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SHRM243 last-minute actions to take as the DOL overtime rule approaches
Converting workers from exempt to nonexempt comes with a need for communication, said Victoria Lipnic, former EEOC commissioner, and Jonathan Segal, partner at Duane Morris LLP.
By Emilie Shumway • June 27, 2024 -
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SHRM24DEI faces ‘delicate and uncomfortable environment,’ SHRM panelists say
Backlash bolstered by the U.S. Supreme Court's college admissions decision is seemingly in tension with diversity’s business case and the country’s shifting dynamics, speakers observed.
By Laurel Kalser • June 26, 2024 -
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SHRM247 tips for workplace documentation that holds up in court, according to a compliance trainer
Specificity and thoroughness are marks of good documentation, said Allison West, founder of Employment Practices Specialists.
By Emilie Shumway • June 25, 2024 -
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NLRB orders Red Rock Casino to return to the bargaining table
The employer allegedly threatened to withhold benefits if workers joined a union and implicitly threatened job loss if employees were to strike.
By Noelle Mateer • June 25, 2024 -
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SCOTUS to hear retired firefighter’s ADA claims
Circuit courts are split over whether former employees who earned post-employment benefits may sue for disability discrimination with respect to those benefits.
By Ryan Golden • June 24, 2024 -
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Title VII turns 606 numbers that define Title VII
Congress spent 534 hours debating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which created Title VII protections and established the EEOC.
By Kathryn Moody • June 24, 2024 -
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John Deere to pay $1.1M over racial discrimination allegations
The company was cited for alleged bias against 277 Black and Hispanic job applicants at facilities in Illinois and Iowa.
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Ex-Neuralink staffer claims she was scratched by infected monkeys, fired over her pregnancy
The Elon Musk-led company failed to provide adequate protection to the employee and demoted her after she complained about safety violations, she alleged.
By Ryan Golden • June 21, 2024 -
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Weis Markets will pay $75,000 to settle EEOC lawsuit alleging it failed to stop sexual harassment
The grocery store chain must also address disability discrimination, after allegedly forcing the harassed employee to participate in an employee assistance program.
By Caroline Colvin • June 20, 2024 -
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EEOC releases anti-harassment guide for contractors
The federal agency wants to empower the industry to make the jobsite safer for all workers, Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels said.
By Julie Strupp • June 20, 2024 -
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EEOC can’t enforce abortion protections in Louisiana and Mississippi, judge rules
The regulation, which requires accommodation for conditions related to pregnancy, took effect June 18.
By Ginger Christ • June 18, 2024 -
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Employer’s lawsuit aims to hold Paylocity responsible for wage and hour settlements
The company failed to properly program timekeeping and payroll software, California canned beverage maker DrinkPAK has alleged.
By Laurel Kalser • June 18, 2024 -
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Judge dismisses states’ challenge of EEOC’s pregnancy accommodation rule
The plaintiffs took issue with accommodations for elective abortions but failed to show the rule was likely to cause any alleged sovereign or economic harm, the court held.
By Ryan Golden • June 17, 2024 -
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Supreme Court backs Starbucks to impose stricter test on NLRB injunctions
The court ordered lower courts to use a four-factor test in place of the two-factor standard used by some circuits when determining whether to grant injunctions in labor disputes.
By Aneurin Canham-Clyne • June 14, 2024 -
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Raytheon’s ‘recent graduate’ job ads amount to age discrimination, class-action lawsuit alleges
The company denied the charges in a statement, saying it “complies with all relevant age discrimination laws.”
By Emilie Shumway • June 14, 2024 -
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Frito-Lay becomes latest employer to settle Kronos outage wage-and-hour claims
The effects from vendor UKG’s Kronos Private Cloud timekeeping and payroll software outage in 2021 have echoed far beyond that year for affected organizations.
By Ryan Golden • June 14, 2024 -
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Former NLRB chair Ring says agency is ‘rewriting’ federal labor law
The remarks come at a pivotal moment in U.S. labor law after several successful union drives nationwide and with NLRB’s Chair Lauren McFerran up for renomination.
By Ryan Golden • June 13, 2024 -
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Honolulu restaurant, HR company settle EEOC suit claiming co-owner targeted gay workers for harassment
The co-owner allegedly exposed his genitals at work, asked for oral sex and commented on male workers’ sexual orientation, EEOC said.
By Ginger Christ • June 12, 2024 -
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NFL player alleges disability bias over denied exemption to use synthetic THC
Former Denver Broncos linebacker Randy Gregory claimed the league refused to grant him a therapeutic use exemption to take physician-prescribed dronabinol.
By Ryan Golden • June 12, 2024 -
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Call center employees aren’t ‘automobile salespersons’ exempt from FLSA overtime, 11th Circuit says
The lower court must now determine if they could be exempt as commission-based employees of a retail or service establishment.
By Laurel Kalser • June 11, 2024 -
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23 GOP attorneys general seek rehearing in Title VII gender surgery case
The 11th Circuit decision “fundamentally transforms Title VII” by not requiring a comparison group to show discrimination, the states argued.
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Public-sector HR director is immune from employee’s lawsuit, 11th Circuit holds
Qualified immunity is appropriate in cases where a government employee acted in an “objectively reasonable manner,” the court said.
By Ryan Golden • June 10, 2024 -
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EEOC names Sivaram Ghorakavi its first chief AI officer
The creation of the chief AI officer role is in response to President Joe Biden’s October 2023 executive order on the trustworthy use of AI.
By Ginger Christ • June 10, 2024 -
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Pharmacist’s request for service dog accommodation wasn’t reasonable, 8th Circuit rules
The appeals court reversed a district court’s order, arguing that a pharmacist “had performed the essential functions of her position” without a service dog.
By Ginger Christ • June 6, 2024 -
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Georgia General Mills plant’s leadership operated racist ‘fraternity,’ suit claims
One instance of intimidation against Black workers allegedly involved the use of General Mills’ brand mascots in a mural depicting them as generals for the Confederacy.
By Ryan Golden • June 6, 2024
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