Discrimination

New and Updated

• Date:

  January 5, 2024

  Type:

  Commentary and Insights

  DEI's New Legal Landscape and How Employers Can Respond

  This article reviews the new legal landscape for corporate DEI programs and offers strategies for continuing DEI efforts compliantly.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  USERRA: Oregon

  Updated to reflect an amendment to the state's military leave law adding definitions of key terms, effective January 1, 2024. 

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Interviewing and Selecting Job Candidates: Minnesota

  Updated to reflect law banning salary history inquiries, effective January 1, 2024.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Retaliation: California

  Updated to reflect law creating a rebuttable presumption of retaliation following certain protected activity, effective January 1, 2024.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Discrimination: South Carolina

  Updated to reflect the repeal of employee protections related to COVID-19 vaccination mandates, effective December 31, 2023.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Employee Discipline: South Carolina

  Updated to reflect the expiration of employee protections related to COVID-19 vaccination mandates, and its removal from this article.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  South Carolina Repeals COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate Protections

• Type:

  Policies and Procedures

  Dress Code and Appearance Policy

  Enhanced to improve the comprehensiveness, organization and scope of coverage.

• Type:

  Policies and Procedures

  Employee Dating and Personal Relationships Policy

  Enhanced to improve the comprehensiveness, organization and scope of coverage.

• Type:

  Handbook Templates

  EEO Handbook Statement: Hawaii

  Updated guidance to reflect the state’s pay transparency law, and an amendment to the Equal Pay Law prohibiting pay discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic, both effective January 1, 2024.