New York City Squeezes Speech

The New York City Commission on Human Rights is seemingly ramping up its restrictions on employers with a new Legal Enforcement Guidance on certain protections in the NYC Human Rights Law (NYCHRL). Specifically, a new guidance released this month provides that employers (as well as landlords) could be subjected to fines up to $250,000 for…

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EEOC Updates Vicarious Liability Guidance on Harassment

They seem to be on a roll, and apparently don’t want to lose their momentum, so this week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released the final report of its “Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace”, an 18 month undertaking that given birth to no fewer than 45 individual recommendations spread…

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