Age Discrimination in Employment

In enacting the self-leave provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act, was Congress seeking to address gender discrimination in the workplace That was the question at the center of the debate Wednesday...

Arrivals strengthen firm's labor and employment capabilities CHICAGO -- The Chicago law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP announced today that it has opened a Milwaukee office with the addition of partner Charles...

WHEN TIRZAH KEMP WAS ARRESTED in 1999, she was afraid of what she could lose. Taken into custody on first-degree assault charges after a domestic dispute with her then-boyfriend, Kemp, whose son was...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has approved a final regulation saying that an employment practice that adversely impacts older workers is discriminatory unless the practice is justified by a "reasonable factor...

Goncalves v. Plymouth County Sheriff's Department, 1st Cir., No. 10-2063 (Oct. 7, 2011). An employee's discrimination claim arising from the denial of a promotion was properly dismissed when she failed to demonstrate that...

Constitutional Claims and Civil Rights Student and parents sought review of summary judgment granted in favor of school district and college regarding violations of stuent's free exercise of religion and right to due...

I. INTRODUCTION: THE SUPREME COURT SETS A COLORBLIND PARADIGM . . .[I]n finding that a segregated law school for Negroes could not provide them equal educational opportunities, this Court relied in large part...

Articles Mark C. Weber, A New Look at Section 504 and the ADA in Special Education Cases, 16 Tex. J. on Civ. Liberties & Civ. Rights 1 (2010). The author argues that children...

Results of a major research project for the Cultural Diversity Network are to be published next year. The BBC had an inauspicious start to its presidency of the Cultural Diversity Network (CDN) in...

INTRODUCTION Economic transition was a period of economic, political, and social change in all of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The transition process in Serbia was especially turbulent, with the...

HEADNOTE What Employers and their Advisers Need to Know for 2012 To borrow Bob Dy La ? 'S phrase, "lhe tones they are a-ehangìn'" when it comes to labor law. While our state's...

The claim accrual rules of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act did not preserve the age discrimination claims of plaintiffs who accepted lower paying jobs when their positions were eliminated, the 10th Circuit...

Are employers required under the Americans with disabilities act to accommodate someone who can't perform essential job functions? What if the employer provides an accommodation and the employee still has problems doing the...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. -- Jeffrey S. Kahn, a shareholder in the Palm Beach County office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig P.A., chaired the firm's Annual Employee Benefits Conference held in...

A juggler's guide to having it all "THE MOST STRESSFUL thing about having this baby was arranging cover at work for the time I was going to be away," says Sara Leclerc, an...

Women have made huge progress in the workplace, but still get lower pay and far fewer top jobs than men. Barbara Beck asks why WHEN HILDA SOLIS was at high school, a male...

With little guidance from courts, many companies are mining social media sites for information about job applicants that can't be found on a resume - and risking lawsuits in the process. "There's been...

The Beatles first posed the question: "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" Today, members of the workforce are adding: "Will you still employ me, when I'm...

A Chicago lawyer faces disbarment after a federal appeals court decided yesterday that he had outright "massacred" his client's chances of success in an employment discrimination case. "Judges are better able than clients...