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…
Read More ›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…
Read More ›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…
Read More ›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…
Read More ›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…
Read More ›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…
Read More ›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…
Read More ›Number 12: The FMLA Becomes Law In 1993 Just over twenty years ago, employees who needed to take time off work for an extended period to tend to their own…
Read More ›Number 11: Workplace Investigations and the Good Faith Standard Allegations of employee misconduct – particularly as they relate to claims of discrimination and harassment – have been raised in the…
Read More ›Number 10: Harassment Training Becomes The Norm In 2005, when first responders arrived in New Orleans to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, they did not hit the ground running. Some…
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