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Three strikes and the EEOC guidance on background checks is out (or close to it).
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In 2012, the EEOC issued its Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII. The purpose of the Guidance was to help eliminate barriers in recruitment and hiring to ensure that companies running these background checks weren’t disparately impacting minorities.
Although well-intentioned, in practice, courts did not receive the Guidance well. Continue reading
When do (or don’t) Facebook posts create a hostile work environment?
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I can tell you this. It takes more than a few posts from a couple of ‘Wingnuts.’
Blame it on the a a a a a alcohol
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When can you ask an employee if s/he has a problem with alcohol? Continue reading
Are you an HR department of one? The EEOC has your back with this great free resource.
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I don’t envy you.
If I were an HR department of one, I’d crash and burn. To wit, no one has ever accused me of putting the ‘human’ into human resources. Continue reading
How many things can you find wrong with this picture?
Remember those “what’s wrong with this picture” games that we played as children? Something like this.
Last night, I found the employment law equivalent from this recent Sixth Circuit opinion. Continue reading
Filling out those EEO-1s stinks. But, it could be worse…
I want to give a little shoutout to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with whom I am spending the day today in Atlanta at the 22nd annual Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference.
So, today’s post is chock full of recent EEOC news and notes. Continue reading
Harassment training entirely via text message. Could this actually work?
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Yesterday, I received an unsolicited email from a company called Pluto.
Pluto claims to offer a text message harassment training course that helps startups get compliant in less than 5 minutes a day. Continue reading
Can sexual harassment investigations create an intolerable and hostile work environment for the harasser?
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