August 12, 2025
The Sixth Circuit recently rejected decades-old U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines and made it tougher for workers to successfully sue employers over harassment by customers, in a ruling that experts said showed the influence of last year's Loper Bright opinion from the nation's highest court.
August 11, 2025
An employer can only be held liable for a customer's harassment of an employee if the company intended for the misconduct to happen, the Sixth Circuit ruled, a strict stance that breaks with long-standing U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines and other circuit case law.