Today, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals -- the federal appellate court that hears appeals from the federal courts in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee -- held that Title VII protects employees from discrimination on the basis of their transgender or...
Year: 2018
U.S. Court of Appeals Holds that Sexual Orientation Discrimination Violates Title VII
This morning, an en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York, held that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation constitutes sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The...
Thank You!
On this day two years ago, opened its doors. Since then, we've helped countless employees (blue-collar and white-collar alike) and employers (including small business and Fortune 500 companies) make the workplace a better place. We've...
Sexual Harassment Claims to be Exempted from Binding Arbitration Agreements?
If the Attorneys General from all fifty states and several U.S. territories have anything to say about it, yes. On February 12, the National Association of Attorneys General penned a letter, which was also signed by Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, requesting...
#MeToo and #TimesUp Movement Helping Harassment Victims in Kentucky
The list of men in powerful positions accused of sexual abuse, assault, or harassment has been growing by the day. Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Cosby, Larry Nasser, Senator Al Franken, and yes, even President Donald Trump. The list goes on. No...
EEOC Releases 2017 Statistics
The EEOC has released its litigation statistics for 2017. There was a slight drop in total charges filed from 2016, going down from 91,503 charges to 84,254 charges. Once again, however, the highest number of charges were for race discrimination and retaliation, 33.9%...
Class Action Investigation — Student Loan Servicing Practices
Student loan debt ballooned to more than $1.3 trillion in 2017, more than two-and-a-half times the total student loan debt 10 years ago. Debt servicing is a lucrative business, but many services aren't acting in borrowers' best interests. We are now investigating...