by Girish Anand | Jul 31, 2011 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) held a wide-ranging meeting on July 26 to discuss a ban on pre-employment criminal background checks. A proposed regulation is expected to be released the week beginning Aug. 1, 2011, or shortly thereafter. In...
by Girish Anand | Jul 29, 2011 | EEOC
Lawyers for the Wal-Mart plaintiffs, whose massive class-action lawsuit was shot down by the U.S. Supreme Court as being too big and unfocused, are back in court today (July 29, 2011) to argue for a revival of the sex-bias complaint but on a narrower basis and with...
by Girish Anand | Jul 29, 2011 | EEOC
In 2009 the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New Haven, Conn., had discriminated against a group of white firefighters who, though they had earned the top scores on an advancement test, were passed over for promotion in favor of minority firefighters because the...
by Girish Anand | Jul 28, 2011 | Health Care Reform
Following a Circuit Court ruling that the individual mandate to purchase health insurance contained in Obamacare is constitutional, the Thomas More Law Center has petitioned the Supreme Court to review the lower court's decision on the Patient Protection and...
by Girish Anand | Jul 26, 2011 | EEOC
In a recent informal discussion letter, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) suggested that employers who maintain both personal health information (PHI) and occupational health information in a single employee file are probably violating the privacy...