Promotion : Discrimination

Promotion

Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Update (Four Parts)
Ely A. Leichtling and Pamela M. Ploor of Quarles & Brady LLP

Fourt part article detailing developments involving equal employment and affirmative action.
The Employer/Employee Relationship Begins Before the Beginning
Douglas B. M. Ehlke of Ehlke Law Offices

The employer/employee relationship clearly exists when an employer hires an individual to accomplish a task. All employers are aware of their responsibilities as related to employee safety, nondiscrimination, overtime pay and the like. But an employer's responsibility to employees begins before the first employee is placed on the payroll.
Race Discrimination: Recent Cases About Shifting Burdens of Proof
Parsons Behle & Latimer

Two recent decisions from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals (which has jurisdiction over cases from Utah), Martinez v. State of Wyoming and Griffis v. City of Norman, Oklahoma, discuss the evidentiary showing that a victim of alleged racial discrimination in hiring and/or promotion must make in order to survive a defendant employer's motion for summary judgment.