By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Christopher J. DeGroff
Calling all loyal blog readers – the EEOC-Initiated litigation webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, February 25, 2013. Click here to register and attend.
Our readers have given us wide-ranging feedback since the launch of our annual EEOC litigation study, EEOC-Initiated Litigation: Case Law Developments In 2013
By Pamela Q. Devata, Gerald L. Maatman Jr., and Howard M. Wexler
The EEOC has come under fire from Courts, State Attorney Generals, and even the entire State of Texas because of its guidance document regarding use of criminal background checks as hiring screens.
As we previously discussed, the U.S. Commission
In case you missed it, Seyfarth’s Tenth Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report was published early this year. Click here to download a PDF of the introduction “trends” chapter and the “top ten” settlements chapter.
Called the “definitive source of information on employment class action litigation” by EPLiC Magazine and
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Laura J. Maechtlen
While much of the news this week has been focused on a decision from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that declared Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, we read with great interest a separate and equally important decision from the U.S.
By Gerald L. Maatman Jr. and Howard M. Wexler
On February 11, 2014, Judge Sara Ellis of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied United Parcel Services, Inc.’s (“UPS”) motion to dismiss in EEOC v. UPS, Inc., No. 1:09-CV-05291 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 12, 2014) – a lawsuit alleging that UPS
By Lorie Almon, Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., and Ian Morrison
Back by popular demand, our Annual Workplace Class Action Report Webinar is today, Tuesday, February 11, 2014. We still have spaces available for the webinar – click here to register and attend.
In the past two years we have seen a combination of
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Howard M. Wexler
On February 4, 2014 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dealt the New York City Board of Education (“BOE”) a resounding defeat when it affirmed a District Court decision that allowed a class action brought by public school teachers regarding a mandatory certification
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Jennifer Riley
We are honored to have our article entitled “Workplace Class Actions: Looking Back at 2013 and Ahead to 2014” published in this week’s edition of BNA’s Class Action Litigation Report. Our piece analyzes the key trends in workplace class action litigation in 2013, and
