Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn An agreement has been reached in the case of The Fortune Society v. Macy’s brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Fair Chance Act (FCA) of the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) that sought to address criminal background checks by…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The United States economy added 1.4 million jobs while the unemployment rate declined to 8.4 percent in August 2020, improvements reflecting the resumption of economic activity curtailed due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it, according to the jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 28, 2020, the Louisiana Supreme Court (LASC) issued an emergency order suspending all prescriptive, peremptive, and abandonment periods statewide for a period of thirty (30) days from the declaration of a state of emergency by Governor John Bel Edwards on August 21, 2020, due to…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 1, 2020, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) began enforcing the Wage Equity Ordinance to make it illegal for employers to ask applicants applying for a job in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about their current or prior salary history or to use that information to determine…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 10, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a September 2019 Connecticut district court decision that dismissed a lawsuit claiming violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) because a consumer had not notified a Credit Reporting Agency (CRA) of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The rate of urine drug testing positivity in the combined U.S. workforce increased to a sixteen-year high in 2019, climbing to 4.5 percent, the highest level since 2003 and more than 28 percent higher than the thirty-year low of 3.5 percent recorded between 2010 and 2012, according…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 24, 2020, a Pennsylvania man filed a class action lawsuit in federal court claiming TransUnion violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by mislabeling him as a terrorist on his credit report because his name resembled two people on a terrorist watch list, a news…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Several courthouses in Louisiana and Texas were closed due to the effects of Hurricane Laura, a large tropical storm that came ashore near the border of Louisiana and Texas early on August 27, 2020, according to a news alert from a website maintained by the Administrative Office…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 5, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released two technical assistance documents that addressed concerns about the opioid addiction epidemic and the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), according to a press release from the EEOC. The two…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 24, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it is seeking comments on proposed changes that would bring several rules implementing parts of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in line with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, according to a…
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