Employment policy developments over the last few weeks have been appropriately focused on the transition from the Trump to Biden Administrations, and we have been doing its best to keep employers apprised of those developments having the most impact.
At the same time, however, the federal appellate courts have not been sitting idle as these developments play out. In fact, the courts continue to issue rulings that perhaps while not headline grabbing, nevertheless impact workplace compliance, in some cases significantly.
Since the beginning of the year, we have flagged and summarized seven separate federal appeals court rulings that we think will be of interest to employers. The first three cases all involve issues related to selecting a comparator for purposes of determining whether an employee has been unlawfully discriminated against.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.