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STATUS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN EMPLOYMENT
Employment, Newsletter Articles
August 21, 2023
Affirmative action and race-conscious decision making have been recent topics of discussion following the Supreme Court’s June ruling that affirmative action and race-conscious decision making in education are violations of the Equal Protection Cla...
UPDATED STANDARDS FOR RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS
Employment, Newsletter Articles
August 7, 2023
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Groff v. DeJoy (“Groff”), clarifying employers’ burden to show that a religious accommodation creates an “undue hardship.” Before the decision, an accommodation could cause an undue h...
UPDATES FOR FTC’S PROPOSED NON-COMPETE RULE
Employment, Newsletter Articles
July 27, 2023
In March, we published a summary of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule to effectively ban non-compete agreements across almost all industries. Earlier this year, the FTC sent shockwaves throughout the labor market after announcing a new p...
AVOID OCR INVESTIGATIONS: STOP SNOOPING IN ITS TRACKS
Healthcare, Newsletter Articles
July 20, 2023
On June 15, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that a Washington hospital would pay $240,000 as part of a settlement for HIPAA violations concerning medical record “snoopin...