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Remember last November when a federal judge put a temporary hold on significant changes to federal labor laws affecting millions of workers and their employers? We wrote about it here.

In this article, published in the American Bar Association’s Construction Litigation magazine, Gould & Ratner partner Eric Sparks discusses how arbitration has begun to mimic litigation by including discovery, motion practice and even the possibility of merits-based review of awards.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (in Chicago) ruled on April 4, 2017, that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – which prohibits workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin – includes discrimination based upon an employee’s sexual orientation.

By Richard S. Reizen and Daniel E. Crowley