Job Bias Complaints Set Record in 2010
Workplace discrimination complaints against private sector firms hit an all time high in 2010. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported the filings with the federal agency...
View ArticleSupreme Court: Worker’s Protection from Retaliation Extends to Fiancee
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal law barring retaliation against a worker for complaints about on-the-job discrimination also protected the employee’s relative from unlawful dismissal. The...
View ArticleCourt Sets October Deadline for Women Suing WalMart
Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a U.S. judge ruled. Women who say...
View ArticleVirginia Moving Firm to Pay for Hair Discrimination
A Roanoke, Va.-based moving company will pay $30,000 as part of a settlement with a Waynesboro-area man who says he was denied a job because he wouldn’t cut his long, dreadlocked hair. The U.S. Equal...
View ArticleGeorgia Factory Worker Sues After Being Fired for Refusal to Wear ’666′
A Georgia factory worker claims in a federal lawsuit that he was fired after he refused to wear a `666′ sticker he feared would doom him to eternal damnation. Billy E. Hyatt claims he was fired from...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules Religious Ministers Not Covered by Job Bias Laws
Religious groups and churches may hire and fire their leaders without being subject to laws against discrimination in employment, the U.S. Supreme Court said this week in a unanimous landmark ruling....
View ArticleEmployment Bias Complaints Against Private Sector at All-Time High: EEOC
Employment discrimination complaints against private sector employers reached an all-time high in the most recent fiscal year, federal regulators said this week. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
View ArticleEEOC Updates Best Practices for Using Criminal Records in Hiring
Recognizing that technology has changed hiring procedures and also that more people are coming in contact with the criminal justice system, the federal government has updated its guidelines for...
View ArticleRegulators: Dallas Company to Pay $50K to Settle Discrimination Lawsuit
Regulators say a Dallas-area refrigerated transport company will pay $50,000 to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that...
View ArticleGovernment Sends Message by ‘Super-Sizing’ Employment Bias Cases
It started with allegations of hangman’s nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking company warehouse in Chicago Ridge, Ill. Four years later, the Equal...
View ArticleFederal Government’s Employment Discrimination Complaints, Payments Fall
Federal employees and applicants filed 16,974 complaints of employment discrimination in fiscal year 2011, down about 3.5 percent from 2010. The U.S. government paid monetary benefits to complainants...
View ArticleCourt Rules Employers Must Reassign Disabled Workers to Vacant Jobs
A federal appeals court has revived an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against United Airlines Inc., and said U.S. law generally requires employers to reassign disabled workers to...
View ArticleMore Workers Claiming Job Discrimination Over Language, Accents
More people in the workforce are claiming discrimination over their English-speaking ability or foreign accents, according to federal officials. Workplace discrimination complaints based on national...
View ArticleOregon Company Pays $180K To Settle Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says an Oregon-based construction company will pay $180,000 to a pair of former employees who were subject to racial taunts on a Salt Lake City work...
View ArticleCap Forces Judge to Slash Landmark $240M EEOC Verdict to $1.6M
A judge has slashed a landmark $240 million verdict to $1.6 million for 32 mentally disabled workers in Iowa who suffered years of abuse by their caretakers. U.S. Senior Judge Charles Wolle entered...
View ArticleU.S. Sues BMW, Dollar General Over Use of Criminal Records in Hiring
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed lawsuits this week against discount retailer Dollar General Corp. and a BMW manufacturing plant in South Carolina over their use of criminal background...
View ArticleEPLI in Southern California Playing ‘Hard’ to Get
Employment practices in California is a known and growing concern for insurers, agents and employers, and that concern has some carriers ramping up rates dramatically or quietly pulling back from the...
View ArticleCalifornia Fruit Producer Faces Federal Sex Harassment Suit
A federal lawsuit has been filed charging that a central California dried fruit producer subjected its female workers to ongoing sexual harassment. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is...
View ArticleWhat EEOC Reports It Accomplished in FY 2013
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported it obtained a record $372.1 million in monetary relief for victims of private sector workplace discrimination in FY 2013. This is $6.7...
View ArticleEEOC Suits Against Employers Allege Transgender Bias
A funeral home and an eye clinic that fired employees who had changed their sex from male to female were sued last week as the U.S. government filed its first-ever federal lawsuits for transgender...
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