Blog Posts in June, 2010

In a victory for non-traditional families , the Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division has recently issued a clarification of what the terms “son” and “daughter” mean with the effect of ...

Actions constituting sexual harassment or those that create a hostile work environment can take many forms such as lewd comments, inappropriate touching, and sexually explicit joke telling. Despite ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), provides that disability discrimination is illegal. Specifically, the ADA prohibits discrimination against “qualified individuals with a disability” ...

In May a federal jury awarded a Muslim Egyptian-born man over $3.6 million, as the result of severe religious and race discrimination that forced him to resign from his job at the University of Texas ...

In a recent decision, Alvarado v. Corporate Cleaning Service, Inc. , a federal judge for the Northern District of Illinois determined that window washers may proceed against their employer with a ...

In a recent sexual harassment case , an administrative assistant asserted that her company’s response to her complaints of sexual harassment under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act created a ...