Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Seven in ten Americans agree that employers should eliminate or reduce blanket-bans that automatically reject job seekers who are ex-offenders with minor and non-violent criminal offenses on their record, according to a national survey conducted by Kelly Services (Kelly) as part of National Second Chance Month in…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On March 31, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) which, effective immediately, legalized the recreational use of marijuana products for adults in the state aged 21 or older, according to a news release on the website of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On March 26, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – filed a lawsuit that claimed a School District in New York violated federal law by paying lower wages to a female superintendent than to a male superintendent…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On March 12, 2021, a lawsuit was filed against FedEx by a job applicant who claimed the delivery company violated New York City’s Fair Chance Act (FCA) that protects people with criminal records from discrimination “when it checked his criminal history before deciding whether to offer him…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day that takes place every year on March 8th to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, and also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality, which includes equal pay for men and women who…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 26, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – an agency advancing opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – released Enforcement and Litigation Statistics with breakdowns for the 67,448 charges of workplace discrimination the agency received in Fiscal Year…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 19, 2021, California Assembly Member Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) introduced Assembly Bill 1256 (AB 1256), a bill that would prohibit employers from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any condition of employment due to the fact that a drug test has found that person…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In January of 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – a government agency that advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – announced that President Joe Biden had appointed Commissioner Charlotte A. Burrows Chair of the EEOC and Commissioner Jocelyn…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 3, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – an agency that advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – announced that two hotel management firms would pay $400,000 and provide extensive non-monetary relief to settle an equal pay…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 8, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) unveiled a new webpage on its website – “Systemic Enforcement at the EEOC” – that explains the use of administrative and litigation tools used to identify and pursue systemic discriminatory practices, according to an EEOC press…
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