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EEOC reiterates its enforcement priorities for the next four years

Ohio Employer's Law

Protecting vulnerable workers, including immigrant and migrant workers, and underserved communities from discrimination. As Eric Meyer points out at his Employer Handbook Blog , these six enforcement priorities bear a striking resemblance to those in the EEOC’s recently expired prior enforcement plan, which covered 2013 – 2016.

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3 Actionable Ways to Support Your LGBTQ+ Employees During Pride Month

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However, 20% of LGBTQ+ Americans have experienced discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity when applying for jobs, which jumps up to 32% for LGBTQ+ folks who are people of color. Sounds like it’s a job for the employee handbook! ??. heteronormative worldview. Intersectionality matters, y’all. Next steps.

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How did a white man convince a jury to award him over $10M for race and gender discrimination?

The Employer Handbook

In 2013, a healthcare provider hired a white man—let’s call him plaintiff—as its Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications. All told, even without direct evidence of discrimination, the jury concluded that the plaintiff’s race and gender motivated the defendant’s employment decision.

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Court says, yes, you can fire a worker whom you believe made up a discrimination claim at work.

The Employer Handbook

It’s not just people who fabricate complaints of discrimination at work, but those whom you believe fabricated discrimination claims. Around Halloween in 2013, the plaintiff reported to the Director of Operations that one of the plaintiff’s direct reports had been subjected to quid pro quo sexual harassment.

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If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try again. Then, file an age discrimination lawsuit. Then try again.

The Employer Handbook

So, in 2013, she applied again. So, she gave up applying and just sued for age discrimination. Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act , an employer can’t refuse to hire someone because of her age (forty or over). We agree that there is no probative evidence of discrimination. And you know what?

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All the ??hot?? takes on how Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh could shape employment law

The Employer Handbook

“In employment discrimination claims, Judge Kavanaugh’s opinions over the years typically favored the employer.” Instead, trial courts should focus on the more important question of whether the employee can establish that the employer’s rationale is pretext “and that the employer intentionally discriminated against the employee.”.

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Your employee uses medical marijuana. Her drug test is positive. But, how do you know if she was high at work?

The Employer Handbook

For purposes of today’s post, I want to focus your attention on the anti-discrimination provision of the AMMA. In 2013, the defendant promoted the plaintiff, and that’s when things got interesting. File the stuff that I underlined away for a bit. We’ll get back to it shortly. I’ve got to set up the lawsuit.