Tag: Discrimination

• Employment Law & Litigation

  Title VII Pregnancy Bias Claim Requires More than Temporal Proximity

  • February 15, 2016
  • By Allen & Gooch

  The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s decision in Fairchild v. All American Check Cashing, Inc. that the employer had not violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Fairchild v. All American Check Cashing, […]

• Business Litigation

  Protections for Nursing Mothers in the Workforce

  • January 20, 2016
  • By Allen & Gooch

  As of 2010, the Affordable Care Act amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to include requirements that employers covered by the FLSA accommodate non-exempt employees. The statute requires: 1) Reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for one year after the child’s birth each time the employee needs to express milk; […]

• Business Litigation

  Will Disparate Impact Claims Apply to the Federal Fair Housing Act?

  • December 20, 2013
  • By Allen & Gooch

  Disparate Impact Claims of Discrimination and the Fair Housing Act The United States Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments in Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc. to address whether disparate-impact claims of discrimination may be brought under the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968. Ultimately, the case settled and the issue […]

• Employment Law & Litigation

  2013 Legislative Update: Louisiana Equal Pay for Women Act

  • September 26, 2013
  • By Allen & Gooch

  Louisiana Equal Pay for Women Act allows women in the public sector who believe they are being paid less than male coworkers because of their gender to sue.

• Employment Law & Litigation

  Employment Law Eases Burden For Employees With Disabilities

  • January 28, 2010
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  Americans With Disabilities Act Protect Employees with Disabilities Since 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has protected qualified individuals with disabilities from employment discrimination in the workplace. The ADA makes it illegal to discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability of such individual in regard to job application procedures, […]