On April 25, 2012, the EEOC will hold a meeting to vote on new guidance regarding the use of criminal arrest and conviction records in employment. The current EEOC guidance (1987 EEOC Policy Statement on the Issue of Conviction Records under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §…
A proposal to expand California’s “ban the box†policy was introduced on February 24th by California Assemblymember Roger Dickinson. AB 1831 is modeled on the “ban the box†hiring process for state and public employees adopted in 2010.  AB 1831 aims at removing the criminal background check requirements from the initial hiring process for city…
When a company hires over 1,000 new employees over a period of three years, and none of them are women, there is likely something suspicious. Mavis Discount Tire, which owns Cole Muffler, and has 130 locations across the Northeast, is allegedly guilty of exactly that, and The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is now suing the…
EEOC Says It Received a Record Number of Discrimination Complaints in 2011, with Race Discrimination at the Top of the List The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received a record 99,947 charges of employment discrimination in 2011, according to a report released today. The commission obtained $455.6 million in relief through its administrative…
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