Labor Days
Consistency is Key - for Employee Masks and T-Shirts in the Workplace
On Tuesday July 21, 2020, Kelley Drye’s Labor and Employment Practice hosted a webinar focused on best practices for navigating challenges of the “not so normal” workplace of 2020. A workplace where employers are…
It’s Not Just All Pandemic, All the Time!
As New York employers struggle to reopen their workplaces, implement new workplace COVID-19 policies, manage remote workers, and deal with employees who are quarantined, afraid of contracting COVID-19, afraid of the…
EEOC Delivers Hefty Fine for Disability Discrimination
In May, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced that FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. (“FedEx”) will pay $3.3 million dollars and provide programmatic relief to resolve a disability…
The Answer is Clear—Title VII Will Protect Gay and Transgender Workers
In a long awaited landmark ruling by Justice M. Gorsuch, the Supreme Court ruled that Title VII protects gay and transgender workers. The Opinion provides: Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone…
EEOC Updates COVID-19 Technical Assistance Publication with Q&A
Today the EEOC updated its Technical Assistance Questions and Answers (Q&A), “ What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws .” Among the updates, the EEOC provides Q&A…