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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.
A June 2018 report on sexual harassment was released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Two years in the making, it [...]
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) turned 50 this summer, and to celebrate this milestone, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued [...]
You know that employers are not liable for harassment if they take all steps necessary to prevent harassment and respond to complaints. A new [...]
Okay—here’s the fact pattern: Pregnant employee calls in sick with back pain, is fired four days later, and is replaced by a man. Sounds [...]
“Ban the Box” laws prohibit employers from asking about criminal convictions at all until much later in the hiring process. It has been widely [...]
With celebrity #MeToo complaints going back 30 years, and Bill Cosby being tried for an assault 14 years ago, managers may be wondering how [...]
If you’re a regular eNews reader, you’ll remember our discussion last fall about the Google memo. You know, the one where the Google engineer [...]
The EEOC, the federal agency responsible for preventing sexual harassment, recently recommended that training programs should include a discussion of workplace values like respect, [...]
A nationwide class action filed in federal court in California charges that hundreds of employers around the country, including T-Mobile, Amazon.com, Cox Communications, Inc., [...]
A manager recently asked me about the sexual assaults by Charlie Rose and Louis CK. He said, “I don’t get why they did those [...]