On April 29, 2015, in a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a circuit split in holding that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) attempts to conciliate a discrimination charge prior to filing a...more
The latest chapter in the ongoing saga of employment-related criminal background checks in the United States has been written, and one of the authors had some particularly strong words for the Equal Employment Opportunity...more
In This Issue:
- INTRODUCTION
..I. LOOKING BACK AT FY 2014: A REVIEW OF EEOC SUCCESSES AND FAILURES, AND SIGNIFICANT CASES AND DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH FOR IN FY 2015
..A. Key Statistics
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1/5/2015
/ Access To Justice ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Conciliation ,
Discrimination ,
Enforcement Statistics ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Harassment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
PDA ,
Popular ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Strategic Enforcement Plan ,
Wage and Hour
In this Report:
- Introduction
- Reflections On Fifty Years Of Title Vii Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 And Unsettled Issues Involving Systemic Claims And Class-Based Litigation By The EEOC
- Overview...more
In EEOC v. Mach Mining, LLC, the Seventh Circuit became the first federal circuit to foreclose an employer's ability to use the implied affirmative defense that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) failed to...more
In March 2010, an employer successfully persuaded the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to concede its disparate impact discrimination lawsuit against the employer based on its criminal record screening policies...more
6/17/2013
/ Background Checks ,
Consumer Reports ,
Credit History ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Criminal Records ,
Discrimination ,
Disparate Impact ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Investigations ,
Title VII