The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced new resources to help employers, employees, and applicants understand the EEOC’s position regarding sexual orientation and...
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The Bostock Decision Will Affect Benefit Plans: Are You Prepared?
Important legislation recently passed amended Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964. This legislation broadened the scope of sex in the law to...
U.S. Supreme Court: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Is Protected Under Civil Rights Act
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from job discrimination. Justice Gorsuch wrote the opinion by the court. He...
Department of Labor Issues First Opinion Letters of 2020
On January 7, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) issued a trio of new opinion letters concerning issues related to the Fair Labor Standards...
California Appeals Court Rules Termination was not Discriminatory
In Esson v. Stanford Hosp. & Clinics (Cal. Ct. App., 2019), the court found that an at-will senior IT program manager for Stanford Hospital and...
Positive Performance Management for the New Workplace
Progressive discipline is rooted in the decades-old mindset that treating people progressively worse will cause them to improve, or at least protect the organization from...
NLRB: Joint-Employer Rule Comment Period Extended
On December 10, 2018, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) once again extended the comment period on its new rule regarding the joint-employer standard. Under...
NLRB: Rulemaking on Joint Employment Standard
Since Browning-Ferris (2015) was decided by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), employers have been struggling to stay ahead of the ever-changing landscape of agency interpretations...
Colorado Marijuana Coverage
Cannabis in the workplace: Businesses hiring pot smokers more than ever Employers Council Attorney Curtis Graves discusses off-duty marijuana usage. Greencamp News, May 3, 2018 New bill would prohibit...
Dealing with Unconscious Bias
Unconscious or implicit bias can be a difficult concept. After all, how do we address biases in our employees of which they may not even...