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The Employer Handbook BlogOn Equal Pay Day, let’s take a closer look at what’s being done to address pay disparity.
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With more co-sponsors than ever and huge corporate support, will Congress finally vote to ban LGBT discrimination?
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There is a sure-fire way to avoid the uncertainty of when and how the Supreme Court may — legal jargon in 3…2…1… — adjudicate LGBT rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
And that’s to pass a law making LGBT discrimination at work unlawful.
Speaking of which… Continue reading
On International Women’s Day, the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team sued U.S. Soccer to demand equal pay.
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But, can the plaintiffs prevail? Continue reading
Your EEO-1 will now take 3.4 hours longer to complete
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Yesterday’s United States Supreme Court Equal Pay Act decision — in a limerick.
Edward Lear [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sometimes you can favor women over men for a job; other times it’ll cost you $41,000
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We’re talkin’ softball. Continue reading
Will this time be the charm for some workplace bills recently reintroduced in Congress?
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There’s a false rumor going around that a female employee slept her way to the top. Can she sue for sexual harassment?
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Let’s imagine that one of your female co-workers gets promoted. Shortly afterward, some of your male co-workers spread false rumors about how their recently-promoted colleague must have slept her way to the top.
Do you think that: (a) these rumors are gender-based, or (b) based upon false allegations of conduct?
The former could be the lynchpin to a viable sex-based hostile work environment claim. If it’s the latter, i.e., the rumors could have just as quickly been spread about a man, then the hostile work environment claim gets dismissed. Continue reading
Lower court reminds us that LGBT rights remain limited in the Third Circuit, well, except…
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A few weeks ago, a Pennsylvania federal judge reluctantly ruled in this case that discrimination based on sexual orientation is not unlawful (or you, could say, permissible) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Continue reading
Litigating against LGBT rights may win one case, but still be bad for business overall.
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Among Fortune 500 companies, 91% prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and 83% prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. [Source] But, under federal law, circuit courts remain split as to whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination based on LGBT status.
So, let’s say you’re a Fortune 500 company accused of LGBT discrimination in a jurisdiction in which the law may permit that type of abhorrent behavior.
Do you defend by arguing that the law permits LGBT discrimination? Continue reading