Agencies Step Up DEI Scrutiny, DOL Clarifies Overtime Rules, and California Court Limits PAGA Claims - Employment Law This Week®
EEO-1 Reports, Remote Work, and Non-Compete Restrictions in Tennessee - Employment Law This Week®
From Punchlines to Prejudice: Confronting Antisemitism in the Workplace — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Work This Way, A Labor & Employment Podcast | Is Weight a Protected Class? Navigating Weight Bias and Employment Law with Jennie Cluverius of Maynard Nexsen
The Administration’s Focus on DEI Moves from Words to Action - Employment Law This Week®
Episode 400: Reopening 9/11 -- A UK Supreme Court Battle Over Truth, Power, and Accountability
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Disparate Impact
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The “Disparate” Dilemma in Employment Discrimination Litigation
Electronic Funds Transfers Issues
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Social Media and Employee Firings: What Employers Need to Know - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
A Changing Campus Landscape: What Universities Need to Know
Remote Work and Religion: New Legal Risks for Employers in 2025 - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Executive Order 14281: The End of Fair Lending Law Enforcement Through Use of the Disparate Impact Legal Theory?
Dear Littler: With the World Cup in full swing and Houston as one of many host cities, our office has turned into a daily “fan zone.” At first, it was fun: jerseys, team songs, and watch parties....more
Colorado will soon require private employers with at least 100 employees to file demographic workforce data related to race, ethnicity, gender, and job categories, even if the Trump administration eliminates the federal EEO-1...more
On June 4, 2026, the EEOC published its National Enforcement Plan to guide its enforcement efforts of anti-discrimination law through 2029. The new Enforcement Plan identifies among its priorities:...more
The Washington State Human Rights Commission recently adopted a resolution reaffirming its commitment to protecting Jewish Washingtonians from violence, threats, intimidation, discrimination, and harassment. That effort,...more
On June 9, 2026, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) issued a formal opinion concluding that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) longstanding guidelines on disparate-impact liability...more
Employers are increasingly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven tools in performance management in an effort to promote consistency and reduce human bias. Yet these systems inherit the limitations of the...more
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently upheld a $1.4 million jury verdict in Robinson v. Marshfield in favor of a fire chief who alleged retaliation after complaining that his niece, a probationary...more
On June 4, 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) rescinded its Strategic Enforcement Plan for Fiscal Years 2024–2028 (previously adopted during the Biden administration) and replaced it with a...more
In the first Massachusetts jury verdict to uphold a retaliation claim under the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (“PFML”), a Suffolk Superior Court jury ordered Wayfair to pay approximately $4.75 million to its...more
CLE Relay 2026 - Jenner & Block's appellate lawyers review the most consequential cases from the 2025–2026 Supreme Court term. This session covers high-profile decisions and pending matters addressing presidential power,...more
For higher education institutions looking to increase enrollment and K-12 schools aiming to offer advanced courses, dual enrollment (often also called Early College) offers an appealing option. However, creating or expanding...more
On June 4, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a revised National Enforcement Plan (NEP). The NEP sets forth the agency’s enforcement agenda and supersedes (and starkly departs from) the 2024-2028...more
Kickoff: Getting to Know Ecuador’s National Team: Ecuador’s football identity is shaped by geography in a way few nations can match....more
Illinois is set to become one of the first states in the country to offer protections for workers experiencing menopause-related conditions under its employment discrimination laws. Assuming the bill takes effect, employers...more
Kickoff: Getting to Know the Spanish National Team: Spanish football is often understood through one simple idea: the team comes first....more
Florida just cleared up a longstanding question for employers facing state-law workplace discrimination claims. Employers and employees alike now have a clearer, more predictable deadline for when such claims can go to court....more
On May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, “Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” For employers, this type of high-profile religious guidance related...more
A wave of class action lawsuits has been filed against major hospitality providers alleging that the use of synthetic fragrances in common areas violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and various state consumer...more
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 26-1207 on June 4, 2026, establishing a requirement as of July 1, 2027, for employers to provide EEO-1 data as part of their periodic reporting to the Colorado secretary of...more
The Small Business Administration (SBA) on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, released a proposed rule, Reforms to Remove SBA’s 8(a) Program’s Rebuttable Presumption of Social Disadvantage for Individually Owned Firms Only; Reforms Do...more
BLOG OVERVIEW: In EEOC v. Psychological Dimensions, LLC, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued administrative subpoenas to a third-party pre-employment assessment vendor, not the public employers under...more
On June 11, 2026, the U.S. Small Business Administration published a proposal fundamentally altering how individuals demonstrate eligibility under the Social Disadvantage standard for the 8(a) Business Development Program....more
On May 22, 2026, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a memo that significantly limits how the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) will handle complaints regarding animal-related...more
Will the courts agree? Building on the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle disparate impact as a basis for discrimination claims, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice has said that the...more
On May 20, 2026, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) officially withdrew Circular 4704.1A, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Requirements and Guidelines for Federal Transit Administration Recipients. The action,...more
