After the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace – its first in decades – it is facing state Attorney General opposition....more
6/27/2024
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Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Civil Rights Act ,
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Gender Discrimination ,
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Hostile Environment ,
LGBTQ ,
Risk Management ,
Separation of Powers ,
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII
Take the Cure: New California Law Permits Corrections of Wage Statement Violations -
Why it matters:
Employers may want to review their wage statements after Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law that permits them...more
10/19/2015
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Bias ,
Confidential Information ,
Conflicts of Interest ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Email ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Retention ,
Employee Training ,
Employees ,
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Gender Discrimination ,
Governor Brown ,
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Hostile Environment ,
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Internships ,
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NLRB ,
Primary Beneficiary Test ,
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) ,
Protected Class ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Right To Cure ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Summary Judgment ,
Supervisors ,
Title VII ,
Unpaid Interns ,
Verizon ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Statements
FTC Offers Employers Lesson in FCRA Compliance—And Limited Exceptions -
Why it matters:
A California employer recently received a lesson in Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compliance from the Federal Trade...more
10/5/2015
/ Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Background Checks ,
Ban the Box ,
Barnes and Noble ,
Conditional Job Offers ,
Confidentiality Agreements ,
Consent ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Dodd-Frank ,
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Chance Act ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Equity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Individual Accountability ,
Internal Reporting ,
Job Applicants ,
Judicial Review ,
Mach Mining v EEOC ,
Notice Requirements ,
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Remand ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Split of Authority ,
Title VII ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
White Collar Crimes ,
Yates Memorandum
DOL Proposes Major Overhaul of Overtime Rules:
Why it matters -
Expanding the scope of employees eligible for overtime, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited new rules revising the white collar...more
7/23/2015
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Class Certification ,
Classification ,
Comment Period ,
Conciliation ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Rights ,
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Fox Searchlight Pictures ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Internships ,
IRS ,
Mach Mining v EEOC ,
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Non-Exempt Employees ,
NPRM ,
Over-Time ,
Primary Beneficiary Test ,
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Reasonable Accommodation ,
Section 6722 ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Tax Penalties ,
Trade Preferences Extension Act (TPEA) ,
Unpaid Interns ,
W-2 ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
LinkedIn Search Doesn’t Implicate FCRA, California Court Rules -
Why it matters:
Granting LinkedIn’s motion to dismiss, a federal court judge in California held that LinkedIn users could not sue the site for...more
4/30/2015
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Gender Discrimination ,
H-1B ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LinkedIn ,
Social Media ,
Telecommuting ,
Transgender ,
USCIS ,
Visas
California Jury Awards Record $185M Verdict to Female Employee -
Why it matters: A California jury made national headlines and terrified employers across the country when it awarded $185 million in punitive damages...more