Seventh Circuit

Time’s Up: Time to Reconsider the “Severe and Pervasive” Standard for Sexual Harassment

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

“The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements constitute a revolution in women’s rights that is too powerful to be turned back,” said Roberta Kaplan, co-founder of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, in October 2018. But a recent Seventh Circuit decision (Swyear v. Fare Foods Corp.) dismissing an employee’s sexual harassment claim could jeopardize the momentum …

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Federal appeals court holds workers can’t be fired for being gay

Leave a Comment / LGBT / By max cyril

With a lopsided majority joined by a bipartisan coalition of judges, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on Tuesday that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation violates federal civil rights law, at least in the context of the workplace. The court telegraphed in an order last October that Hively …

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Employee Rights Short Takes: Hostile Work Environment, GINA, FMLA And More

Leave a Comment / sexual discrimination, sexual harassment / By max cyril

Here are a few Short Takes worth sharing: Sex Bias Case Ends With Huge Punitive Damages Award The drug maker Novartis was hit with $250 million in punitive damages last week because of discrimination against thousands of female sales representatives. Issues involved discrimination in pay, promotion and pregnancy. The punitive damages award represented 2.6 of …

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Seventh Circuit

Time’s Up: Time to Reconsider the “Severe and Pervasive” Standard for Sexual Harassment

Federal appeals court holds workers can’t be fired for being gay

Employee Rights Short Takes: Hostile Work Environment, GINA, FMLA And More

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