Leaders from these Big Three U.S. employment agencies hosted a webinar to address the issue of retaliation on Wednesday. Presenting were the Department of Labor’s Acting Director of Wage and Hour, Jessica Looman, Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda, EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows and the EEOC’s Regional Attorney for the Dallas District Office, Robert Canino, and NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo.
Multi-Jurisdictional Enforcement Actions
The agencies discussed how they work together to address multi-jurisdictional issues of retaliation where an act may violate, for example, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and Title VII. EEOC’s Canino said when the Commission uncovers a wrongful act of retaliation under one law overseen by the agency (there are many), they may start looking for signs that other laws were violated. So a retaliation charge could lead to an investigation of, for example, a hostile work environment.
Threats, discharges, etc.
To NLRB’s Abruzzo, a typical retaliation case under the NLRA looks like a case her office recently resolved (after an eight-year investigation). In it, a group of employees filed a lawsuit against their employer and started a campaign to change their...
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