The United States Supreme Court yesterday settled the question of whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision’s statutory duty to conciliate a remedy to a Title VII violation prior to filing a lawsuit is subject to some level of judicial review. … Continue reading
On January 13, 2015, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) made arguments that fly in the face of President Obama’s call for transparency and open government. In the case, Mach … Continue reading
Thanks to HR Magazine writer, Dori Meinert, for extensively quoting me in her article “How to Conduct a Workplace Investigation” in the December 2014 edition of HR Magazine. Ms. Meinert’s article provides great insights for HR professionals and others responsible … Continue reading
After acknowledging in recent testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections that “[c]ombating discrimination in the workplace is a worthy goal and one that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce … Continue reading
Welcome brave souls! This month’s edition of the Employment Blawg Carnival is hosted by fellow employment law blogger Timothy Eavenson and is dubbed the “Haunted House Edition.” Yours truly appears in the The Forgotten Passage, where Tim writes: We’ll finally make it … Continue reading
After the EEOC investigates claims of civil rights violations in the workplace, it either finds “reasonable cause” that illegal conduct has occurred or not. For those reasonable cause findings, the EEOC is legally required to engage in efforts to conciliate … Continue reading
Jobvite’s sixth annual Social Recruiting Survey came out this week and starts with the headline “[a]nyone not leveraging social referrals is behind the curve. “ The survey found that 94% of recruiters are now using or plan to use social … Continue reading
Two lawsuits filed in the past 11 days by the EEOC serve as a reminder that the mandatory “interactive process” under the Americans with Disability Act requires the employer to at least discuss whether there is an appropriate reasonable accommodation. … Continue reading
With over one billion active Facebook users and 500,000,000+ Twitter accounts, it is no surprise that the discovery of messages, status updates, wall posts, tweets and pictures shared on social media has become a battle ground in sexual harassment and … Continue reading
How do lawyers who represent employees decide which of the employees who contact them to represent? According to Nina Pirrotti, an attorney with Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Richardson, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti, P.C., one of her “first lines of inquiry in evaluating a … Continue reading