Tag: Section 707 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Severance

EEOC challenges traditional severance agreements in untraditional way

by Burton J. Fishman The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken a bold step to challenge standard and accepted provisions in severance agreements in a recent suit, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., CA no. 14-cv-863 (N.D. Ill., 2014). There are two particularly important elements in this suit.  The first is that […]