50 for 50: Five Decades of the Most Important Discrimination Law Developments

Number 30: An Employer’s Honest Belief A Surefire Defense?  Not Always  Proving discrimination – or the absence of it – is a tricky proposition at its core and there can…

Number 29: The EEOC Requires Employers to File EEO-1 Reports The EEOC is tasked not only with enforcement and adjudication of employment discrimination; it also has data-collecting requirements.  In some…

Number 28:  The Older Workers Benefit Protection Act and Settlement Agreements in General In 1990, Congress amended the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA, prohibiting age discrimination for workers 40…

Number 27:  Discrimination and Harassment Policies in Handbooks Before Title VII, employee handbooks were rare and, if they existed, they were small pamphlets explaining intra-office procedures.  It wasn’t until the…

Number 26: Individuals Cannot Be Liable For Title VII Violations There are all sorts of reasons why an employee would want to avoid discrimination or harassment of co-workers or direct…

Number 25: The Rise in Frequency of Retaliation Claims When considering Title VII complaint statistics, it is usually assumed that race discrimination or sexual harassment claims would be the most frequent…

Number 24:  The Supreme Court Balances TheTension Between Disparate Treatment And Disparate Impact Discrimination In Employment Testing Employment tests and other selection procedures have long been part of hiring and…

Number 23: After-Acquired Evidence  “You did what?  If I Hadn’t Already Fired You, I’d Fire You Now!” What if?  This is the question that has followed Title VII since its inception:…

Number 22: Are English-Only Rules Discriminatory? The Rise Of Non-English Speakers In The Workplace As of 2012, there were 38.3 million Americans who spoke Spanish as their primary language in…

Number 21:  From The Courts To Pop Culture — Sexual Harassment In Hollywood And The News It is tough to determine the precise moment that sexual harassment went from something…