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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

Rightsizing Reshapes the Legal Industry for the first half of 2024

Leopard Solutions on 8/8/2024

A wave of rightsizing is washing over the legal industry, according to a new mid-year analysis by Leopard Solutions. Following a period of rapid growth, law firms are now prioritizing efficiency and profitability, leading to...more

Navigating the Complex Terrain of DEI in the Legal Industry

Leopard Solutions on 2/9/2024

In a recent exposé titled "America is Under Attack: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade, " The New York Times unveiled a conservative movement aiming to challenge the progressive agenda in public higher learning institutions. This...more

Diversity in Law: Expressed through Geography

Leopard Solutions on 12/21/2023

Ever since a watershed ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States effectively gutted affirmative action protections, the question of how to advance the cause of equal opportunity for underrepresented groups has been...more

Supreme Court Debates U.S. Government’s Race and Ethnicity Categories: What Employers Need to Know

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/21/2023

On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down affirmative action in college admissions, leaving employers to wrestle with the implications of the decision for various diversity, equity, and inclusion...more

Diversity, Equity, and inclusion (DEI) in Need of Focus

Leopard Solutions on 6/21/2023

There has been much reporting that despite law firms' efforts in enhancing their diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) initiatives, the results are mixed across firms. The industry has historically suffered from a lack of...more

Employment Flash - April 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/14/2023

In our latest edition of Employment Flash, we examine developments over the past three months, including the NLRB’s ruling regarding employees’ labor law rights in severance agreements, a Supreme Court decision that upheld...more

EEOC and DOL Unveil HIRE Initiative to Advance Equal Opportunity at Work

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 1/20/2022

Experts Discuss How Federal Agencies Can Help Remove Barriers and Open Doors in Recruitment and Hiring for Underrepresented Workers - WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S....more

California’s Fair Pay Act Expanded to Include Race & Ethnicity

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/5/2016

California’s Fair Pay Act, already the broadest in the nation, has now been expanded in two key aspects: First, the Governor approved SB 1063, so that the Fair Pay Act now protects against race-based disparities in pay. ...more

School of Hard (Dread) Locks: EEOC Loses Appeal Over Hairstyle Ban

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/20/2016

Last week the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a case the EEOC filed over a job applicant’s short dreadlocks. In 2010, Chastity Jones, an African American, applied for a position with...more

Seventh Circuit Clarifies Evidentiary Standard for Employment Discrimination Claims

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/25/2016

In Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit clarified its standard for evaluating evidence in employment discrimination cases and rejected prior decisions to the extent they...more

EEOC takes aim at Target for discriminatory pre-employment tests

McAfee & Taft on 8/27/2015

The EEOC recently announced its $2.8 million settlement with Target Corp. of discrimination claims arising out of the use of employment tests in the hiring process. Discriminatory pre-employment tests like the ones at issue...more

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