In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the standards for balancing an employee’s religious accommodation request against the potential undue hardship that such a request may impose...more
5/23/2023
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Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Petition For Rehearing ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
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Religious Discrimination ,
School Districts ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Undue Hardship
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the standards for balancing an employee’s religious accommodation request against the potential undue hardship that such a request may impose...more
4/25/2023
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Failure to Accommodate ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Resignation ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Undue Hardship
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the requirements that must be met for an employee to identify a similarly situated comparator for purposes of a Title VII claim. Gamble v. FCA...more
5/25/2021
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Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
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Employment Policies ,
Internal Investigations ,
Protected Class ,
Race Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Similarly Situated ,
Termination ,
Title VII
In a recent opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed that a multi-month leave of absence is not a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)....more
Valid arbitration agreements may prevent class notices from being sent to employees that would otherwise be putative class members in collective action lawsuits according to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Bigger v....more
On October 29, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in Shell v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company that the Americans with Disabilities Act’s (ADA) definition of “disability” is not met “where an employer...more
On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Fort Bend County v. Davis that Title VII’s administrative exhaustion requirement is a claims-processing requirement, not a jurisdictional requirement, which means...more
7/1/2019
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Amended Complaints ,
Appeals ,
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Exhaustion Doctrine ,
Fort Bend County Texas v Davis ,
Jurisdictional Requirements ,
Mandatory Claim-Processing Rules ,
SCOTUS ,
Time-Barred Claims ,
Title VII ,
Waiver Rule