Number 20:  Bipartisan Gridlock Prevents Sexual Orientation From Becoming A Protected Class  The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), if passed, would become the first federal legislation that prohibits employers from discriminating against…

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Number 19:  HIV/AIDS Is a Protected Disability Under The ADA The social, economic and public health effects of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s propelled public health and community-based organizations…

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Number 18: When Is An Employer Liable For Harassment By Its Employees? Although Title VII was passed in 1964, it wasn’t until 1998 that the United States Supreme Court handed…

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Number 17:  What Happens When An Employer Has Mixed Motives? What happens when an employer decides to terminate an employee for discriminatory and non-discriminatory reasons?  The Supreme Court gave a…

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Number 16: Employers Fight Against Title VII Lawsuits With Summary Judgment Summary judgment motions have long been in the toolkit for employers to combat weak and frivolous Title VII claims…

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Number 15: Affirmative Action For Federal Contractors And Subcontractors Within months of signing Title VII into law, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 on September 24, 1965, establishing…

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Number 14:  Discrimination Laws Apply To State And Local Government Employees Title VII, as enacted in 1964, had a rather large coverage gap: millions of American workers employed by State…

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Number 13: Equal Pay Gets A Boost In The Obama Administration The Equal Pay Act, which mandates equal pay between the sexes for equal work, actually became law before Title…

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Number 12: The FMLA Becomes Law In 1993 Just over twenty years ago, employees who needed to take time off work for an extended period to tend to their own…

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Number 11: Workplace Investigations and the Good Faith Standard Allegations of employee misconduct – particularly as they relate to claims of discrimination and harassment – have been raised in the…

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