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
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Jennifer A. Riley
On June 2, 2014, Mach Mining filed its Reply in support of its Petition for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court in EEOC v. Mach Mining, Case No. 13-1019 (U.S. June 2, 2014).
In a game-changing decision, in December 2013, the Seventh
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Jennifer A. Riley
This week, the EEOC responded to Mach Mining’s petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in EEOC v. Mach Mining, Case No. 13-1019 (U.S. May 29, 2014). Although the EEOC prevailed in the Seventh Circuit, it backed Mach Mining’s request for
