Many states have started to expand the protections allowed under anti-discrimination laws.
While laws, statutes, rulings and EEOC guidance forbid sex discrimination in employment, the constraints are not uniform across the country. There is considerable disagreement of what the term “sex” means and if it is extensive enough to provide protections. This white paper reviews expanded protection against sex-based discrimination and what is happening beyond state law.
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Meredith S. Dante
Ballard Spahr LLP
Meredith S. Dante represents employers across industries including retail, consumer products, hospitality, financial services, technology, life sciences, health care, manufacturing, and higher education in a broad range of labor and employment disputes. She partners with clients to proactively identify issues and devise legal solutions that are specifically tailored to the client's workforce and business needs. She regularly advises clients in matters involving discrimination, whistleblower complaints and retaliation, wage and hour issues, reductions in force, compliance issues, restrictive covenants, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and other leave laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other accessibility issues, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and related state laws, and diversity and inclusion programs. She has experience conducting audits and internal investigations, as well as defending clients in single plaintiff, class, and collective actions across the spectrum of employment laws. She frequently works with emerging growth clients to provide practical guidance on the unique issues faced by these companies as they grow and build successful businesses.
Anu Susan Thomas
Ballard Spahr LLP
Anu Susan Thomas is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Group. Her practice focuses on counseling employers on a wide range of labor and employment issues. Anu has experience assisting employers with drafting and reviewing workplace policies and agreements as well as reviewing relevant forms and documents for Fair Credit Reporting Act compliance. While in law school, Ms. Thomas was a summer associate at Ballard Spahr, and a Philadelphia Diversity Law Group summer associate in the Office of University Counsel at Temple University, where she conducted legal research and drafted documents that addressed employee, faculty, and general university issues. She also served as an education and community outreach field officer and project manager at the Profugo Organization in South India, where she developed and implemented the English language curriculum.
Denise M. Keyser
Ballard Spahr LLP
Denise M. Keyser has more than 30 years of experience representing national, regional, and locally based businesses in labor and employment matters, including traditional labor law (such as collective bargaining and arbitrations), OSHA, ERISA, wage and hour, employment-at-will, wrongful discharge, discrimination, management training, executive compensation, and affirmative action. Denise has served as chief spokesperson and lead negotiator in collective bargaining negotiations for employers in a wide variety of industries, including health care, education, chemical manufacturing, food production, distribution, and public safety. She has long represented several prominent Southern New Jersey hospital systems.
Sadé Calin
Ballard Spahr LLP
Sadé Calin is a member of the Litigation Department. Her experience includes the handling of labor and employment disputes, including discrimination cases, and serving as a court-trained mediator in landlord-tenant and municipal cases in Camden County, New Jersey. Before joining the firm full time, Sadé was a summer associate at Ballard Spahr. She assisted with a variety of research projects, helped author chapters focused on at-will employment and attorney's fees in discrimination cases for the Employment Litigation in New Jersey treatise, and played a significant role in the firm's work on the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. Sadé also gained experience working on projects involving commercial litigation and environmental litigation.
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