| EEO-1 Reporting Requirements--Title VII |
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| Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed to eliminate discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, color, and religion from the American workplace. Title VII, which applies to most employers with 15 or more employees, is enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). To facilitate its enforcement of Title VII, the EEOC has promulgated regulations subjecting covered employers to several reporting requirements. This article summarizes the requirement of the EEO-1 form, the main report required under Title VII. More... |
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| Disparate Impact Claims under Title VII |
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| Under Title VII it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee or applicant on the basis of basis of sex, race, color, religion, and national origin. This means that employers may not fire, refuse to hire, demote, or take other adverse employment action against an employee or applicant because of his or her sex, race, color, religion, or national origin.More... |
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| Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act |
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| In 1988, Congress passed the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) to ensure that most employees would be entitled to advanced notice of a plant closing or a mass layoff. Pursuant to WARN, a plant closing occurs when a facility is shut down for more than six months or when 50 or more workers lose their jobs during any 30-day period. A mass layoff usually occurs when either 500 or more workers or at least one-third of the employer's workforce is laid off during a 30-day period. More... |
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| Arbitration -- Labor Agreements -- Substantive Arbitrability |
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| In addition to wages, hours, and benefits, one of the fundamental elements of the labor agreement between a company and a union is the procedure for filing a grievance. Grievance procedures refer to the process by which employers and employees deal with disputes over contract terms, disciplinary actions, and terminations. Based on the nature of the issue and the level of disagreement, these procedures range from simply filing a complaint to a full-blown lawsuit. Somewhere in the middle is arbitration.More... |
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| Unemployment Benefits - Protest - Voluntary Leaving |
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| One basis of protest that disqualifies the claimant from eligibility for receiving unemployment benefits occurs when the claimant quit the job voluntarily by leaving without good cause. The unemployment system was designed to insure or compensate workers for wages they lost due to lack of work as a result of the general economic conditions or other reasons and not due to any fault of their own. All states, therefore, have provisions disqualifying a worker who left his employment voluntarily and without a good cause for doing so.More... |
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