On July 13, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) proposed additional changes to EEO-1 data reporting requirements, modifying its original proposal from January 2016. The original proposal, intended to enforce the prohibitions on pay discrimination in Title VII, the EPA and Executive Order 11246 regarding Equal Employment Opportunity, required employers to begin reporting pay…
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This week the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals provided greater clarity as to what comments can establish a racially hostile work environment under Title VII. In Mahone v. CSX Transportation, Inc., Case No. 2:14-cv-00535-AKK (June 13, 2016), the Court affirmed the lower court’s grant of summary judgment for the employer finding that that a…
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On May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor issued its final version of the overtime exemption rule applicable to white collar employees. The rule exempts from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirements employees earning above a set salary threshold per year. The new version promulgated by the Department of Labor significantly raises that…
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