California Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on the employment world by dramatically re-defining what is required to establish independent [...]

The internet has been buzzing since Lucy Flores, a former candidate for Nevada Lieutenant Governor, recounted an incident with then-Vice President Joe Biden. According [...]

Ramona DeBra was a teller for JP Morgan Chase for 18 years. For the first 17 years, she received “meets expectations” reviews, despite the [...]

Recent news about two Virginia political leaders wearing “blackface” in the 1980s might leave the impression that such behavior is a thing of the [...]

It’s happening all around the country. In the wake of #MeToo, states and cities have upped the requirements for harassment prevention training, with four states [...]