In January, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), the federal agency charged with enforcing anti-discrimination laws, issued proposed new harassment guidance seeking input from the public. The public comment period ended March 21, 2017. One big take away from the Guidance is that it is the EEOC’s position that discrimination and harassment based on sexual […]
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Month: March 2017
Title VII Does Not Protect Sexual Orient...
On March 10, 2017, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (with jurisdiction in Florida, Georgia and Alabama) in a majority split decision, affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a former employee’s suit against her employer. The plaintiff alleged discrimination in violation of Title VII on the basis of her sexual orientation as a lesbian and […]