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Supreme Court to Consider Whether Title VII Covers LGBT Bias

On Monday, April 22nd, the U.S. Supreme Court said that it will hear three cases that turn on whether existing civil rights bans on discrimination in the workplace under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 include discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender status. The decision will determine the issue that has […]

CA Law Prohibits Reliance on Salary History

Last week, in a law designed to narrow the gender wage gap, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 168, which prohibits all employers[1] from relying on the salary history information of an applicant to determine: (1) whether to offer employment or (2) what salary to offer.  An employer “shall not, orally or in […]

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The EEOC’s Assault on Employers’ Parental Leave Policies Continues

There is a reason that employment lawyers often find ourselves warning clients that, “No good deed goes unpunished.” Case in point: many companies offer paid parental leave policies that specifically address and provide paid leave for new mothers to bond with their newborn child. What could possibly be unlawful about that? In many cases, those […]

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