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EEOC Sues Strip Club for Firing 56-Year-Old Waitress. Awesome.
In case you needed proof that discrimination laws apply to everyone – and every business – the EEOC has taken up the case of a 56-year old strip club waitress who it says was fired because of her age.
It’s about time something this funny happened.
President Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Act (Video)
This morning, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. It was the first bill Obama has signed since taking office.
Joining him at the signing ceremony were, among others, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Lilly Ledbetter herself, who is seen on the video receiving the signatory pen.
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to Become Law Tomorrow
Yesterday, the House voted 250-177 to send the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to the President’s desk. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, President Obama has indicated he will sign the bill tomorrow, making it the first major legislation approved under his tenure.
But debate still rages over whether the change in limitations on discrimination claims will help or hurt the future of HR law. Either way, passage of a controversial employment bill this early on is a clear harbinger of things to come…
Supreme Court Takes Key Discrimination Case
On Monday the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., a case which should settle a long-held debate over how so-called “mixed motive” claims are handled.
SCOTUS: AARP v. EEOC’s ADEA DQ’d
Clearly a statement about the overuse of acronyms, the Supreme Court has denied certiorari in a case between the American Association of Retired Persons and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The AARP petitioned after the 3th Circuit upheld a Commission rule that employers can offer reduced healthcare to older workers and retirees once they are Medicare-eligible, [...]