The Supreme Court is set to shake up the workplace world by taking away a great deal of power from federal agencies – including the regulators who oversee many of the nation’s labor and employment laws. That’s according to...more
2/2/2024
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Affirmative Action ,
Age Discrimination ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Chevron Deference ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRB ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Quickie Election Rules ,
SCOTUS ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday withdrew its 1997 policy statement that had disapproved of the practice of requiring workers to enter into arbitration agreements to resolve workplace discrimination...more
12/18/2019
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
Mandatory Arbitration Clauses ,
Title VII
Taking a three-year look back at the Supreme Court’s workplace law decisions gives you the sense that the exciting cases only come down every other year. In the ho-hum term that ended in 2017, the Court handled relatively...more
10/7/2019
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Age Discrimination ,
But For Causation ,
DACA ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Gender Identity ,
LGBTQ ,
Race Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Statute of Limitations ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Trump Administration