Love contracts are not themselves new, but they are getting greater attention in workplaces now as companies take fresh looks at harassment policies, training and internal procedures.

The wave of sexual harassment allegations in corporate America has put a new focus on human resource departments and forced companies to decide how much informationif any at allshould be revealed to the public about employee misconduct.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal judge Tuesday that the court does not have the power to force the agency to comply with any deadline, or direct the agency to adopt any new rules in the first place.

Lawyers for women who are suing Microsoft argue that the company discriminated against women in engineering and tech roles by offering them lower pay and fewer opportunities for promotions.

The Republican-controlled National Labor Relations Board moved quickly last week to overturn a host of Obama-era panel decisions.

Attorneys sparred before a U.S. Court of Appeals, which considered the case of a math consultant in Fresno County, California, filed in 2012 after the consultant discovered she was paid less than male counterparts by as much as $10,000.

The recent national spotlight on accused sexual harassers and the widespread #MeToo social movement have sent companies scrambling for advice on how to address the imbalance of power that protects workplace abusers.

PwC doesn't want the number of potential plaintiffs in an age discrimination lawsuit to be revealed.