The vast majority of private sector employers in Iowa do not have a unionized workforce. Many employers (and employees for that matter) don’t understand that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) still applies to them. Section 7 of the NLRA grants employees the rights to engage in various kinds of “concerted activities” for the purpose
August 2011
Judge’s Pregnancy Discrimination Ruling Prompts Debate About Work-Life Balance
By Patrick Smith on
Last week a federal judge in the Southern District of New York Judge dismissed the EEOC’s long running sex and pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against financial media company Bloomberg, LP. EEOC claimed Bloomberg engaged in a “pattern and practice” of discrimination against pregnant women and mothers returning from maternity leave by reducing their pay, demoting them in title, …
Wal-Mart v. Dukes May Bar Class Action Race Discrimination Suit Against the State of Iowa
By Patrick Smith on
Wal-Mart v. Dukes, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, could derail a class action race discrimination case against the State of Iowa that has been pending since 2007 (See our posts here and here on the Wal-Mart case). The Iowa case involves 32 named plaintiffs who claim the State maintained hiring …