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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Plaintiffs in Wal-Mart sex discrimination suit will keep fighting
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a sex discrimination class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart could not move forward. The lawsuit was brought by six women more than a decade ago against the world's largest private employer on behalf of current and former...
Almost half of GLBT employees in closet at work
A new study has found that almost half of all college-educated workers in the U.S. who are gay are in the closet at work. The study was conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy. According to Yahoo! News, the study found that 48 percent of college-educated gay and...
Supreme Court puts an end to Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action
A decade ago, six women filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart and sought class-action status so that the lawsuit could represent all current and former female employees of Wal-Mart, or about 1.5 million women. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that...
Sexual harassment case shows employers can do better
A jury awarded a record-breaking amount of damages to a woman who had sued her former employer, Aaron's Inc., for sexual harassment. The sexual harassment was egregious and shows that even if an employer thinks they have done everything right in training their...
One billion of world’s people living with a disability
A recent survey done by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank found that about 1 in 7 people in the world are living with a disabling condition, or more than 1 billion people. This means about 15 percent of the world's population has a disability. The...
Voters support federal law to protect gay and transgender workers
The Center for American Progress reported recently on a Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research poll of the voting public in the U.S. that found strong support for anti-discrimination measures to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in...
Hotels offering panic buttons to employees to prevent sexual harassment, assault
Following the alleged sexual assault of a maid by former IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, some luxury hotels have decided to offer panic buttons to their employees. The alleged assault took place at the Sofitel hotel where the maid was employed. The maid said that...
Tech employees’ class-action lawsuit alleges antitrust violations in pay
The U.S. Department of Justice is currently looking into a class-action lawsuit that claims that employees of several Silicon Valley technology companies had their salaries and compensations unfairly capped by overly restrictive pacts between companies not to...
Stevens says prosecutors should be held liable for employees’ mistakes
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens recently gave a speech that said that district attorneys' offices should be held to the same standard as private employers as far as being held liable for the misconduct or illegal actions of employees....
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