A staggering number of LGBT employees experience discrimination in the workplace. Yet, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (federal legislation that would make it illegal for employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation) remains on the back-burner not...
Month: July 2011
NFL shutdown ends Monday with new labor contract
After months of deliberation, and a National Football League shutdown, a 10-year labor agreement was approved by NFL representatives and its players on Monday.The issues began in March when the players dissolved their unions and sued the league. The players filed the...
Proposed federal law would prohibit discrimination against unemployed job seekers
A recent study found that discrimination against the unemployed is a prevalent occurrence in online job ad postings. The study examined the job ads on four major Internet job sites: CareerBuilder.com, Indeed.com, Monster.com and Craigslist.com. According to the Sun...
Abercrombie discriminated against job applicant says court
The U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission sued Abercrombie & Fitch, accusing the retail clothing chain of discriminating against a job applicant based on religion. The EEOC said that the store had discriminated against a young woman who had applied for a job in...
Class actions continue to succeed despite Wal-Mart decision: Part 2
As discussed in the previous post, the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the giant sex discrimination class-action lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart has put a spotlight on other pending class-action employment lawsuits. Some felt that the ruling would result...
Class actions continue to succeed despite Wal-Mart decision: Part 1
A few weeks have passed since the Supreme Court ruled that a sex discrimination lawsuit brought against Wal-Mart on behalf of 1.5 million current and former female employees of the retailer could not proceed as a class action. Now employment attorneys have been...
Verizon settles disability discrimination lawsuit with EEOC
Verizon Communications has agreed to settle a discrimination lawsuit that claimed the employer violated the Americans With Disabilities Act. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that the company did not adequately accommodate employees with...
Out-of-state workers in California now eligible for overtime
If you are employed by a California business but live out-of-state, you can now benefit from California's overtime wage laws while you are working within the state.This has been described by some as a huge victory for the lower paid employees that were being brought...
Golf coach claims defamation in face of discrimination lawsuit
A university golf programs director has resigned in the face of a sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit. He says that he resigned to focus on other things in his life besides golf and says his resignation is not because of the lawsuit. He continues to deny that he...
Best Buy settles discrimination lawsuit
Best Buy has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in California in 2005 by a number of current, former and prospective employees. The plaintiffs accused the company of race discrimination and sex discrimination by refusing to provide desirable promotions,...
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