In July, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its panel decision in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana and affirmed a district court’s ruling that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not redress sexual-orientation discrimination in the workplace. 830 F.3d 698.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit EEOC Title VII

As the expression goes, “the clothes make the man.”

Tagged with: EEOC Family and Medical Leave Act religious discrimination Title VII

Can an employer be held liable for acts of employment discrimination carried out by another employer? The quick, lawyerly answer is ... it depends.

Tagged with: Civil Rights Act discrimination Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan Job Cites Title VII Warren Buliox

With health insurance costs on the mind of all employers, a way to cut expenses and get healthier employees sounds like a good option.

Tagged with: Americans with Disabilities Act National Labor Relations Act Title VII

For most employers, employee severance agreements are essential tools for ensuring that the end of an employment relationship doesn’t lead to litigation.

Tagged with: Americans with Disabilities Act EEOC Fair Labor Standards Act National Labor Relations Act Severance Title VII

Defense lawyers are touting the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this week on Title VII supervisor liability as a significant win for employers, providing a welcome clarification to the law while dealing a blow to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Tagged with: EEOC Title VII U.S. Supreme Court

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday made it more difficult for Americans to sue businesses for discrimination and retaliation, leading a judge to call for Congress to overturn the court's actions.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Anthony Kennedy Antonin Scalia Elena Kagan job discrimination Ruth Bader Ginsburg Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor Stephen Breyer Title VII U.S. Supreme Court

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to have mixed feelings about allowing an employee asserting a Title VII-based retaliation claim to prove that his complaint of discrimination was one motivating factor for the employer’s adverse action rather than the but-for cause.

Tagged with: Title VII U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide a case that may have a significant impact on how employers approach defending claims under multiple federal employment laws.

Tagged with: Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan Job Cites Title VII

12-1875 Begolli v. Home Depot, U.S.A., Inc.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest Employment Digest Inc. statute of limitations Title VII

The task of conducting internal investigations may have just gotten a bit more difficult.

Tagged with: discrimination EEOC Job Cites NLRB sexual harassment Title VII

Before lawyers had time to digest the recent ruling from the National Labor Relations Board that an employer violated federal labor law by requesting confidentiality from all employees during internal investigations, they faced another question: was the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission taking the same position?

Tagged with: discrimination EEOC NLRB Title VII

Jane Doe was 19 years old when she was charged with prescription fraud. She altered the quantity on a painkiller prescription she received for tooth pain. To make things right after her youthful mistake, she entered a diversion program and was able to avoid having a criminal record that would follow her for the rest of her life. Or so she thought.

Tagged with: Civil Rights Act EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Title VII

Federal employment discrimination law does not provide a remedy for a bank employee who claims she was fired because of her marriage to a Mexican citizen who had entered the U.S. illegally, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming a summary judgment.

Tagged with: Court of Appeals discrimination illegal immigrants Supreme Court Title VII

The recent ruling from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission holding that transgendered workers can bring employment bias claims under Title VII is a “game changer” in employment discrimination law, and could lead to claims under the Act based on sexual orientation.

Tagged with: EEOC Employment Discrimination Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Title VII

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued updated guidance on employers’ use of criminal background checks in making employment decisions.

Tagged with: Civil Rights Act EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Title VII

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups are praising the recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decision in Macy v. Holder (appeal no. 0120120821), to extend Title VII employment discrimination protection to transgender individuals.

Tagged with: EEOC Employment Discrimination Equal Employment Opportunity Commission job discrimination sex discrimination Title VII transgender

Employers beware: Your prohibition on hiring job applicants with arrest or conviction records could land you in trouble with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Tagged with: Civil Rights EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission job discrimination Title VII

Some of you may recall my article a few years back entitled “What About Roberta?” about transgenderism in the workplace. In that piece, we followed “Bob,” a long-term employee who came into an office seeking support as he went through the process of transitioning from male to female.

Tagged with: Court of Appeals Job Cites sex discrimination Title VII

11-2146 Pickett v. Sheridan Health Care Center

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Attorney fees Civil Digest Employment Digest Title VII

The first of what promises to be many smaller-sized job discrimination class actions against Wal-Mart in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring a single massive class has been filed in California.

Tagged with: Supreme Court Title VII