By Eric B. Meyer Most of you have probably seen or heard about Mean Tweets from Jimmy Kimmel Live! That’s the segment where celebrities stand in front of … Read more
Federal Court Says That Title VII Does Not Prohibit Anti Gay Bias — Yet
By Eric B. Meyer Last week, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission made headlines by filing its first lawsuits against private-sector … Read more
The EEOC Is Going After Companies Accused by Employees of Anti-Gay Bias
By Eric B. Meyer The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is officially stepping into the ring and taking the fight to private-sector employers … Read more
Systemic Discrimination: It’s Also When You Prefer to Hire Women Over Men
By Eric B. Meyer Preferring to hire women instead of men? Yeah, that’s called discrimination. Unless, of course, you’re filling server positions at … Read more
New Study Shows There is Rampant Transgender Discrimination in the Workplace
By Eric B. Meyer On Tuesday, voters in Houston took to the polls and said no to Prop 1. That’s a ballot measure that would have outlawed discrimination at … Read more
Court Finds It Only Takes One Incident to Have a Hostile Work Environment
By Eric B. Meyer Let’s talk about a recent decision by the Richmond, Virginia-based Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in which the appellate court … Read more
Are Federal Courts Now Ruling Transgender Discrimination Is Sex Discrimination?
By Eric B. Meyer Back in April, the EEOC concluded that transgender discrimination is discrimination based on sex and, therefore, violates Title VII. That … Read more
As “BorgataBabes” Case Shows, Employers Can Regulate Workers Weight, Appearance
By Eric B. Meyer Can a company regulate an employee’s weight and appearance? According to a New Jersey appellate court, Atlantic City’s Borgata … Read more
Coming Soon to Congress: A New, Comprehensive LGBT Anti-Discrimination Bill
By Eric B. Meyer On Monday, I got into last week’s EEOC ruling that sexual-orientation discrimination is sex discrimination and, therefore, violates Title … Read more
What the Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Decision Means For the Workplace
OK, presumably I’m not the only employment lawyer trying to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to the employer-employee … Read more