EEOC And Labor Department Continue Outreach Campaign Focused On Protecting American Workers

Recent actions by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Labor Department indicate that the Trump administration is maintaining its focus on employment practices that it perceives as disadvantaging American workers. EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas has used social media and video messages to encourage workers to report alleged anti-American discrimination, while the agency's redesigned homepage prominently features related resources. Meanwhile,...

Judge Says Offensive Conduct Need Not Target An Employee To Affect The Workplace

Harassment investigations should look beyond conduct directed at the employee who raised the concern, according to a recent D.C. Circuit concurrence. It challenges a line of lower-court decisions that discounted discriminatory conduct that was not directed at the employee alleging a hostile work environment. The concurrence argues that this approach is too narrow because offensive conduct involving coworkers, customers, or others may...