Discrimination, Local Ordinance

Pittsburgh to Limit Employers’ Ability to Drug-Test Medical Marijuana Patients

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/1/2024

The Pittsburgh City Council unanimously passed an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against medical marijuana patients in the workplace and limiting certain types of marijuana drug testing by employers as to these...more

New York City Prohibits Provisions Shortening Statutes of Limitations for Complaints and Civil Actions Related to Discrimination,...

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/6/2024

The New York City Council recently amended Sections 8-109 and 8-502 of the New York City Administrative Code, directly affecting employment agreements. ...more

San Francisco Releases Generative AI Guidelines for City Workers

Epstein Becker & Green on 2/21/2024

On December 11, 2023, the City of San Francisco released the San Francisco Generative AI Guidelines (“Guidelines”). The Guidelines set forth parameters for City employees, contractors, consultants, volunteers, and vendors...more

Charlotte City Council Considers Nondiscrimination Ordinance

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 8/2/2021

Charlotte is considering passing an ordinance that would extend nondiscrimination protections to employees of businesses with 14 or less employees. On July 26, 2021, Charlotte’s City Attorney sent a memo to the Mayor and City...more

Philadelphia Enacts Amendments to and Expands Coverage of its Background Screening Ordinances

Littler on 1/27/2021

For years, Philadelphia has maintained ordinances substantially restricting employers’ use of criminal record and credit histories in employment screening. These regulations are in addition to, not in lieu of, the federal...more

Portland City Council Bans Use of Facial Recognition Technology

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/14/2020

On September 9, 2020, the Portland, Oregon City Council voted unanimously to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the city government, including the police department, following similar actions by the cities of...more

Are “Fair Chance” Housing Ordinances an Unconstitutional Infringement on Landlords’ Rights?

Cozen O'Connor on 4/7/2020

We continue to monitor legislation affecting the residential landlord-tenant relationship and note here that “fair chance” housing ordinances are emerging in cities across the nation, including Seattle, Minneapolis, and...more

Head’s Up: Increased Risk of Consumer Class Actions With Growing Trend of Local Restrictions on Reporting and Considering...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/11/2020

On January 21, 2020, the Oakland City Council unanimously passed the Fair Chance Housing Ordinance (“FCHO”), which will restrict landlords in their ability to reject a potential tenant because of prior criminal history. It...more

WPI State of the States – What did the Voters Decide?

Littler on 12/3/2018

The November mid-term elections resulted in some significant power shifts at the state level. Six states (Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, and New York) that had been politically divided now enjoy a Democratic...more

New York City To Require Lactation Rooms In The Workplace

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/29/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: Recently passed “Mother’s Day bills” will require employers to provide lactation rooms to employees expressing milk and to implement a policy informing employees about the right to a lactation room and...more

And Now The Bad News: Avalanche of California Bills Continues to Advance

Fisher Phillips on 6/1/2018

As we discussed in our last blog post, California employers received some rare good news in recent days. Bills to expand California’s paid sick leave requirement and to require employers to accommodate medical marijuana use...more

Wisconsin Law Prohibits Local Regulation of Several Employment Issues, Does Not Preempt Discrimination Ordinances

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/8/2018

On April 16, 2018, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed an amended version of 2017 Assembly Bill 748, thereby declaring a number of employment issues to be matters of statewide concern and therefore beyond the scope of...more

The Bubbler – February 2018

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 2/8/2018

Now that January has come to an end, and we’ve navigated compliance with our own resolutions and employment obligations (as discussed on our latest post on The Bubbler), we’re going to take a look at a few topics of...more

San Francisco Regulators Provide Anticipated Guidance For Lactation Ordinance

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/6/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: In June 2017, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance requiring employers to provide a private “lactation location” where new mothers can pump their milk as well as a “lactation break”...more

Alabama Employers Take Note – Birmingham Joins Ranks of Cities with an Anti-Discrimination Ordinance

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 10/20/2017

Last month, the Birmingham City Council passed an ordinance criminalizing discrimination in education, housing, employment, and public accommodations. The ordinance not only prohibits discrimination based on the federally...more

Client Alert: Eleventh Circuit Declines to Reconsider Sexual Orientation Discrimination Decision; Plaintiff Will Appeal to U.S....

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 7/25/2017

In April, we reported that a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit held that sexual orientation discrimination is not prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital, et....more

New Law Combats Wage Theft by Granting Local Governments Subpoena Power

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 9/16/2016

In response to the increasing number of cities and counties that have enacted minimum wage ordinances setting wage rates at levels higher than state and federal requirements, last year Assembly Bill 970 was added to the Labor...more

Beyond the Bathroom: North Carolina’s H.B. 2 Also Flushes Local Employee Protections

K&L Gates LLP on 4/12/2016

The recent enactment of North Carolina’s H.B. 2, known as the “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act” (the “Act”) has received widespread attention for its controversial restrictions on the use of certain...more

New York City “Bans the Box”—Inquiries Into Applicants’ Criminal Histories Now Significantly Restricted

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation on 6/15/2015

On June 10, 2015, the New York City Council passed the Fair Chance Act (the “Act”), which prohibits employers from inquiring into the criminal backgrounds of applicants in the initial stages of the employment application...more

New Legislation Promises More Investigations by the New York City Commission on Human Rights

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/1/2015

On April 20, 2015, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed two new bills into law that authorize the New York City Commission on Human Rights to increase the number of employment discrimination investigations. ...more

The High Court Hears Argument: Is Gilbert’s Sign Ordinance Content-Neutral? What Standard of Review Should Apply?

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/16/2015

Last summer, we reported that the U.S. Supreme Court granted Good News Community Church’s (Church) petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Reed v. Town of...more

Miami-Dade County Expands its Human Rights Law to Ban Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Gender Expression

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 12/4/2014

On December 2, 2014, Miami-Dade County Commission amended the County’s Human Rights Ordinance (Chapter 11A of the Code of Ordinances of Miami Dade County, Florida) to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and...more

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