Blog posts in tag discrimination

EEOC to Begin Closing Cases and Issuing Right-to-Sue Notices Again

Posted on 08/04/2020 at 12:34 PM by Jill Jensen-Welch

Categories: Dickinson Law News, Employment & Labor Law, Jill Jensen-Welch

Tagged As: charge closure documents , Department of Justice, discrimination, EEOC, employers, FIFO, harassment, Iowa Civil Rights Commission, retaliation, right-to-sue notices, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EEOC to Begin Closing Cases and Issuing Right-to-Sue Notices Again

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that it will resume issuing charge closure documents again, e...

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Employer's award of attorney fees reversed by Eighth Circuit in Iowa sexual harassment case

Posted on 03/07/2016 at 07:23 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Commercial Litigation, Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: attorney fees, class action lawsuits, class action litigation, discrimination, doctrine of judicial estoppel, EEOC, Eighth Circuit, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, employment discrimination, Iowa Commercial Litigation, Iowa Employer Law Blog, prevailing defendant, recovery of attorney fees, sexual harassment, Title VII

Employer's award of attorney fees reversed by Eighth Circuit in Iowa sexual harassment case

As an employment attorney on the defense side, I am often asked by my employer clients if they can recover their attorne...

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U.S. Supreme Court recognizes ministerial exception

Posted on 03/07/2016 at 07:24 AM by The Newsroom

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Litigation & Trial Law

Tagged As: ADA, ADAAA, Americans with Disabilities Act, called teachers, Cheryl Perich, commissioned minister, definition of minister, discrimination, EEOC, employment decisions in religious organizations, First Amendment, Hosanna-Tabor, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Hosanna-Tabor opinion, lay teachers, minister of religion-commissioned, ministerial exception, ministerial exception to anti-discrimination laws, religious employers, retaliation, Sixth Circuit, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court, US Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court recognizes ministerial exception

On January 11, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged a 'ministerial' exception to virtually all employment discrimin...

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