July 31, 2006

Oh joy, here comes another whole sector of employment discrimination law developing without any clear legislative charter and imposing unpredictable obligations on employers: "family responsibilities discrimination". “Discrimination based on caregiving is not an expressed category,” said Joan C. Williams, executive director of [the Center for WorkLife Law at Hastings College of Law]. “It’s a reflection of the creativity of lawyers who have set up a new subcategory of litigation within existing workplace discrimination laws.” More here, too.