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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 -

Colorado Peculiarities

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/31/2023

Seyfarth Synopsis: Seyfarth’s excellent publication “Cal-Peculiarities: How California Employment Law Is Different,” which is updated annually, highlights the many unique aspects of the Golden State’s employment law. ...more

The 9 Things Colorado Employers Should Do After Lawmakers Pass Batch of New Workplace Laws

Fisher Phillips on 6/22/2023

The Colorado legislature has been busy this season passing new employment laws, adding to your compliance obligations in a big way. We reviewed the key workplace laws that Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into effect and...more

Men Refusing To Work Alone With Women: The HR And Legal Guide

Fisher Phillips on 12/11/2019

Can a sincerely held religious belief – or a wife’s personal jealousy – justify a male employee refusing to work with women coworkers or other professional contacts? A federal district court in North Carolina is poised to...more

The First Department Appellate Division Adopts An Expanded Definition of Marital Status Discrimination Under the New York City...

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 11/21/2018

In 1980, the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in New York) held that the prohibition against "marital status" discrimination contained in the New York State Human Rights Law includes only discrimination based on...more

State Appeals Court Expands Scope Of NYC’s Marital Status Discrimination Law

Fisher Phillips on 9/12/2018

The scope of New York City’s marital status discrimination law was just expanded by a state appeals court, meaning that employers need to be even more wary when it comes to any workplace decisions taken on the basis of who...more

Re-Evaluating the Weight of the “Subtle” Discriminatory Remarks: One Pennsylvania Federal Court Discusses "Subtle” Sex...

Fisher Phillips on 1/31/2018

Although sex discrimination claims are often met with explanations that the alleged offender didn’t realize what they said or did was offensive, or that the recipient misinterpreted the words or actions of the alleged...more

Key California Employment Law Cases: September 2017

Payne & Fears on 10/17/2017

This month’s key California employment law cases involve wage and hour issues, arbitration, and employment discrimination based on marital status....more

Marital Status Discrimination Claim Fails in Light of Workplace Violence Concerns, California Court Rules

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/2/2017

In a recent, unpublished opinion, a California Court of Appeal found in favor of an employer on a marital status discrimination claim than an employee brought under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). The court held...more

Office Marital Dispute Did Not Trigger Employer’s Duty to Investigate

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/11/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: In Nakai v. Friendship House Association of American Indians, Inc., the California Court of Appeal considered whether marital disputes that spill into the workplace trigger FEHA’s marital status protections...more

New Jersey Employer’s Fear of Employee’s “Ugly Divorce” Forms Basis of Marital Status Bias Claim

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/16/2016

In Smith v. Millville Rescue Squad, (A-19-14, June 21, 2016), the New Jersey Supreme Court broadly interpreted the prohibition against marital status discrimination in the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) to protect a person...more

New Jersey Supreme Court Broadly Defines “Marital Status” Discrimination

Fisher Phillips on 7/25/2016

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently interpreted the state’s antidiscrimination law in an expansive manner, concluding that a broad spectrum of individuals can file suit and claim that their employers unfairly discriminated...more

Discrimination Based on Marital Status in Employment Law

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 2/24/2016

There are a number of special legal and social advantages offered to people who choose to enter into the institution of marriage. Similarly, a whole host of benefits are offered to domestic partners in California. These...more

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