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EEOC Issues First Retaliation Guidance in Almost 20 Years

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued its first enforcement guidance on employment-related retaliation in almost 20 years. The Final Guidance is in response to numerous court rulings on...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

EEOC Issues Final Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues

On August 25, 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its final “Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues.” Along with the final guidance, the EEOC issued a Q&A publication and a Small...more

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EEOC Issues Its First Guidance on Retaliation in Almost Two Decades: Next Steps for Employers

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On August 29, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published its Final Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issue. This was the first guidance from the EEOC on these issues since 1998. The EEOC...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

EEOC Replaces Outdated Guidance on Retaliation

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Recently, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) replaced its 1998 Compliance Manual section on retaliation, issuing its final Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues ("the Guidance"). The...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

EEOC Updates Guidance on Retaliation Law Enforcement

Retaliation is the claim alleged most frequently in charges filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Nearly 45 percent of agency charges include a retaliation claim. On August 29, 2016, the EEOC...more

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Is the EEOC’S New Guidance on Retaliation Setting a New Legal Standard?

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It’s the most common employment law claim . . . retaliation. In 2015, 44.5% of the total EEOC charges were based on retaliation, which exceeded even race-based charges of discrimination. So it is not surprising that the...more

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EEOC Issues Updated Guidance on Workplace Retaliation

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On August 25, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued updated guidance on workplace retaliation issues. The EEOC enforces Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

How to make the EEOC love you (retaliation edition)

Employers, imagine that a retaliation charge has been filed against your company. What can you do to make the EEOC investigator love you? Late last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its final...more

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10 Things That the EEOC’s New Retaliation Guidance Considers “Protected Activity”

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its new “Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues” on On August 25, 2016. Careful readers will be able to deduce from the section titled “Expansive Definition”...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

EEOC Retaliation Guidance, Part 3: A “Causal Connection” Checklist For Employers

This is the final installment of my analysis of the EEOC’s recently issued proposed Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues. Here are Part One (“You gotta be protected!”) and Part Two (“Was your employment...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

EEOC’s Updated Retaliation Enforcement Guidance Seeks to Expand the Reach of its Anti-Retaliation Laws

Effectively responding to employee discrimination complaints by current employees without running afoul of federal and state anti-retaliation laws presents a slippery slope for all employers. In fact, retaliation complaints...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

EEOC Retaliation Guidance, Part 2: Was Your Employment Action “Adverse”?

What’s a “materially adverse employment action”? This is the second part in what should be a three-part series (it’s possible that we’ll need four) on the proposed Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

EEOC Retaliation Guidance, Part 1: You Gotta Be “Protected”!

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued last week a proposed Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues that would update guidance issued in 1998. If you’re an in-house attorney or a Human Resources...more

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