By Anita Byer, Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk A new federal law prohibits employers from forcing employees to arbitrate sexual harassment claims. The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act invalidates pre-dispute agreements that force employees to resolve claims of sexual harassment through...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its enforcement and litigation data for fiscal year 2020. COVID-19, it seems, did not impair the EEOC’s ability to enforce the nation’s equal employment opportunity laws. In 2020, the EEOC: received 67,448 charges of workplace discrimination;responded to more than 470,000...
Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, transgender status or sex stereotyping? We don’t know…yet. Three cases currently pending before the United States Supreme Court should give us an answer. Two of these cases involve sexual orientation discrimination. The third...