Employee To Employee Discrimination

In a recent unanimous published opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that an employer cannot be liable for discriminatory conduct by an employee toward a co-employee for purposes of a Title VII hostile working environment claim, if the employer promptly imposes discipline on the offending employee that is reasonably…

A Lower Hurdle for Federal Employees

In a recent decision, the United States Supreme Court held that federal employees face a lower hurdle in proving age discrimination than those in the private sector.  In an 8-1 decision in Babb v. Wilkie, 18-882 (October Term 2019), the Court reversed the Eleventh Circuit’s decision and held that, because the plain language of 29…