How to Respond to an Employment Discrimination Complaint
If the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) or the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) receives an employment discrimination complaint from an employee at your business, how should you respond? It is important to know how to respond to such a complaint, and to understand the necessary steps to take to protect your business and remain […]
President Trump Appoints Acting EEOC and NLRB Chairs
Last week, President Trump appointed EEOC Commissioner Victoria Lipnic as Acting Chair of the EEOC and appointed NLRB Board Member Philip Miscimarra as Acting Chair of the NLRB. As an EEOC Commissioner, Lipnic served as a member of the EEOC’s Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the workplace. Prior to her time […]
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 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 […]