In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the standards for balancing an employee’s religious accommodation request against the potential undue hardship that such a request may impose...more
5/23/2023
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Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Petition For Rehearing ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
School Districts ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Undue Hardship
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the standards for balancing an employee’s religious accommodation request against the potential undue hardship that such a request may impose...more
4/25/2023
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Failure to Accommodate ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Resignation ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Undue Hardship
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reiterated the requirements that must be met for an employee to identify a similarly situated comparator for purposes of a Title VII claim. Gamble v. FCA...more
5/25/2021
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Employee Misconduct ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Internal Investigations ,
Protected Class ,
Race Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Similarly Situated ,
Termination ,
Title VII
On June 15, 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 majority opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) protects employees from discrimination in the workplace...more
6/18/2020
/ Altitude Express Inc v Zarda ,
Bostock v Clayton County Georgia ,
Civil Rights Act ,
EEOC v RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Gender Identity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Fort Bend County v. Davis that Title VII’s administrative exhaustion requirement is a claims-processing requirement, not a jurisdictional requirement, which means...more
7/1/2019
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Amended Complaints ,
Appeals ,
Charge-Filing Preconditions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Exhaustion Doctrine ,
Fort Bend County Texas v Davis ,
Jurisdictional Requirements ,
Mandatory Claim-Processing Rules ,
SCOTUS ,
Time-Barred Claims ,
Title VII ,
Waiver Rule
Recent federal court decisions serve as a timely reminder of an employer’s obligations under Title VII to protect employees from all unlawful harassment in the workplace, even if that harassment is perpetrated by someone...more