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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 -

Do You Know Your Obligations to Transgender Employees and Job Applicants?

Stokes Wagner on 9/23/2022

The subject of transgender Americans has been raised a lot recently, sometimes in political contexts, but regardless of the politics, it is important for employers to understand their obligations with respect to transgender...more

OFCCP Week In Review: February 2022 #4

DirectEmployers Association on 2/28/2022

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

Capstone Logistics to Pay $50,000 To Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/9/2018

Company Refused to Hire Qualified Applicant Because He Is Deaf, Federal Agency Said - BALTIMORE -- Capstone Logistics LLC, a Norcross, Ga.-based manufacturing and distribution company, will pay $50,000 and provide...more

Employment Law Authority - May/June 2017

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/6/2017

THE EVOLVING DEFINITION OF SEX(UAL ORIENTATION) UNDER TITLE VII - On April 4, 2017, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued its highly anticipated decision in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, making...more

Refusal to Rescind Employee’s Resignation Not an Adverse Employment Action

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/24/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Court of Appeal has held that an employer’s refusal to honor an employee’s rescission of a voluntary resignation is not an adverse employment action under the Fair Employment and Housing Act....more

Annual Report on EEOC Developments – Fiscal Year 2016

Littler on 2/27/2017

This Annual Report on EEOC Developments—Fiscal Year 2016 (hereafter “Report”), our sixth annual Report, is designed as a comprehensive guide to significant EEOC developments over the past fiscal year. The Report does not...more

Puerto Rico Issues Comprehensive Labor Law Reform

FordHarrison on 2/8/2017

On January 26, 2017, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Ricardo Roselló, signed into law the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Act (the “Act”). The Act represents the first significant and comprehensive labor law reform to occur in...more

7-Eleven Sued By EEOC for Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 10/5/2016

Oklahoma Chain Unlawfully Denied Reasonable Accommodations to Workers with Disabilities and Fired Them, Federal Agency Charges - ST. LOUIS - Brown-Thompson General Partnership, dba 7-Eleven, a chain of Oklahoma...more

EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Continued: Did the Supreme Court Pave the Way for ADA Claims Based on Nonobvious Disabilities?

Baker Donelson on 6/16/2015

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court decided EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch, a Title VII case involving religious discrimination. While the case did not directly involve the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the...more

Employment Law - June 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 6/15/2015

Actual Knowledge by Employer Not Necessary for Title VII Religious Discrimination Claim, U.S. Supreme Court Rules - Why it matters: In a closely watched case, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a teenage applicant to...more

EEOC Sues Wal-Mart for Sexual Harassment, Retaliation and Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/12/2013

Developmentally Disabled Walmart Employee in Akron Store Fired for Complaining About Sexual Touching, Federal Agency Charges - CLEVELAND - Wal-Mart Stores East, L.P. violated federal law by allowing a male employee...more

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