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Discrimination / Harassment

Accommodate hairstyles based on religious beliefs

02/03/2023
Discrimination lawsuits involving hairstyles are all the rage—as are new laws and regulations protecting natural and ethnic hairstyles.

Survey: More employers taking action on pay equity

01/31/2023
WorldatWork’s latest Pay Equity Study found that 70% of organizations were taking action on pay equity in 2022, a 10% increase since 2019 and a 4% increase over 2021.

Dodge discrimination claims when diversifying

01/31/2023
There’s a right way and a wrong way to diversify your workforce. The right way is difficult and takes time. The wrong way is to push current employees out of the way.

3 steps to solve an invisible DEI problem: Awareness

01/25/2023
New research conducted by Torch suggests there is a gap in awareness between how well-meaning business leaders think they’re doing on DEI and their actual progress. Three steps can help align leaders’ thinking about their organization’s DEI challenges.

High Court to rule on how to accommodate religious needs

01/24/2023
The upcoming case, Groff v. DeJoy, was filed by U.S. Postal Service employee Gerald, who asked the post office to accommodate his Christian faith needs by not scheduling him to work on Sundays.

Settlement proves race discrimination still rampant

01/18/2023
A Black radiographer who was subject to racist remarks by his white supervisor complained to the company’s vice president, yet no corrective action was taken, and he was fired, according to an EEOC lawsuit.

Supersized harassment settlement highlights the extra care needed when employing minors

01/18/2023
How bad must sexual harassment be for an employer to settle a harassment case for $2 million? This bad.

McDonald’s franchisee to pay almost $2 million to settle sexual harassment lawsuit

01/18/2023
McDonald’s is in the news again for sexual harassment, this time to settle an EEOC suit involving a Kingman, Ariz., franchise owner operating approximately 18 McDonald’s restaurants in Nevada, Arizona and California. The company will pay $1,997,500.

Court dismisses EPA case as push for pay equity intensifies

01/18/2023
To win an EPA case, the worker must show that the opposite sex was paid more for “equal work requiring substantially similar skill, effort and responsibilities performed under similar working conditions.” That’s increasingly difficult in a work environment where numerous new jobs rely on extremely specialized skills, making it almost impossible to prove jobs are substantially similar enough to allow a comparison.

Case of the Week: Ten-hut! Follow Marine Corps’ new religious grooming rules

01/13/2023
Marines Corps basic training strives to tamp down individuality and nonconformity in favor of uniformity in dress and grooming. For decades, male recruits have had to cut their hair, shave their beards and don the Marine uniform. Now a lawsuit by Sikh recruits has forced the Marines to accept that dress and grooming standards can’t be so rigid that they discriminate on the basis of religion.