What to Do if You’re the Victim of Workplace Harassment
By Deryn Sumner, December 13, 2017 First, a joke. My husband and I were walking down the street recently when he turned to me and asked, if Santa Claus knows if you’ve been bad or good, how did he not pick up on the fact that Rudolph was being bullied by the other...EEOC’s 2017 Performance and Accountability Report
By Deryn Sumner, December 13, 2017 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2017. You can find the complete report here: https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/plan/upload/2017par.pdf The bulk of the...Collateral Attacks: Cooler Sounding Than They Actually Are
By Deryn Sumner, November 20, 2017 Collateral attack. Sounds pretty cool on its face, like a move you’d use to take down your opponent in a street fighting video game. In reality, it’s just a basis for an agency to dismiss a formal EEO complaint because the...Agency Shows It Would Have Been Undue Hardship to Grant Unpaid Leave to Employee as Religious Accommodation
By Deryn Sumner, November 15, 2017 Although we see many more cases involving claims addressing the federal government’s obligation to accommodate employees with disabilities, the federal government also has an obligation to reasonably accommodate employees’ religion. ...What’s a “Factor Other Than Sex” in Equal Pay Act Claims?
By Deryn Sumner, November 15, 2017 As we’ve discussed previously in this space, if an employee establishes a prima facie claim of sex discrimination under the Equal Pay Act, the agency can assert a defense by pointing to a factor “other than sex” that explains the...Upcoming Events
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Course Description Whether you’re an HR professional, employee relations practitioner, EEO specialist, supervisor, or agency counsel, you have undoubtedly faced a leave-related challenge. And chances are, you struggled. We understand. Leave is an entitlement. But[...]