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I hate the New York Yankees. So, it is with deep-seated loathing that today’s blog post not only features the Evil Empire but casts the organization in a positive light.
Whatever. They’re still in fourth place in the AL East. Continue reading
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Last year, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Bostock v. Clayton County that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender has discriminated based on sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to address the Fourth Circuit’s decision in G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, where the appellate court ruled that under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, transgender students may use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. Otherwise, the school is discriminating based on sex.
While Bostock has nothing to do with bathrooms and G.G. has nothing to do with the workplace, I think you can see where I’m going here.
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Today we’re going back to the basics and learning how a plaintiff must prove a sex discrimination claim based on circumstantial (i.e., the defendant doesn’t concede, “I fired you because you’re a woman.”) Continue reading
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Yep, we’re celebrating!
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An international airline is learning this lesson the hard way.
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Sometimes it’s easy to lose the forest for the trees. Continue reading
The headline in the Toronto Sun read, “Sex-partying drywallers fired: Contractor.” Meanwhile, the Daily Star went with “Builders sacked after video of boozy birthday party with stripper goes viral.” Continue reading
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“Equal Pay for Equal Work” has been the rallying cry in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA), which the House passed last week by a 217-210 vote.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2020, women earned 82 cents for every dollar men received. So, on paper, paying men and women the same wages for the same work — “paycheck fairness” — sounds, err, fair.
So, why has the PFA never reached the President’s desk in any of the past dozen attempts going back to 1997 that it’s been introduced in Congress? Let’s find out. Continue reading
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Did I ever tell you guys about the wacky race discrimination case I defended involving a male fast-food franchise employee caught on video smacking a female co-worker? Continue reading
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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
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