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Sixth Circuit Rules That Employees’ Voluntary Choice of How They Wanted to Be Paid Precluded Equal Pay Act Violation

In a somewhat unusual recent case that illustrates the “any other factor other than sex” affirmative defense available to employers

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NT Lakis Lawyers Urge OMB To Reject EEOC’s Proposed Expansion of EEO-1 To Collect Pay Data

NT Lakis lawyers submitted comprehensive written comments this week to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in

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2016 VETS-4212 Report Filing Season Now Underway; Contract Dollar Threshold for Reporting Has Been Increased

The Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) officially opened the 2016 filing season on August 1, 2016,

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“Must Pass” National Defense Bill Could Scale Back Portions of Obama’s “Blacklisting” Executive Order

Before leaving town for the summer congressional recess, both the House and Senate passed their respective versions of the National

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Massachusetts Strengthens Its Equal Pay Law; Employers Barred From Making Pre-Hire Inquiries About Prior Salary History

Massachusetts has become the first major jurisdiction in the country to bar employers from using an applicant’s salary history or

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NT Lakis Brief to Tenth Circuit Argues That Lower Court Ruled Correctly in Denying Enforcement of Overly-Broad EEOC Subpoena

NT Lakis lawyers have filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in an

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Not So Fast, EEOC: Seventh Circuit Rules That Title VII Does Not Protect Against Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) bars employers from discriminating in the terms, conditions, and

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