Tuesday, June 10, 2008
MCAD: Men Eligible for Maternity Leave
In what has been described as a "bombshell," MCAD Commissioner Martin B. Ebel recently stated that MCAD will in the future apply the Massachusetts Maternity Act in a gender-neutral fashion. This means that men, as well as women, may be eligible for maternity leave, despite the fact that the Act specifically applies to women. For more, see this article in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and the discussion in Massachusetts Law Updates.
Sources: Massachusetts Law Updates, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
NOTE: I'll be taking a summer blog break, but will be back with new postings in early August.
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Sources: Massachusetts Law Updates, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
NOTE: I'll be taking a summer blog break, but will be back with new postings in early August.
Labels: employment law, maternity leave, MCAD
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Mass. Employment Law Update
A new law mandating triple damages in the event an employer violates the Mass. weekly wage statute went into effect yesterday. For responses from both proponents and opponents of the new law, see the articles in today's Boston Globe and Boston Herald. For more about wages and the law in Massachusetts generally, see Massachusetts Law About Wages, prepared by the the Mass. Trial Court Law Library.
Source: Massachusetts Law Updates Blog
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Source: Massachusetts Law Updates Blog
Labels: employment law, wages
Thursday, February 14, 2008
EEOC Discrimination Cases
The U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently instituted the
E-RACE Initiative, "designed to improve EEOC’s efforts to ensure workplaces are free of race and color discrimination. " As part of the E-RACE Initiative, the EEOC has compiled a list of significant EEOC race/color cases in both the private and federal sectors. The list contains brief sumaries of the EEOC's actions in about 100 cases from 2005 to the present, categorized by heading. For example, under the broad heading Employment Practices, cases are subdivided under subheadings such as Hiring, Compensation Disparity, and Retaliation; under the broad heading Types of Race/Color Discrimination, cases are subdivided under subheadings such as Color Discrimination, Same Race Discrimination, and Code Words. A very useful resource.
Source: Adjunct Law Prof Blog
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E-RACE Initiative, "designed to improve EEOC’s efforts to ensure workplaces are free of race and color discrimination. " As part of the E-RACE Initiative, the EEOC has compiled a list of significant EEOC race/color cases in both the private and federal sectors. The list contains brief sumaries of the EEOC's actions in about 100 cases from 2005 to the present, categorized by heading. For example, under the broad heading Employment Practices, cases are subdivided under subheadings such as Hiring, Compensation Disparity, and Retaliation; under the broad heading Types of Race/Color Discrimination, cases are subdivided under subheadings such as Color Discrimination, Same Race Discrimination, and Code Words. A very useful resource.
Source: Adjunct Law Prof Blog
Labels: EEOC, employment law, online resources
Thursday, November 08, 2007
House votes to prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation
The U.S. House of Representatives just voted to pass H.R. 3685, a bill to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The bill now goes to the Senate for a vote.
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Labels: congress, employment law
