Law and the Workplace

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EEOC Releases Proposed Workplace Harassment Guidelines After Six Year Delay

By Evandro Gigante, Jurate Schwartz, Laura Fant and David Gobel on Posted in Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation
On October 2, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) published long-anticipated proposed guidance related to workplace harassment. If adopted by the EEOC, the enforcement guidance would supersede four existing EEOC guidance documents issued during the 1990s, as well as a section of the EEOC Compliance Manual on harassment. Members of the public have … Continue Reading

7th Circuit Reverses Denial of Class Certification for Disparate Impact Subclasses

By Steven J. Pearlman, Edward Young and Alyssa M. Cook on Posted in Class/Collective Action
Seventh Circuit SealOn January 6, 2022, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois erred in denying class certification to putative subclasses of unsuccessful Black job applicants who alleged that hiring exams used by the Cook County Department of Corrections (“DOC”) resulted in a disparate impact on … Continue Reading
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