Aug 11, 2021 | Business & Finance, Business Insights, Employment Law
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) is straightforward in its prohibition: [N]o person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination [in] any academic, extracurricular,...
Jul 12, 2021 | Business & Finance, Business Insights, Employment Law
The rapid evolution of Virginia workplace laws continues with the Virginia General Assembly’s passage of HB 1848, which extends employee workplace protections under the Virginia Human Rights Act (“VHRA”) to include a prohibition on discrimination against individuals...
Jul 1, 2021 | Business & Finance, Business Insights, Employment Law
In our blog posts last year, we chronicled the sea change in employment laws that has been underway in Virginia, in areas such as misclassifying employees as independent contractors and workplace discrimination. Virginia has had a well-earned reputation as a state...
Jun 8, 2021 | Business & Finance, Business Insights, Employment Law
With a significant percentage of individuals now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, businesses are beginning to reopen or expand in-the-office activity in Northern Virginia and across the Commonwealth. On May 28, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
