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As the DOL Turns
March 19, 2025
As we noted in January, the Trump administration has wasted no time in revamping the Department of Labor to suit its political taste.
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EEOC Charges Increased by 9.2%
March 7, 2025
The EEOC last week released its Charge analyses for its Fiscal Year ending September 30, 2024. The following comparisons of FY 2024 to FY 2023 are particularly noteworthy.
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Week in Review – The EEOC Continues Changing Course
February 28, 2025
Our “Week in Review” alerts seek to highlight the important activity related to labor and employment each week from the new presidential administration.
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Week in Review – EEOC and NLRB Start Enacting Trump’s Executive Orders, Challenges to Federal Agencies’ Independence, and New Guidance on College Athletes
February 19, 2025
Each week as the new presidential administration takes shape, we get a clearer picture of how its priorities will affect federal agencies, and how those changes will affect the employers and educational institutions that interact with those agencies.
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Trump Takes Unprecedented Action and Other Updates at the EEOC
February 18, 2025
We are less than a month into President Trump’s second term in office and there has been a flurry of activity within the federal government.
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EEOC Sues FedEx Over “Fully Healed” Return-to-Work Requirement
September 25, 2024
The agency’s lawsuit is based on a policy it claims the Company maintained in 2019 that ramp transport drivers who were not “100 % healed after 90 days of light duty work were put on unpaid leave without any discussion of accommodations.
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Testing, Testing, 1,2,3 - Part 1: Title VII
September 17, 2024
I want to take just one or two tenths-of-an-hour of your time (1-12 minutes) to discuss an often-overlooked aspect of retention, promotion, and hiring decisionmaking: employee and applicant testing.
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A Game of Cat and Mouse: Are Your Remote Workers Really Productive?
July 10, 2024
When work went fully remote, employers worried about how they could ensure that employees were clocking their required hours.
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Wait – the EEOC Is Really Serious About the EEO-1 Filing Requirement!
May 31, 2024
Many companies treat the annual EEO-1 filing requirement with, let’s say, some lack of urgency.
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The EEOC’s New Harassment Guidance: What Employers Need to Know
April 29, 2024
On April 29, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its long-promised Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace.
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EEOC Guidance on How to Navigate the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
April 24, 2024
On April 15, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its final regulation to carry out the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
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The EEOC Releases Onerous Final Rule Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
April 16, 2024
On April 15, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a Final Rule and Interpretive Guidance to implement the relatively new Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
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