The New EEOC Guidelines on Workplace Harassment
What's the Tea in L&E? Supervisor Liability: What Managers Need To Know
DOL’s Expanded Overtime Salary Limits, EEOC’s Sexual Harassment Guidance, NY’s Mandatory Paid Prenatal Leave - Employment Law This Week®
What's the Tea in L&E? One Time Too Many: What is “Severe” Conduct?
Effective Harassment Trainings: Best Approaches With Insights from NCIS — Hiring to Firing Podcast
What's the Tea in L&E? Truth Hurts or Rumors? Lizzo’s Harassment Allegations Serve As A Good Reminder
Middle East Conflict Impact on the Healthcare Workplace: An HR Perspective
#WorkforceWednesday: Major Updates to New York State’s Model Sexual Harassment Prevention Policy - Employment Law This Week®
Predatory Behavior Alleged Against OSHA Addressed During Orange County Board of Education Board Meeting Led by Greg Rolen
The Speak Out Act and Compliance Programs
#WorkforceWednesday: Speak Out Act Takes Effect, Enhanced Data Privacy Obligations for California Employers, and SEC Releases Whistleblower Annual Report - Employment Law This Week®
Consensual With Consequences: Breaking Company Policies Without Breaking the Law
Burr Broadcast September 20, 2022
#WorkforceWednesday: Return-to-Work Behavior Policies, U.S. Soccer's Landmark Agreement, and Board Diversity in California - Employment Law This Week®
Hot Spots in Employment Law 2022
#WorkforceWednesday: New Law on Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Claims, Cyber War Ramps Up, Salaried Nonexempt Status - Employment Law This Week®
Employment Law Now VI-114-Banning Arbitration of Sexual Harassment/Assault Claims
Update and Discussion on Legal and Practical Issues
DE Under 3: OFCCP Contractor Portal & Request for Comments for Functional Affirmative Action Programs (FAAPs)
Labor & Employment Symposium - Topic: Taking a Deeper Dive into Enhanced Sexual Harassment Laws in Texas
From the day the #MeToo movement went viral on social media more than seven years ago, it has sparked critical discussions about sexual harassment, assault, and abuse in all corners of industries, communities, and cultures....more
What’s the Tea in L&E is a video series focused on the latest trends and updates in labor and employment law. In this short video, WRVB labor and employment attorneys Leah Stiegler and Emily Kendall Chowhan discuss what...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: A pending bill in New Jersey’s legislature would significantly lower the standard for establishing harassment claims and require employers to implement anti-harassment training and policies and report...more
In this episode of the Hiring to Firing Podcast, Partners Tracey Diamond and Evan Gibbs draw insights from the TV series NCIS to discuss effective workplace harassment training. Our hosts are joined by Victoria Pasquale,...more
New York State recently enacted laws to further restrict the use of nondisclosure agreements in connection with resolution of employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims and extend the statute of limitations...more
The state of Texas is experiencing some Texas-size changes in discrimination and harassment law, including changes to where claims can be filed, who can sue whom, and what standards are used. Join Houston office managing...more
On August 7, 2023, Colorado’s Protecting Opportunities and Workers’ Rights (POWR) Act takes effect, significantly shifting the power balance toward employees....more
An advisory jury’s substantial front pay award to a plaintiff in a retaliation case was drastically reduced by the judge....more
Chicago updated its sexual harassment laws with the passage of Ordinance 2022-665, increasing protections for employees working in the city. Previous guidance stated that the update only applied to employers that aligned with...more
For New York employers, the standards for sexual harassment may be shifting. The state requires all employers to adopt its model sex harassment policy or craft one that equals or exceeds minimum standards. Recently, the New...more
As previously outlined in our Illinois employment law roundup, the deadline is fast approaching for completion of Chicago’s additional sexual harassment and bystander training requirements. The new law requires employers to...more
This week, the Court addresses whether offensive music can create a hostile work environment and considers when individual photos in a database constitute a “compilation” for purposes of copyright infringement damages. ...more
The New York State Department of Labor (DOL) recently released updates to the state’s model sexual harassment prevention materials, including its model sexual harassment policy as well as its model sexual harassment...more
The Chicago Human Rights Ordinance makes it a civil rights violation “[f]or any employer, employee, agent of any employer, employment agency or labor organization to engage in sexual harassment.” Municipal Code of Chicago,...more
The New York State Department of Labor (the “NYSDOL”) recently updated its Model Sexual Harassment Policy for all employers. The NYSDOL also released an updated model training slide presentation and training video. As a...more
On April 11, 2023, the New York State Department of Labor (“NYDOL”) released its updates to the State’s model sexual harassment prevention policy and published updated training materials for New York employers on preventing...more
The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) recently released final—and significant—substantive changes to New York State’s model sexual harassment prevention policy (the “Final Updated Model Policy”) and related...more
The recently amended Chicago Human Rights Ordinance requires all Chicago employers to provide the following anti-harassment trainings on an annual basis: •One hour of sexual harassment prevention training for all employees-...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: New York State released a revised model sexual harassment policy highlighting a lower legal threshold for conduct to constitute sexual harassment under the New York Human Rights Law and emphasizing through...more
On April 11, 2023, the New York State Department of Labor, in collaboration with the New York State Division of Human Rights, released an updated model anti-sexual harassment policy and an updated model training....more
The New York State Department of Labor (“DOL”) has released its long-awaited updated model sexual harassment prevention policy that addresses issues such as gender identity, remote work, and bystander intervention. As we...more
On January 12, 2023, the New York State Department of Labor (the "NYSDOL"), in consultation with the New York State Division of Human Rights (the "NYSDHR"), released a proposed Sexual Harassment Prevention Model Policy aimed...more
On Jan. 12, 2023, the New York State Department of Labor (DOL), in consultation with the New York State Division of Human Rights, released a revised sexual harassment prevention model policy for public review and comment. The...more
The New York State Department of Labor recently issued a proposed updated model Sexual Harassment Prevention Policy (the “Proposed Policy”) to replace the original model policy issued approximately four years ago under New...more
The Speak Out Act (“Act”) became law on December 7, 2022. The Act prohibits the enforcement of non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions which are agreed to prior to an allegation of sexual assault or sexual harassment...more