Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 15, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – an agency that enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – released its Fiscal Year 2023 Agency Financial Report (AFR) that provided a high-level overview of key performance results, according to an EEOC press release. The EEOC strategically…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The City of Boston, Massachusetts, “has paid $2.6 million to settle a longstanding federal discrimination lawsuit alleging that a ‘hair test’ used by the City to identify drug use on its police force was discriminatory, unreliable, and scientifically flawed,” according to a press release on the Lawyers for…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 8, 2023, the United States Senate voted to confirm Chair Charlotte A. Burrows to a third term on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – with the term expiring on July 1, 2028, according to a press release from…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed 143 new employment discrimination lawsuits in fiscal year (FY) 2023 from October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2023, representing more than a 50 percent increase over fiscal year 2022 lawsuit filings, according to preliminary data in a press release from…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 23, 2023, Karla Gilbride was sworn in as General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Gilbride was nominated by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 3, 2023, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a four-year term on October 17, 2023, according to…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 19, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that a variety store retailer has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the EEOC alleging that its hiring process violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – has issued a newly updated resource document titled “Visual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act.” The EEOC enforces and provides guidance on the…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – has issued its “Proposed Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace” to help protect workers, according to a press release from the EEOC. The proposed guidance explains…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that it secured a settlement agreement with a Miami, Florida-based janitorial services company to resolve alleged violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against non-U.S. citizens during Form I-9 employment eligibility verification. The DOJ’s investigation determined that…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 21, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – released its Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) for Fiscal Years 2024-2028, according to a press release from the EEOC. The EEOC SEP for Fiscal Years…
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