By Matthew J. Gagnon, and Christopher J. DeGroff
Seyfarth Synopsis: With uncertain times and profound changes anticipated for the EEOC, employers anxiously await what enforcement litigation the EEOC has in store. Although 2016 showed a marked decline in filings, fiscal year 2017 shows a return to vigorous enforcement filings, with a substantial number of
By Christopher DeGroff, and Matthew Gagnon
In the words of the immortal bard Yogi Berra, “it’s like déjà vu all over again.”
As we have reported in years past (see here and here), the EEOC has a predictable trend of filing a flurry of lawsuits in the last days of its fiscal year,
Today I had the privilege of attending the 6th Annual Forum on Defending Employment Discrimination Litigation hosted by the American Conference Institute in New York, New York (I spoke on defense strategies for defending high stakes, multi-party age discrimination lawsuits).
Constance Barker, one of the five Commissioners at the Equal
By Paul Kehoe
Today, without the fanfare of a public meeting, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published Guidance on its website addressing the treatment of pregnancy under Title VII. Once again, it appears as if the EEOC adopted a position exceeding the statutory mandate that Congress bestowed upon it. Requiring employers to provide a
