Refusing to hire ex-convicts may violate federal prohibitions against race and national origin discrimination, according to new enforcement guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Because black and Hispanic individuals are arrested and convicted at higher rates than other groups, the EEOC reasons that discrimination on the basis of a criminal background may have a [...]
The Obama Administration may go down in history as the Administration of Enforcement: investigations of worker misclassification and wage and hour issues are way up. Now we’re seeing it also applies to the civil rights arena. Last year was a record-setting year for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It received more charges than ever, resolved [...]
As published in the July 25, 2011 CT Law Tribune
Ricci v. DeStefano, a case that garnered national media attention, has finally come to a close as the City of New Haven, Connecticut offered to pay over $5 million to conclude the case. In 2003, Caucasian firefighters claimed reverse discrimination because the City of New Haven threw out their promotion test results because too few [...]
Have you ever had a case where an employee just refused to cooperate and you wanted to fire him or her for such conduct even though the person was in a protected class? In a recent case in Massachusetts, an employer did just that and beat the predicted lawsuit that followed. in Windross v. Barton [...]