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What does it feel like winning the lottery? I don’t know but it has to feel a lot like getting picked for jury duty. (Wait, am I the only one to get excited at the prospect of jury duty? )...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

On October 15, 2019, the New Jersey Civil Service Commission (“CSC”) distributed a uniform Domestic Violence Policy (“Policy”) which all New Jersey public employers must follow. As defined in the enabling legislation, public employers include the...By: Genova Burns LLC

In the wake of its Boeing decision, the National Labor Relations Board continues to analyze various employee handbook and other policies to determine if they interfere with Section 7 employee concerted activity rights. On October 10, the board...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The New York City Commission on Human Rights (“the Commission”) published a legal enforcement guidance (“Guidance”) clarifying its standards with respect to discrimination based on actual or perceived immigration status and national origin. The...By: Epstein Becker & Green

Seyfarth Synopsis: California’s ban-the-box law strictly regulates how employers may obtain and consider background check information when hiring and making personnel decisions. What’s more, Los Angeles and San Francisco have their own ban-the-box...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: In an EEOC disability discrimination lawsuit alleging that an employer failed to accommodate and then wrongfully terminated a laundry technician with anxiety, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted the...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

PepsiCo, Inc. (Pepsi) is the sponsor of a defined benefit pension plan. Like several other prominent sponsors of defined benefit pension plans, Pepsi was named as a plaintiff in an actuarial equivalence lawsuit that alleged problems with the...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

Uh, no, says judge. Last week, I posted that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to declare its EEO-1 "Category 2" pay data collection efforts to be complete....By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Recently, several jurisdictions have stated that discriminating against an employee on the basis of the employee’s hairstyle, where the hairstyle is closely associated with race, constitutes race discrimination. The New Jersey Division of Civil...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued another decision benefitting employers by holding that an employer does not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it removes from the employer’s parking lot nonemployee union...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP