Talk about a treat: in May, I participated in an employment law panel at the 2018 Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference: “No Bursting Bubble: The Unending March of Employment Law Claims—the Whys, Whats, and Whens.” First up, the #MeToo Movement. While a cultural zeitgeist doesn’t always translate into a legal ones, the second needs the first in order to flourish.

So, take a look at the precedent shattering en banc decision of the Ninth Circuit in Rizo v. Yovino, April 9, 2018. Post-Rizo, employers can no longer argue the following in an Equal Pay Act claim: ”Yes, I pay women less than men for the same job but I am blameless because the women came to work for me already making less money than the men.”