HR Morning

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In other words, if the agency investigates or sues an employer, chances are it’ll be in one of the primary enforcement areas outlined in its new Strategic Enforcement Plan. Here are the EEOC’s top priorities for the next five years: Eliminating Barriers in Recruitment and Hiring. This is a big deal. Here’s why. .

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The Employer Handbook

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

One claimed that the defendant-employer violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination when it fired him for participating in a workplace investigation. One of your employees just complained about discrimination in the workplace. Or maybe s/he just participated in an HR investigation. Now you have a conundrum.

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Zenefits

MAY 15, 2022

Still, if a court finds that you fired or demoted an employee out of retaliation rather than for cause, you violated the law by obstructing the employee’s “ protected activity ,” or the right to speak out about a problem or concern. How employers retaliate. Failing to hire or rehire someone. Denying workers’ benefits.

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HR Daily Advisor

JANUARY 18, 2018

Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit—which covers Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania—recently broadened the definition of “supervisor” for purposes of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD), in an expression of the court’s opinion that went beyond the facts before it.

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HRExecutive

JUNE 10, 2016

A pair of recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cases suggests the situation is every bit as risky — both for drivers and employers — as you might think. The cases involve two trucking companies that got in trouble over sexual harassment of female trainees. That company, Missouri-based Prime Inc.,

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HR Daily Advisor

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The public is currently fixated on our business, sexual harassment in employment. Taking center stage is Harvey Weinstein, whose case is straightforward quid pro quo sexual harassment—a powerful employer expecting sex from women he promises to promote. Is that news in the film industry? Some women fled, some succumbed.

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HR Daily Advisor

OCTOBER 31, 2017

What happens when an industry has a culture of ignoring sexual harassment? The sexual harassment scandals rocking Hollywood paint a vivid picture. The public is currently fixated on our business, sexual harassment in employment. Employees describe an HR department that discouraged and ignored harassment reports.

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HR Morning

JUNE 3, 2016

A new lesson in hiring from the EEOC: You can’t get away with discriminating against a specific group of applicants by improperly structuring your training program. . million and will make job offers to women who were victims of the employer’s discriminatory hiring policy, the EEOC announced.

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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 27, 2018

Argento denies these allegations, but the report has stirred an important conversation about avoiding a double standard when it comes to handling sexual harassment complaints where the accused is female and the accuser is male. The Times reports that it also received a selfie photograph of the two lying in bed and dated May 9, 2013.

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HRWatchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Responsible for enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) continues to focus on its strategic priorities as outlined in its annual Performance and Accountability Report. The EEOC resolved claims of sexual harassment and other forms of sex discrimination for about $3.8

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HR Morning

MARCH 24, 2017

Details of the case: The agency filed suit against the company in August 2016, charging that KASCO had violated federal law by discriminating against an employee, Latifa Sidiqi, because of her adherence to Islam and her Afghan descent, and then firing her for complaining about it. The first case involves KASCO, LLC, a St. Witherspoon, Jr.

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