Volume 24 / November 2025

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HR and the Law in the News

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Court Declines to Act as a Super-Personnel Department


The judge described this case of same-race harassment as one “with a difficult societal question about who should be allowed to say which words in a workplace. But to answer that question would require this Court to appoint itself as a super-personnel department.” The court declined to do so.

Click here for the scoop, the judge's decision, and the bottom line.
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DEI Strikes Again - This Time to the Tune of $85M


It is my opinion (and not legal advice to those of you reading this) that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion or DEI programs are still permissible. The problem has been for years - and well before President Trump issued his related Executive Order - with how DEI programs were administered. We have seen it happen time after time after time and then some more. What happened this time?
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U.S. Senate Vote Brings Quorum to EEOC


On October 7th the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brittany Panuccio as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. What can we expect now?
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DEI, Discrimination & the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (yep, 1866)


In December 2024, the American Bar Association reported, “Over the past year, there has been an increase in so-called reverse discrimination suits filed under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.”

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Click here to see why & how this compares to the CRA of 1964. 

U.S. DOL Opinion Letter Addresses Joint Employer Liability


Are you my employer? It depends. A recent DOL opinion letter reminds us that “even if two or more entities are considered separate employers, they can nonetheless be 'joint employers' under the FLSA..." What’s the implication?

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