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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 -

Weekly Checklist: Do Your Job Descriptions Need an Update for 2024?

Fisher Phillips on 12/21/2023

FP Weekly often provides readers with a practical and cutting-edge checklist of issues to consider, action steps to take, and goals to accomplish to ensure you remain on the top of your game when it comes to workplace...more

EEOC's "not-so-sweet six" priorities, for 2024 and beyond

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 9/29/2023

These six will get the EEOC's attention in 2024-28. Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its Strategic Enforcement Plan for 2024-28. Strategic Enforcement Plans provide a helpful preview of...more

Weekly Checklist: Do Your Job Descriptions Need an Update for 2023?

Fisher Phillips on 1/16/2023

Each week, FP Weekly members receive a practical and cutting-edge checklist of issues to consider, action steps to take, and goals to accomplish to ensure you remain on the top of your game when it comes to workplace...more

OFCCP Week In Review: March 2022 #3

DirectEmployers Association on 3/21/2022

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

Seventh Circuit, Illinois, and Chicago Updates: Employers Should Take Note of Recent Cases and Newly Enacted Laws in 2021

Benesch on 2/16/2021

With the new year, it is important for employers to keep in mind several laws that are newly applicable and a recent court opinion. Also, currently pending legislation, likely to be enacted soon, will create additional...more

Court Grants Judgment and Injunction in Favor of EEOC In Americans With Disabilities Act Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 7/31/2018

UPS Freight's Policy of Paying Disabled Drivers Less Violates Federal Law, Court Rules - ST. LOUIS - A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for District of Kansas ruled on July 27, 2018, that UPS Freight violated...more

II-25 – Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Employers in 2018

Cozen O'Connor on 1/8/2018

From federal agency changes to anticipated developments in sexual harassment, paid leave, overtime, and marijuana use, this episode of Employment Law Now provides ten issues that employers should resolve to understand in the...more

Tick, Tock….The EEOC Runs Out The Clock – Fiscal Year 2017 Marks A Last Minute Return To Frantic Filing

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/2/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: With uncertain times and profound changes anticipated for the EEOC, employers anxiously await what enforcement litigation the EEOC has in store. Although 2016 showed a marked decline in filings, fiscal year...more

A Review of the EEOC's Systemic Initiative: Tracking its Progress, Current Priorities, and Key Developments in FY 2016

Littler on 12/16/2016

On November 16, 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its annual Performance and Accountability Report, which highlights key EEOC developments over the past fiscal year, ending September 30,...more

EEOC Strategic Enforcement Plan for 2017-2021

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/14/2016

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently revealed its Strategic Enforcement Plan for 2017-2021. Of course, this Plan was developed before the election of Donald Trump as President. Thus, the information...more

Gig and Technology Sectors Targeted in EEOC Enforcement Plan

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 11/4/2016

The EEOC is targeting the “21st-century workplace” by focusing on gig economies and the technology sector in its new Strategic Enforcement Plan. The new Enforcement Plan also targets what the EEOC calls “complex employment...more

New York State Adds Protected Classifications and Remedies for Workplace Discrimination

Morgan Lewis on 11/2/2015

The new laws are designed to protect equality for female employees in New York State; Governor also proposes regulations that would extend protections to transgender employees. On October 21, New York Governor Andrew...more

2015 Virginia Employment Law Pocket Guide

Sands Anderson PC on 1/30/2015

In this Guide: - Employment At-Will - Right to Work - Employment of Children - Restrictive Covenants in Employment Contracts - Virginia Human Rights Act - Virginians with Disabilities...more

Annual Report On EEOC Developments: Fiscal Year 2014

Littler on 1/5/2015

In This Issue: - INTRODUCTION ..I. LOOKING BACK AT FY 2014: A REVIEW OF EEOC SUCCESSES AND FAILURES, AND SIGNIFICANT CASES AND DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH FOR IN FY 2015 ..A. Key Statistics ...more

A Glimpse Into the Future: The EEOC’s New Strategic Enforcement Plan

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 5/31/2013

Stating that now is an “opportune moment for transformative change” that will require a strategic focus of resources and a rigorous commitment to reducing discriminatory practices in the workplace, the Equal Employment...more

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