Tags: Health Human Rights Law Labor Law
This panel will discuss two issues surrounding an employer’s rights and responsibilities after Dobbs. The first presentation will discuss an employer’s right under ERISA to assist its employees in obtaining a legal abortion after Dobbs. The second presentation will focus on the attempt of many employers to use the ever-expanding protections for religiously affiliated employers (including for-profit employers) to escape liability under our employment discrimination laws.
William Reynolds is assistant clinical professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and director of the C-K Law Group’s Employee Benefits Clinic. The clinic’s practice focuses on individual employee welfare benefit claims brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). William is also a co-editor of Bloomberg BNA’s Employee Benefits Law textbook and regularly presents at bar association conferences on ERISA matters.
Marcia L. McCormick is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law and Professor of Law and Women’s and Gender Studies at Saint Louis University. She is also the Co-Director of the Wefel Center for Employment Law at SLU. She regularly teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Employment Discrimination, and Sexuality and the Law. Professor McCormick’s research has related to gender discrimination, the law and social policy related to the workplace, federal courts, and sexual violence as a weapon of war. She speaks publicly, frequently on sexual harassment, LGBTQ issues, employment discrimination, the legal regulation of sexuality, public-sector employment, and criminal law. In addition, she engages in pro bono work, including consulting with local and national groups, and contributing to amicus briefs on issues related to her expertise. Professor McCormick has received awards for her scholarship, teaching, and service.
The Effect of Dobbs on Harassment and Sexual Violence in the Workplace
Original Program Date: 03/03/2023 |