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January 25, 2013
DOL guidance may increase FMLA requests for care of adult children

As a result of a U.S. Department of Labor administrator’s interpretation (No. 2013-1) of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) on Jan. 14, employers can expect more requests from employees seeking protection under the act to care for adult children unable to care for themselves.

May 30, 2012
Dissent over criminal-background checks

A former general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disagrees with its recent guidance to not ask about convictions in employment applications.

“A few jurisdictions ‘ban the box’,” that asks whether an applicant has any prior convictions, noted Don Livingston, now an attorney with Akin Gump in Washington, D.C. “In those jurisdictions, employers are barred from asking about criminal convictions at the application stage of the hiring process.”

May 18, 2012
Finally, criminal background checks updated

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) guidance on criminal background checks in hiring issued in April was necessary to update guidance last issued more than 20 years ago, according to former commission vice chair Leslie Silverman, now a partner at Proskauer Rose LLP in Washington, D.C.

May 7, 2012
New guidance on criminal background checks

By a 4-1 vote, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on April 25, 2012, approved a new guidance on criminal background checks.

Consolidating and superseding previous EEOC guidance on criminal background checks, the guidance discourages blanket exclusions of individuals who have been convicted of crimes and encourages the use of individualized assessments of whether an employer’s criminal conduct exclusion is job related and consistent with business necessity.

September 28, 2011
Lowe’s settles religious discrimination case
April 1, 2010
At Lowe's, a Sunday-hours lawsuit

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed suit against Mooresville, N.C.-based Lowe’s March 30, for allegedly requiring an employee of its Morristown, Tenn., store to work on Sunday.

“Lowe's Home Centers committed religious discrimination by requiring an employee to work on his Sabbath, and by harassing and retaliating against the employee, causing him to lose hours,” the EEOC said in a release issued March 31.