448+ pp.; 8th ed. 2022-23
Includes 2023-24 and 2024-25 supplement
1. Overview of Fair Employment Laws
2. Proof of Discrimination Under the WFEA
3. Prohibited Bases of Discrimination Under the WFEA
4. Other Restrictions Under the WFEA
5. Procedures Under the WFEA
6. Procedures Under Federal and Local Fair Employment Laws
7. Remedies Under the WFEA
8. Remedies Under Federal and Local Fair Employment Laws
9. Relationship Between Federal, State, and Local Fair Employment Laws
Appendices
Index
The 2024-2025 supplement includes a number of changes such as:
- Analysis of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act has been expanded
- In a 2023 decision, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals addressed employee provision of medical evidence to establish the existence of a disability, employer liability for refusing to reasonably accommodate a disability, and employees’ duty to mitigate
- Analysis of “undue hardship” and “accommodation,” in the context of religious discrimination, has been revised, and discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision addressing this issue has been added
- A 2024 decision from the Wisconsin Court of Appeals addressed the scope of the term “arrest record” and coverage under the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act
The 2023-2024 supplement includes a number of changes such as:
- A 2022 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision pertaining to the ADA, analyzing whether an individual posed a direct threat to the health and safety of the individual or others
- A 2022 Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision addressing whether deferred prosecution agreements, deferred judgments of conviction, and deferred entries of judgment are part of an individual’s arrest record or an individual’s conviction record and confirming the remedies to be awarded in mixed-motive cases
The 2022-2023 revision includes a number of changes such as:
- The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s 2022 analysis of whether the substantial relationship exception to the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act’s (WFEA) general prohibition against conviction-record discrimination should be applied to a domestic-violence conviction in the same way the prohibition is applied to convictions for other violent crimes
- A 2021 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals case involving extension of the ministerial exception to employment discrimination to hostile-work environment claims
- Updated instructions on filing discrimination complaints under the WFEA
- Updated information regarding ERD prehearing conferences and online video hearing processes and recordings
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