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The 30th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) will take place in Philadelphia, PA April 23rd-25th. Once...
The comment period for the proposed sex discrimination rule ends today, April 14, 2015. The original March 31st deadline was extended, due to the...
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The facts of the case are that Peggy Young, a part-time truck driver for UPS, became pregnant and was restricted by her doctor from lifting more than...
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On April 8, 2015, updates to Executive Order (EO) 11246 per EO 13672 took effect, prohibiting discrimination by all covered federal contractors and...
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On March 18, 2015, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a news release providing the most up-to-date...
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In accordance with the revised Section 503 regulations, Federal contractors are now collecting voluntary self-identifications of disability status...
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As outlined in 41 CFR 60-3, contractors are required to analyze personnel activity to determine if there are barriers to equal employment for...
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The final rule for prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was published December 9, 2014. This rule becomes...
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We have discussed the Freeman case in several Alerts (8/22/12, 9/14/13 & 3/3/14). The challenge was to Freeman’s use of background checks and...
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The case is Williamson v. Lowe’s, decided on 2/24/15 by Judge Susan Oki Mollway of the District Court of Hawaii [2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13170]. The...
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The case is EEOC v. Allstate, decided by the 3rd Circuit on 2/13/15 [2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 2330]. Historically, Allstate agents worked through Sears...
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As other blogs have noted, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the long-awaited revisions to the Sex Discrimination Guidelines (RIN...