The Wage Gap and Equal Pay Progress, Part III: Developments in Protections
By Schwanda Rountree, Erica Roberts, and Amira Dehmani In Parts I and II of this series, we...
By Schwanda Rountree, Erica Roberts, and Amira Dehmani In Parts I and II of this series, we...
By Schwanda Rountree, Erica Roberts, and Amira Dehmani In the first part of this series, we...
By Schwanda Rountree, Erica Roberts, and Amira Dehmani The history of the workforce is painfully...
Workplace discrimination is a multifaceted issue. It often transcends a single category of...
Partner and Trial Practice Group Co-Chair Brent Hannafan served as...
This blog was co-authored by Madison Zucco, Xan Wolstenholme-Britt According to a July 2022 Pew...
For years, companies have used non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”) and non-disparagement agreements in employment contracts and settlement agreements. These provisions primarily allow companies to protect sensitive business information, but can also be used to prevent workers from speaking about harassment and discrimination in the workplace. While some victims of workplace discrimination enjoy the assurance of privacy that comes with an NDA,…
Today (July 14) is International Nonbinary People’s Day. According to a June 2021 study conducted by the Williams Institute, 1.2 million adults in the United States identify as non-binary.[1] “Nonbinary” is an identity embraced by people who do not identify exclusively as men or women.[2] A nonbinary individual may identify as both a man and woman, somewhere in between, or as…
In November 2020, the New York State Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts released its 2020 Gender Survey, detailing the treatment of women attorneys, litigants, and court employees in the state court system. While the study found that the treatment of women has improved markedly in the last few decades, it also found that significant gender bias continues to persist…
On June 29, 2018, secured final approval of a $4 million class settlement reached in April 2017 for female sales force members of Forest Laboratories and Forest Pharmaceuticals (“Forest”). Judge Ronnie Abrams’ order in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York was the capstone of six years of litigation in Barrett et al v. Forest Laboratories, Inc., et…