Here is an interesting article about the persistence of pregnancy discrimination in the American workplace. It points out that pregnancy-discrimination complaints to the EEOC have risen steadily from 3,977 in 1997 to a peak of 6,285 in 2008. In 2010, there were 6,119 such complaints. The article quotes Cynthia Calvert, a senior adviser at the [...]
EEOC limits defenses in disparate impact age cases
On November 16, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a draft final rule that limits an employer’s defenses in age discrimination cases by removing the “business necessity” defense from disparate impact challenges under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). In particular, the rule eliminates business necessity from the ADEA’s “reasonable factors other than [...]