The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released limited technical guidance on employer use of artificial intelligence (AI) in hiring, promotion, and firing decisions, extending principles long-applied to...more
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Among the topics during this year’s general session are a...more
9/29/2022
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A federal jury in North Carolina awarded a former health executive $10 million in punitive damages after finding that his race and gender—white and male—were motivating factors in his ex-employer’s decision to fire him...
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On June 14, 2021, the long-awaited decision was issued by the Colorado Supreme Court in Nieto v. Clark’s Market. The Colorado Supreme Court has now definitively ruled that under the Colorado Wage Claim Act employers must pay...more
A bill introduced last week in the Colorado House of Representatives would make it an unfair employment practice under Colorado’s Antidiscrimination Act (CADA) for an employer to seek earnings history for job applicants....more
4/18/2018
/ Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Pay Gap ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Salary/Wage History ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
The Ninth Circuit overturned its own precedent yesterday and ruled that employers cannot justify a pay disparity between men and women by relying on employees’ past salaries. Rizo v. Yovino, No. 16-15372 (9th Cir. Apr. 9,...more
Attorney General Jeff Sessions informed U.S. Attorneys and federal agencies on Wednesday that Title VII does not protect gender identity as a status. Noting that the position was a “conclusion of law, not policy,” Sessions...more
10/6/2017
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Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
In a decision that was more a commentary on the sufficiency of the EEOC's expert witness than a victory for employers' hiring practices, a federal court in Ohio dismissed the EEOC's challenge to Kaplan Higher Learning...more
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) requires an employer to return a military veteran-employee to the "position of employment" he or she would have been in had the employee not left to...more