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
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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
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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
Can an employee secretly rack up overtime and sue for it later? The Fifth Circuit says not without proof that the employer knew or should have known about those hours. TL;DR: The Fifth Circuit affirmed a defense verdict in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime case because the employee
Some employers try. The Fourth Circuit just explained why that trick doesn’t work for these federal discrimination claims. TL;DR: The Fourth Circuit held that employers cannot contractually shorten the time employees have to file discrimination lawsuits under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) or the
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By now, you’ve likely seen coverage of the Missouri Attorney General’s lawsuit challenging Starbucks’ DEI initiatives. The opinion’s value lies in its doctrinal clarity. It illustrates how established discrimination law applies when DEI-related practices are challenged — and what employers should consider to reduce legal risk when designing and