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April 28, 2025 Executives Face Harassment, Too—and Women Usually Have the Most to Lose
Category: #MeToo, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Kristen Prinz, sexual harassment, Sports, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture
March 30, 2025 What Do Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for DEI?
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Compliance , Discrimination, DOL, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Government, Handbook Compliance, Human Resources, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Politics, Title VII, Workplace culture
March 27, 2025 Deception, Discrimination, and Severance, Oh My! An Appeals Court Ruling against the Chicago White Sox Might Affect Future Severance Negotiations
Category: Chicago, Contract Law, Courts, Discrimination, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Illinois, LGBTQ, Mary F. Charlton, Severance, Sports, Termination, Workplace Discrimination
January 31, 2025 Trump Has Purged Top EEOC Officials. What Does That Mean for Workers?
Category: Discrimination, Diversity, EEOC, Employment Law, For Employees, Government, Legal Changes, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Politics, Strategic Planning, Termination, Title VII, Workplace Discrimination, Wrongful Termination
December 23, 2024 Many New Employment Law Changes Are Coming to Illinois in 2025
Category: AI , Anti-Discrimination, Compliance , Contingency Planning, Disability, Discrimination, DOL, Employment Law, Equal Pay, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Human Resources, Illinois, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Minimum Wage, Wages
September 04, 2024 Can You Be Pregnant and an All-Star? The WNBA Wrestles with Allegations of Discrimination—and Its Commitment to Its Players.
Category: Accommodation, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Human Resources, Kristin Hendriksen, Leave from work, Pregnancy, Retaliation, Sports, Title VII, WNBA, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture
September 25, 2023 Can Layoffs Hide Discrimination Claims?
Category: Discrimination, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Workplace Discrimination
August 22, 2023 What Can the Lizzo Lawsuit Teach Us about Our Workplaces?
Category: Allison Wolcott, Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace, Workplace culture, Workplace Jerks
July 21, 2023 Did the Supreme Court Say Businesses Can Now Discriminate Against LGBT Customers—and Employees Too?
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Discrimination, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Religion, Supreme Court, Title VII, Workplace discipline
June 30, 2023 How Will the Affirmative Action Ruling Impact Employment Law Claims?
Category: Discrimination, Diversity, Employment Law, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Legal Changes, Race, Supreme Court, Title VII, Workplace Discrimination
June 23, 2023 LGBT People Are Under Attack This Pride Month. Here Are 10 Things Employers Can Do to Support Us.
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Compensation, Digital Workplace, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, Equal Pay, For Employers, Human Resources, Leave from work, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, Remote Working, Title VII, Wage Gap, Work from home, Workplace culture, Workplace Discrimination
March 09, 2023 Modern-Day Slavery and Employment Law
Category: Compensation, Discrimination, Employment Law, FLSA, Labor trafficking, Legal Advocacy, Minimum Wage, Overtime, Poonam Lakhani, Wage Claims
January 11, 2023 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act Was Amended. What Does This Mean for You?
Category: Accommodation, Anti-Discrimination, Discrimination, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Laura Feldman, Pregnancy, Women in the Workplace
December 21, 2022 What Does the Speak Out Act Mean for Workplaces?
Category: #MeToo, Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Discrimination, Employee Relations, Employment Law, Employment Laws, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Legal Advocacy, Legal Changes, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, sexual harassment, Women in the Workplace, Workplace Discrimination
December 16, 2022 New Year, New Laws: Legal Changes on the Horizon in Illinois
Category: Discrimination, Employment Law, Employment Laws, Equal Pay, For Employees, For Employers, Human Resources, Illinois, Leave from work, Legal Changes, Liability, Minimum Wage, Poonam Lakhani
April 20, 2022 The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Shatters Another Glass Ceiling!
Category: Compensation, Discrimination, Equal Pay, Gender Neutrality, Navdeep Gill, Sports, Title VII, Wage Gap, Women in the Workplace
February 21, 2022 How to Advocate for Your Safety in the Workplace
Category: Accommodation, ADA, ADEA, Anti-Discrimination, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Discrimination, EEOC, Employee Relations, Employment Law, For Employees, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, NLRA, OSHA, Positive Work Environment, Title VII
December 29, 2021 The Washington Football Team, Jon Gruden, and Employment Law
Category: Amit Bindra, Discrimination, Employment Law, sexual harassment, Sports, Women in the Workplace, Workplace investigations
October 26, 2021 Chappelle, Netflix, and the Trans Community: What Should a Business Do When Its Employees Are Offended by Its Products?
Category: Company Values, Discrimination, Diversity, Employment Law, For Employers, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Race, Workplace culture
June 29, 2021 3 Ways Working from Home Can Improve DEI Efforts
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Digital Workplace, Disability, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Positive Work Environment, Race, Religion, Title VII, Women in the Workplace, Work from home, Workplace culture
May 26, 2021 Investigating the EEOC: Has the Nation’s Workplace Watchdog Itself Engaged in Discrimination?
Category: Discrimination, EEOC, Government, Marcet Crockett, Title VII
May 12, 2021 The Top Three Pitfalls of Hiring to Increase Diversity and How to Avoid Them
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Company Values, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Kristen Prinz, Positive Work Environment, Strategic Planning
April 09, 2021 Pregnant Workers May Gain Increased Protections
Category: ADA, Company Values, Disability, Discrimination, Employment Law, For Employees, Human Resources, Laura Lefkow-Hynes, Pregnancy, Women in the Workplace
February 25, 2021 Black History Month Calls Us to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
Category: Anti-Discrimination, Christina Hynes Mesco, Company Values, Discrimination, Diversity, Employee Relations, For Employers, Human Resources, Race, Workplace culture
January 12, 2021 Can You Be Fired for Storming the Capitol?
Category: Company Values, Congress, Discrimination, Employment Law, For Employees, For Employers, Government, Kristen Prinz, Politics, Poonam Lakhani
December 18, 2020 Have Uber Ratings Led to Racial Discrimination?
Category: Discrimination, Liability, Madeline Schmit, Title VII, Wrongful Termination
September 22, 2020 Midwest High Court: Religious Employers May Discriminate Against—But Not Abuse—Their Employees
Category: Disability, Discrimination, LGBTQ, Matt Tedeschi, Religion, Sexual Harassment Policies, Supreme Court, Wrongful Termination
July 30, 2020 “Religious” Employees Have Been Stripped of Their Rights. How Should They and Their Employers Respond?
Category: ADA, Company Values, Disability, Discrimination, Employee Relations, For Employees, For Employers, Matt Tedeschi, Positive Work Environment, Religion, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment Policies, Supreme Court