Monthly Archives: March 2026

For nearly a decade, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said denying a transgender employee access to the restroom matching that employee’s gender identity violated Title VII. Last month, the agency reversed course. Private employers should read the fine print before changing anything. TL;DR: Last month, the EEOC ruled that

That escalated quickly. A university fired its HR director and asked him to return his work laptop. He refused for months. Campus police eventually obtained a felony arrest warrant. When the former employee finally showed up with the laptop, officers arrested him. He then sued for retaliation. TL;DR: The U.S.

  Sometimes the accommodation request itself tells the whole story. In a recent Fourth Circuit Rehabilitation Act decision, a federal air marshal asked to stay in a ground-based role permanently after medical conditions prevented her from flying. But in doing so, she also acknowledged that she could not perform the

  One employee tried exactly that. The Seventh Circuit explained why it didn’t work. TL;DR: An employee failed to return to work after her approved leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) expired. After the employer terminated her for failing to return, she attempted to retroactively report several