Employment Law

On June 15, 2020, the US Supreme Court held that transgender and sexual orientation are prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The reasoning is straightforward: in order to decide if the employer wanted to fire a homosexual or transgender employee, the employer had to consider that employee’s sex. The Court said what the employer called this decision making process was irrelevant (e.g., it’s about being gay, not about sex), because in order to decide it …

I know a lot of lawyers will think, “Self-compassion? Isn’t that for weaklings?” It is precisely this thinking which makes our profession suffer so much. Thanks to a recent study by the ABA and Hazelden, we now have empirical evidence of how the stress of the legal profession affects us. Wouldn’t it be great if the act of honing and refining your mental processes through higher education led to being free of the stress caused by our fight or flight …

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws define and prohibit “discrimination” at work. Discrimination is a term of art and it has required components in order to prove it exists. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the federal agency charged with seeing these laws are complied with. Employees can also hire private attorneys to advise them. EEO laws protect particular classes of people from discrimination. Sometimes people say EEO laws give these classes of pe