The Supreme Court of the United States has scheduled oral argument in three cases asking whether employment discrimination on the basis of an employee’s sexual orientation and gender identity constitutes sex discrimination in violation of Title VII. In May, the 6th...
Year: 2019
Court tosses EEOC employer guidance on use of criminal history
In 2012, the EEOC published guidelines for employers cautioning them on the use of arrest and conviction records when making hiring and other employment decisions. Since that time, if not well before, employers were advised against two practices: using arrest and...
Black worker asks U.S. Supreme Court to decide scope of Title VII
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of their race with respect to their “terms” and “conditions” of employment. David Peterson, a former employee of Linear Controls, Inc., an electrical and...
Part 2: How does Kentucky law treat unequal pay between genders?
In part 1 of this post, we talked about the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s lawsuit alleging that its employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation, paid team members less than members of their male counterpart, the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team. In that blog, we...
Part 1: Biggest unequal pay story in the news: Women’s soccer
The U.S Women’s National Soccer Team (WNT) recently won the World Cup against the Netherlands. But right behind the win, the media has widely covered the lawsuit filed in March by 28 of the female soccer players against its employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF)....
Feds find Kentucky restaurant violated wage-and-hour laws
A federal investigation recently found that a Central City restaurant violated federal labor laws. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division ordered the employer to pay eight employees a total of $78,562, a combination of back wages and liquidated damages....
Kentucky restricts employer shortening of lawsuit deadlines
A new Kentucky law that took effect last month places limits on an employer’s ability to require employees, as a condition of employment, to submit to mandatory arbitration to resolve future employment disputes. Another part of the same law, however, also allows...