On March 31, 2022, a Kentucky jury unanimously awarded $450,000 to an employee, who was terminated following two panic attacks the employee suffered at work. The jury concluded the employee’s anxiety disorder was a disability...more
On March 11, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment, dismissing a Texas city employee’s claim that he had been unlawfully terminated from his job because of his age. The Fifth...more
4/5/2022
/ ADEA ,
Adverse Employment Action ,
Age Discrimination ,
Bias ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Evidence ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Summary Judgment ,
Title VII ,
Wrongful Termination
Louisiana employers should be aware of two new laws which went into effect on August 1, 2021. The first, Act 393, provides for reasonable accommodations of employees who become temporarily disabled due to certain...more
9/15/2021
/ Background Checks ,
Ban the Box ,
Conditional Job Offers ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Regulations ,
New Legislation ,
Pregnancy ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
State Labor Laws
Recent events and attendant social justice movements have thrust long-standing racial inequities into the spotlight and ignited a national and global conversation. That conversation has not only taken place in the streets,...more
10/27/2020
/ Affirmative Action ,
Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Bias ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Training ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Race Relations ,
Title VII
On April 3, 2020, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit in EEOC v. Vantage Energy Services, Inc., No. 19-20541, clarified its interpretation of the relate-back doctrine for administrative charges. The Fifth Circuit...more
4/16/2020
/ Administrative Procedure ,
Administrative Remedies ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Appeals ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dismissal With Prejudice ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Exhaustion Doctrine ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Relate Back Doctrine ,
Reversal ,
Technical Standards
New Orleans Mayor, Mitch Landrieu, has issued an executive order that bans questions about salary history during the application processes for City positions. The executive order is effective January 25, 2017 and is similar...more
In EEOC v. St. Joseph’s Hospital, the Eleventh Circuit recently held that the reasonable accommodation standard under the ADA “only requires an employer allow a disabled person to compete equally with the rest of the world...more
Louisiana is anticipated to become the latest state to enact state-wide protections for applicants with criminal backgrounds under the well-known “ban the box” movement. The bill, HB 266, recently passed both houses of the...more