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EEOC Title VII Discrimination Enforcement: Transitioning to Protect the...
April showers bring May flowers, but recently April has brought a flurry of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) discrimination enforcement directed to the protection of transgender...
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Potty Police: OSHA Issues Transgender Bathroom Access Guidance
This past legislative session, Florida lawmakers put forth a bill which would have required transgender individuals to use the restroom of their assigned gender from birth. The bill underwent several...
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Three in a Row – the EEOC Has Just Filed a Third Lawsuit Directed to...
Following up on my earlier posts here and here, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has just filed a third lawsuit in which it charged an employer with sex discrimination of a...
View ArticleOsceola County Passes Human Rights Ordinance
Following up on my post from August 5, 2015 , Osceola County, Florida will become the latest county in Florida to prohibit discrimination against gay and transgender people after the Osceola County...
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Risky Business – Excluding Customers Based on Sexual Orientation
Recently, an Oregon Appeals Court upheld a 2013 ruling by Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries, which found that a Portland pub owner violated a state statute prohibiting private businesses from...
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Potty Problems at Hobby Lobby
I have posted on the dangers of an employer being the potty police before. Now comes news that Hobby Lobby, already known for their conservative and religious based employment policies, has run afoul...
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Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance Defeated Due to Potty Politics
For the last few months, I’ve been posting about bathroom access policies and the problems employers run into when they act as the potty police. See my posts here and here. Now, comes news that a...
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Transgender Mechanic’s Discrimination Claims Survive in the Eleventh Circuit
As a follow up to my earlier posts here, here and here, Title VII is now, quite regularly, being interpreted to protect transgender employees under its gender identity or sex stereotyping protections....
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More Potty Police Activities
Following up on my prior potty posts here and here, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has recently settled a lawsuit involving a transgender employee which involved claims that the...
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HB2 – Trying to Flush It Down the Drain
By many accounts, North Carolina has lost in excess of $400 million in business revenue (and a whole lot of basketball games) due to HB2. HB2, for those who don’t know, is the controversial law that...
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Third Time’s the Charm – City of Jacksonville Passes Human Rights Ordinance...
After previous efforts that failed in 2012 and 2016, the City of Jacksonville, Florida has now passed an expanded human rights ordinance (“HRO”) that provides employment and housing protections based...
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Texas Dives Into the Toilet Controversy
Back in 2015 Houston, Texas attempted to and failed to pass an expanded human equal rights ordinance (“HERO”) which would have made it illegal to discriminate against someone based on 15 different...
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Three in a Row – the EEOC Has Just Filed a Third Lawsuit Directed to...
Following up on my earlier posts here and here, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has just filed a third lawsuit in which it charged an employer with sex discrimination of a...
View ArticleOsceola County Passes Human Rights Ordinance
Following up on my post from August 5, 2015 , Osceola County, Florida will become the latest county in Florida to prohibit discrimination against gay and transgender people after the Osceola County...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Risky Business – Excluding Customers Based on Sexual Orientation
Recently, an Oregon Appeals Court upheld a 2013 ruling by Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries, which found that a Portland pub owner violated a state statute prohibiting private businesses from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Potty Problems at Hobby Lobby
I have posted on the dangers of an employer being the potty police before. Now comes news that Hobby Lobby, already known for their conservative and religious based employment policies, has run afoul...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance Defeated Due to Potty Politics
For the last few months, I’ve been posting about bathroom access policies and the problems employers run into when they act as the potty police. See my posts here and here. Now, comes news that a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Transgender Mechanic’s Discrimination Claims Survive in the Eleventh Circuit
As a follow up to my earlier posts here, here and here, Title VII is now, quite regularly, being interpreted to protect transgender employees under its gender identity or sex stereotyping protections....
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Potty Police Activities
Following up on my prior potty posts here and here, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has recently settled a lawsuit involving a transgender employee which involved claims that the...
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