Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on several protected classes (like race, sex, and religion). Courts had previously held that the impact to the employee claiming discrimination had to be a “significant...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for administering several federal laws regarding discrimination complaints in the workplace. The EEOC tries to mediate as many cases as possible, as roughly 70% of mediated cases settle. I mediate...
Employment attorney Robin Shea published an excellent article over at the Employment & Labor Insider blog entitled 9 traits of a bang-up workplace investigation. In my EEOC and NJ LAD mediations over the years, I have seen a number of poorly executed...
Last year, I wrote about Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College, a sexual orientation discrimination case decided by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, where the court ruled that the sex provisions under Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964 do not protect against...
The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission is charged with enforcing a number of our federal workplace anti-discrimination laws. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act sets up a number of “protected classes” (i.e. race, color, religion, sex or...
