EEO

Number 22: Are English-Only Rules Discriminatory? The Rise Of Non-English Speakers In The Workplace As of 2012, there were 38.3 million Americans who spoke Spanish as their primary language in…

Number 21:  From The Courts To Pop Culture — Sexual Harassment In Hollywood And The News It is tough to determine the precise moment that sexual harassment went from something…

Number 20:  Bipartisan Gridlock Prevents Sexual Orientation From Becoming A Protected Class  The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), if passed, would become the first federal legislation that prohibits employers from discriminating against…

Number 19:  HIV/AIDS Is a Protected Disability Under The ADA The social, economic and public health effects of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s propelled public health and community-based organizations…

Number 18: When Is An Employer Liable For Harassment By Its Employees? Although Title VII was passed in 1964, it wasn’t until 1998 that the United States Supreme Court handed…

Number 17:  What Happens When An Employer Has Mixed Motives? What happens when an employer decides to terminate an employee for discriminatory and non-discriminatory reasons?  The Supreme Court gave a…

Number 16: Employers Fight Against Title VII Lawsuits With Summary Judgment Summary judgment motions have long been in the toolkit for employers to combat weak and frivolous Title VII claims…

Number 15: Affirmative Action For Federal Contractors And Subcontractors Within months of signing Title VII into law, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 on September 24, 1965, establishing…

Number 14:  Discrimination Laws Apply To State And Local Government Employees Title VII, as enacted in 1964, had a rather large coverage gap: millions of American workers employed by State…

Number 13: Equal Pay Gets A Boost In The Obama Administration The Equal Pay Act, which mandates equal pay between the sexes for equal work, actually became law before Title…