One of the more grueling tasks connected with HR’s responsibilities is ensuring that the company is in legal compliance with various federal, state, and local rules and regulations...
During fiscal year 1999, 19,694 charges of discrimination were filed with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC), up 77% from the 11,096 charges files in fiscal year 1992...
A judge ruled that a speak-English-only policy implemented by a former long distance operator service constituted national origin discrimination. He awarded 13 Hispanic employees over $700,000 in damages, the largest monetary award ever obtained by the EEOC in a lawsuit for English-only violations.
Judicial interpretations of the laws barring sexual harassment
continue to evolve, especially in the wake of three key U.S.
Supreme Court decisions in 1997 and 1998. This article presents
some of the trickier recent decisions.
Finding that punctuality can be an essential function of a job, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the ADA claims of a worker whose habitual tardiness was caused by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)...
