OFCCP rescinds prior guidance and issues new directive relating to pay discrimination *

USA - March 1 2013
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") rescinded prior guidance on pay discrimination investigations and issued a new…

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EEOC approves strategic plan establishing enforcement priorities *

USA - December 21 2012
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") recently approved a Strategic Enforcement Plan to establish national enforcement priorities and…

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EEOC issues new guidance relating to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking *

USA - October 31 2012
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued guidance highlighting how Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act may apply to situations involving applicants and employees who experience domestic or dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

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Federal court dismisses former employee's lactation rights claim but allows retaliation claim to proceed *

USA - July 24 2012
A federal district court in Iowa recently held, in Salz v. Casey's Marketing Company, that a former employee cannot maintain a lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") for an employer's failure to provide reasonable break time and a private space to express breast milk, but that retaliation claims relating to complaints concerning lactation rights may proceed in court.

Co-authors: Richard W. Diaz.

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NLRB issues second report on use of social media in the workplace *

USA - February 1 2012
National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon recently issued a second report reviewing fourteen NLRB decisions involving employee use of social media and online communications.

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