Does your workplace have anti-harassment policies? What about anti-discrimination policies? It probably does. If not it probably should. If ever an employee filed a charge with the EEOC or a state agency or sued, that’s one of the first documents an employer would have to produce. Not being able to do so could be the […]
The EEOC’s Proposed New Enforcement Guidance on Harassment
Last month the EEOC published its proposed new Enforcement Guidance on Harassment. Wait. Didn’t EEOC Commissioners Chai Feldblum and Victoria Lipnic present a Report of the Co-Chairs of the Select Task Force on Harassment in the Workplace (“Harassment Prevention Report”) last year? Yep. I previously posted about that Report here. You may remember from my post that […]
Should We Be Tolerating Zero-Tolerance Workplace Policies?
We know that zero-tolerance policies are used and touted in many workplaces (and schools), regarding drugs, bullying, harassment and all types of violence, but do they work? Is the workplace and are our schools safer because they have zero-tolerance policies? Do you feel safer? Last week we took our first glimpse at zero-tolerance policies, how […]
The Almost-Final Piece on the EEOC and Workplace Retaliation…
OK, this is it, the countdown. This is the next-to-last installment of our scintillating mini-series on the EEOC and Workplace Retaliation. You’ll only catch it here. It’s not in theaters or on T.V. It’s not even on YouTube. OK, I went a bit overboard there. Let’s get back to our topic and focus. We now […]
More on the EEOC and Workplace Retaliation
We were in the middle of the EEOC’s Enforcement Guidance on Workplace Retaliation last week. We left off discussing what activity would be opposition to discrimination (and therefore protected from retaliation). Click here for review. Who exactly is protected from opposition-based retaliation? What might be some good examples of opposition? Who would be included among people engaging […]