Seyfarth Synopsis: A seemingly innocuous case filed by the EEOC on behalf of a single charging party against a casino operator highlights some of the risks of betting at the conciliation table. Employers take note!
As its FY 2016 wound down, the EEOC filed suit against a casino operator – in
By Christopher DeGroff, Reema Kapur, and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.
We are pleased to offer a year-end bonus for all of our loyal readers of our blog – a pre-publication preview of our annual study of EEOC litigation is here: the launch of our book entitled EEOC-Initiated Litigation: Case Law Developments In 2013
By Dennis A. Clifford and Christopher J. DeGroff
As we previously blogged here, the EEOC has historically paid particular interest to cases involving gender stereotypes, with various degrees of success. As many courts have observed, harassment based on a perceived failure to conform with gender stereotypes is not necessarily harassment “because of sex” under
By Christopher DeGroff, Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., and Lily M. Strumwasser
“Here we go again.” It is the collective groan heard from employers across the country as they braced for the annual EEOC’s fiscal-year-end filing campaign. With 48 EEOC-initiated lawsuits filed in just the last 30 days, employers were understandably concerned.
By Laura J. Maechtlen and Brian Wong
As the EEOC trains its focus on systemic enforcement actions, discovery battles over probative claimant information will continue to grow in importance proportionally with the claimant class size. Employer access to specific types of claimant information can make a critical difference in mounting key defenses, testing claimant credibility,
Loyal readers of our blog – here is a webinar focused on one of the most vexing challenges of workplace law – dealing with the EEOC’s enforcement program.
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 12:00pm Central / 1:00pm Eastern, Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Christopher DeGroff, co-chairs of the firm’s Complex Discrimination Litigation group, will
