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Australia
Cooper Grace Ward
Brief reminder of changes to the sexual harassment laws, summary of the landmark judgment & key takeaways for employers.
Belgium
Altius
On 18 April 2024, a new Act to better protect employees undergoing infertility treatment was published in the Belgian State Gazette.
Osborne Clarke
The impact of AI spans across various sectors, with notable implications observed in the employment relationship.
Canada
MLT Aikins LLP
As health-care professionals, pharmacists know firsthand that the prevalence of mental health injuries has steadily increased in recent years. It is also no secret that many of those conditions...
Clark Wilson LLP
Can an employer terminate an employee who is on sick leave? This is a question many employers have been grappling with lately and frustratingly the answer is usually not straight forward.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
On March 27, 2024, Bill 42, An Act to prevent and fight psychological harassment and sexual violence in the workplace (Act), was sanctioned by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec.
Fasken
The Alberta courts found that a private school discriminated against two students by not allowing them to pray at school. This decision is a good reminder...
Rubin Thomlinson LLP
Under Ontario's human rights jurisprudence, when an employee raises a complaint of discrimination, the employer has a duty to address that complaint. The employer's response to a complaint...
India
BTG Advaya
A hostile work environment is created when an employee experiences workplace harassment or discrimination that is pervasive and severe enough to affect...
BTG Advaya
There is a significant gender gap in the labour market, with low rates of female labour force participation. This gender gap in the LFPR has remained almost consistent...
UK
Herrington Carmichael
Over the past few weeks, the Gender Pay Gap reporting deadlines passed in the UK. However, despite the headline figures suggesting that the gender pay gap...
Ankura Consulting Group LLC
Non-financial misconduct has become an urgent matter of discussion across the financial services sector. Workplace behaviours such as harassment and abuse are indicators...
Pierson Ferdinand
An employment tribunal in the UK stated that "[o]ffering a chair to an older colleague at work could count as age discrimination."
United States
Frantz Ward
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") has finalized its regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ("PWFA"), which went into effect last summer.
Winston & Strawn LLP
On April 17, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States held that employees alleging they were subjected to discriminatory job transfers under Title VII need only show that they suffered some harm...
Thompson Coburn LLP
We interrupt your Tortured Poets Department** listening party to inform you that the Biden administration has released its long awaited Title IX rules.
Littler Mendelson
On April 17, 2024, the Oregon Court of Appeals recognized a government employee's whistleblower claim under state law against a city that employed him under an intergovernmental agreement with another city.
Pierson Ferdinand
Plaintiffs in discrimination cases may attempt to introduce me-too evidence to the jury to establish that the same harasser directed the same acts of discrimination or harassment against other employees.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
On May 26, 2021, a tragic incident at a Northern California railyard resulted in the loss of nine lives due to workplace violence.
Butler Snow LLP
On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, the United States Supreme Court provided an opening for workers to allege employment discrimination claims regarding job transfers...
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