Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On Monday, I blogged about President Biden’s first HR-compliance wish list, which focused on COVID-19 mitigation efforts. On Wednesday, President Biden was sworn in. And, folks, he wasted no time making moves that will impact…
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Once the networks called the presidential election for Joe Biden over the weekend, something dawned on me. Maybe, I should write about how the new administration may impact employment law. I mean, what other employment…
By Franz Jantzen, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States – https://www.oyez.org/justices/neil_gorsuch, Public Domain, Link After reading 133 pages of transcripts from yesterday’s two (1, 2) oral arguments in the three LGBT workplace rights cases pending before the Supreme Court, three things are clear to me: First, the…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com It’s been a while since the Supreme Court weighed in on a big-time employment-law issue. That’s about to change. Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in three cases: EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. Bostock v. Clayton County Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc.…
By Ivan Curra, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link (Not pictured: Eric Meyer; probably off grabbing a Dole Whip (adult version) and a turkey leg). Folks, the blog posts may not be as fast and furious (i.e., daily) as usual this week. That’s because, yes, I am vacationing with the family in…
Image by mibapict from Pixabay Today, we’re taking a break from wage-and-hour compliance because I’m not sure that you can continue to handle that much fun. How else would you interpret so many people (un)subscribing to this blog yesterday? Instead, I want to talk about news of this brief that…
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Allow me to explain. Eric. remind me. What is the Equality Act? Among other things, the Equality Act would amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal anti-discrimination law for the workplace, to clarify that discrimination based on sex (currently…
Image Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/pride-gay-nyc-new-york-city-flag-2444813/ The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the prohibition against sex discrimination in Title VII also covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In other words, are there LGBT legal rights in the workplace? I should be on my third keyboard with all of…
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsYesterday, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh delivered the opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court in a case called Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. Although the Court’s decision has nothing to do with employment law —…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (http://photofunia.com/results/5b9a4b7e46867953) In most federal courts in this country, a plaintiff arguing a Title VII violation because he or she was discriminated against based on his/her LGBT status will lose. That’s a fact. That’s because Title VII prohibits discrimination based on one’s “sex.” And, most courts don’t construe “sex”…