Employment Law Report

By Jordan M. White

Just last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) ruled that sexual orientation discrimination is unlawful under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.  On July 28, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected the EEOC’s determination and ruled that Title VII does not protect employees ...

Max Bridges and George Seay, members of Wyatt's Natural Resources & Environmental Service Team, will be presenting at the 29th Annual Kentucky Professional Engineers in Mining Seminar.  They will be speaking on the topic "Environmental Update Including the Stream Protection Rule, and what Constitutes Criminal Behavior Following the Don ...

By Courtney Ross Samford

The Department of Labor recently announced revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) posters that must be posted in workplaces across the country.  The updated posters, which are available for download on the DOL’s website, must be posted by August 1, 2016.

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By Sharon L. Gold

Have your employees recently been trained on sexual harassment?  Is your sexual harassment policy conspicuously posted?  Does your policy have a reasonable complaint mechanism?  If the answer is “no” to any of these questions, then you may be depriving your company of a defense to certain sexual harassment claims.

When an ...