So far in 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has used amicus briefs to push courts to adopt its views on employer liability in third-party harassment cases, as well as the breadth of the U.S. Supreme Court's Muldrow decision, which lowered the bar for workplace bias claims. Here's a look at where the agency is directing its amicus efforts this year.
Kaiser Permanente will pay $358,000 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations into allegations that the healthcare consortium unlawfully denied employees religious exemptions from its vaccination policy, the federal agency announced Wednesday.
A Seventh Circuit ruling that Illinois law does not incorporate the limitations for compensable pre- and post-shift activities under federal law underscores how state laws, rather than federal, could weigh more heavily in the compensation debates, attorneys say.