November 03, 2021
The Fifth Circuit revived a Black bank underwriter's lawsuit against U.S. Bank claiming he was fired for speaking up about the bank's rumored targeted layoff of Black employees, holding that a Texas federal district court wrongly required him to prove the bank violated federal discrimination law.
April 30, 2021
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission leadership questioned experts about workplace-related vaccine issues at a virtual hearing held to inform the agency's COVID-19 strategy, and the workplace bias watchdog rolled back Trump-era restrictions to the agency's pay and demographic data collection and sharing policies. Here's a look back at the EEOC's week.