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The Employer Handbook BlogWhy did a transgender employee who needed leave from work lose claims for both sex and disability discrimination?
Sometimes it’s easy to lose the forest for the trees. Continue reading
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Oh, check it out! The Equality Act is back. But, will it get to the President this time? 🏳️🌈
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In 2019, the House of Representatives made history when it passed the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBT rights bill. Continue reading
Eight ways that President Biden changed employment law on Day One. That was fast!!!
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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 labor and employment law. Continue reading
Five ways that a Biden presidency may reshape employment law and HR-compliance
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 lawyer/blogger would think to do that? Dibs! Continue reading
SCOTUS Oral Argument Recap: Is Justice Gorsuch the swing vote on LGBT workplace rights?
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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: Continue reading
Today at the Supreme Court, LGBT rights at work take center stage.
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It’s been a while since the Supreme Court weighed in on a big-time employment-law issue. That’s about to change.
Vacation Thread: DOJ says that transgender discrimination under Title VII is perfectly legal
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(Not pictured: Eric Meyer; probably off grabbing a Dole Whip (adult version) and a turkey leg). Continue reading
$5 trillion says that LGBT discrimination at work is against federal law
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 over 200 companies, representing more than 7 million employees, a wide variety of industries, and more than $5 trillion in revenue will file with the Supreme Court today. Continue reading
The House passed the Equality Act to protect LGBT rights at work. Here’s why it won’t become law.
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Allow me to explain.
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Why was there an employment law trending on Twitter yesterday? Oh, I think I know.
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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? Continue reading