‘No Swords’ Rule Religious Discrimination?
A federal appeals court has reinstated a claim of religious discrimination filed by a former Internal Revenue Service worker who was fired for going AWOL after security agents wouldn’t admit her to the...
View ArticleEEOC to Examine National Origin Discrimination
An aspect of discrimination law that is gaining increasing attention is, not surprisingly, national origin discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)will meet on Nov. 13 in...
View ArticleAppeals Ct Says OK for Supervisor to Throw Things
A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a supervisor did not violate the rights of a subordinate when he allegedly yelled at her in front of coworkers and violently threw a heavy notebook at her....
View ArticleDonald Sterling, Racism & Federal Courts
The life-time suspension from the National Basketball League of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for making racist comments to his girlfriend raises questions about how such conduct is...
View ArticleSettlement is Mother’s Day Gift to Working Mothers
On the heels of Mother’s Day, a Texas woman has won an important victory for all nursing mothers in the workplace. Donnicia Vetters accepted an out of court settlement of $15,000 on the eve of a...
View ArticleCompany Liable for Lovestruck HR Director
A federal appeals court in Puerto Rico has rejected the narrow limitations imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court on who is considered to be a “supervisor” in employment discrimination cases. The U.S. Court...
View ArticleSenator Wants to Turn Back Clock at EEOC
Not only has Congress failed to help victims of age discrimination for more than a decade, now the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions wants to stop the...
View ArticleAppeals Court Puts Judge on Hot Seat in Trucking Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has rejected an order requiring the EEOC to pay $4.7 million in attorney fees and costs to CRST Van Expedited, Inc., one of the nation’s leading transport...
View ArticleHigh Court Backs Religion
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that an employer may engage in illegal discrimination when it implements a neutral policy that fails to accommodate a job applicant’s religious practices, whether or...
View ArticleAARP Profits While Older Workers Struggle
If only business was as good to America’s struggling older workers as it is for the AARP. In 2010, the AARP had assets totaled $2,546,636,000. According to its 2013 Financial Report, the AARP’s assets...
View ArticleThoughts About the EEOC’s New Direction
For an employee advocate, there is something vaguely troubling about the EEOC’s 2015 performance report. For one thing, the agency touts as an achievement that it provided 3,700 “no-cost” educational...
View ArticleNPR’s Diversity Problem: Why So Few Women Sources?
The high-tech industry in Silicon Valley isn’t the only American industry with serious diversity problems. National Public Radio this week reported that male sources outnumber female sources on the...
View ArticleDiscrimination Victims Deserve REAL Justice
The EEOC has asked for public input so here goes: Why is the EEOC operating the equivalent of a “get out of jail free card” for employers that engage in employment discrimination and retaliation? When...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Victims Forgotten in U.S. Supreme Court Appeal
One of the most outrageous court rulings in modern history may be the dismissal of a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by hundreds of female truck driver trainees against CRST Van Expedited Inc., which...
View Article‘Transgender’ Now Accorded More Protection than ‘Age’
There is a national movement going on right now to boycott states that force transgendered individuals to use the restrooms of their biological sex rather than their chosen identity. Many companies,...
View ArticleUnions Say ‘Breeze Airways’ Blows An Ill Wind
The nation’s cadre of mostly female flight attendants is facing a new threat – the idea that their job can be performed by college students at a fraction of the cost Breeze Airways, a new airline...
View ArticleWill Judge Jackson’s Impending Appointment Help Or Hurt Civil Rights?
The premier civil rights law in the nation makes it unlawful for employers to fail or refuse to hire any individual on on the basis of “such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national...
View ArticleU.S. Judge Dismisses Free Speech/Free Press Claim
The Selection Officer for the SSA says one reason he didn’t hire the plaintiff (me) is because she (I) wrote an employment law blog on workplace abuse. Chief U.S. District Judge Miranda Du of Nevada...
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