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Are There Rules for Verbiage Used in Job Advertisements?

When your business is advertising jobs for new positions, you should be thinking about the specific language you plan to use in those job posts and how you want to frame the position you are advertising. When you draft your job advertisement, consider language selection carefully. It is important to avoid using language that could be considered discriminatory. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) provides information about rules for job advertisements, and we want to ensure that you understand what you can and cannot say in a new job posting. Recommendations Versus Obligations for Posting Generally speaking, the TWC notes that Read more
Simon Paschal August 25, 2021 , , , 9581 0 Read more
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Discrimination Changes on the Horizon?

At the time of the June 30, 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Inc. decision from the United States Supreme Court, many employment law experts and practitioners recognized that the Court’s decision to let Hobby Lobby opt out of portions of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) on religious grounds could lead to a litany of lower court decisions addressing employers’ desires to opt out of other employment laws on religious grounds.  We now have such a case.  Yesterday, August 18, 2016, in a decision out of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, a judge held that the Read more
Simon Paschal August 19, 2016 , , , , , , , , 1695 0 Read more
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New EEOC Guidance on Retaliation

We posted a few days ago about the EEOC’s new guidance on Position Statements.  Well, the EEOC has been busy because they also have proposed new enforcement guidance regarding retaliation claims and charges.  From January 21, 2016 through February 24, 2016, the EEOC accepted input regarding its draft proposed enforcement guidance on retaliation claims.  The EEOC believes the updated enforcement guidance is necessary since nearly 43% of all private sector charges filed in 2014 included retaliation claims.  While the enforcement guidance is not binding law, employers should be aware of it since it is used by the agency in investigations Read more
Simon Paschal March 15, 2016 , , , , , , , , , , , , 3209 1 Read more
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EEOC Position Statements

In order to assist employers in drafting EEOC position statements, we recently released a video on our YouTube page outlining tips for crafting EEOC position statements.  As a follow up to that video, we want to highlight the EEOC’s recent updated information and guidance regarding employer position statements.  A position statement is the employer’s response to an employee’s or ex-employee’s Charge of Discrimination.  In most instances, after an employee or ex-employee files a Charge of Discrimination with the EEOC, the EEOC contacts the employer to request a position statement.  While many employers will utilize the services of a lawyer to draft the Read more
Simon Paschal March 10, 2016 , , , , , , , , , , 4382 0 Read more
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