Documentation, Employer Liability Issues, Anti-Discrimination Policies

New Year, New Goals: Why You’ll Want to Add Workplace Investigation Training to Your 2025 Resolution List

Fisher Phillips on 1/7/2025

Before the ink dries on your professional New Year’s resolutions, you may want to add “empower leaders with investigation training.” While most employers appreciate that complaints about potential workplace misconduct or...more

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act aka the EEOC’s New Baby

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers on 6/5/2024

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), the newest member of the family of federal anti-discrimination laws, is almost one year old! Instead of inviting employers over for cake and photo ops, after one year of accepting...more

ABCs of Employment Law: Employment at will

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 9/16/2022

So misunderstood! NOTE FROM ROBIN: Earlier this year, I began a series of very basic explanations of the federal laws that govern the workplace. The first installment covered discrimination in general, and the second...more

Pittsburgh Issues Important Guidance for Employers Related to Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 3/11/2022

Following the passage of a bill that expanded the City’s anti-discrimination law to include employee “status as a victim of domestic violence,” Pittsburgh recently published additional guidance for employers....more

EEOC Issues New Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccine Incentives

Butler Snow LLP on 6/4/2021

On the brink of a holiday weekend and the return of many employees from working remotely back to the office, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued new guidance on Friday, May 28 regarding vaccinations in...more

Everything Employers Always Wanted To Know About Vaccines . . . And Have Been Asking About For Months.

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 6/3/2021

Just before the Memorial Day holiday, we had a “breaking news” bulletin about the revised guidance published Friday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about employers’ and employees’ rights when it came to...more

Employee Needs More Than Speculation to Support his Retaliation Claim

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/18/2014

To prevail on a claim of retaliation under federal law, an employee must prove that he or she engaged in a “protected activity” under an antidiscrimination statute and subsequently suffered an adverse employment action. In...more

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