Company 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 be engaging in illegal discrimination when it implements a neutral policy that fails to accommodate a job applicant’s religious practices,...
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,...
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