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EEOC: Texas Burger King Franchisee Pays $25,000 For Skirting Religious Issues
24/01/2013 Comments Off on EEOC: Texas Burger King Franchisee Pays $25,000 For Skirting Religious Issues
Dallas-based Fries Restaurant Management, which operates numerous Burger King franchises in Texas, will pay a former employee $25,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). According to the EEOC’s lawsuit (Civil Action No. 3:12-CV-3169-M), Ashanti McShan, a member of the Christian Pentecostal Church, adheres to an interpretation […]
Continue reading …India Supports Gender Equality But Gives Men Edge In Jobs, Education
05/01/2013 Comments Off on India Supports Gender Equality But Gives Men Edge In Jobs, Education
By MICHAEL REMEZ, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press— The recent gang rape and killing of a young woman in New Delhi – and the subsequent protests – have focused worldwide attention on gender issues in India. A 2010 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey that examined attitudes about gender around the […]
Continue reading …EEOC Wins Big Settlements In Recent Discrimination And Racial Harassment Cases
06/10/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Big Settlements In Recent Discrimination And Racial Harassment CasesAmong the horror stories are blatantly racist bosses, nooses hanging in the workplace, a county prosecutor turned workplace persecutor and systematic national origin discrimination. In the past few months, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, has handled several cases involving severe racial harassment. The cases include a $2.75 million settlement against an environmental clean […]
Continue reading …Kauai Prosecuting Attorney’s Aloha Or Else Policy Costs Hawaiian County $120,000
06/10/2012 Comments Off on Kauai Prosecuting Attorney’s Aloha Or Else Policy Costs Hawaiian County $120,000
Kauai County Hawaii’s top law enforcement officer may have broken more laws than she has enforced. Kauai County Prosecuting Attorney Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho broke federal law, according to the EEOC. According to published reports, Iseri-Carvalho and has also entangled the county in other lawsuits. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a $120,000 settlement was reached […]
Continue reading …EEOC: Tough-Talking Racist Boss In Texas Costs Company $200,000
05/10/2012 Comments Off on EEOC: Tough-Talking Racist Boss In Texas Costs Company $200,000
A superintendent at a Texas metal manufacturing plant who was racist and not afraid to show it, cost his company $200,000, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC.) A federal jury awarded $200,000 in punitive damages yesterday to three former employees of AA Foundries in a racial harassment lawsuit filed by EEOC. The EEOC’s […]
Continue reading …EEOC Suit: O’Reilly Auto Parts Manager Seeks Leave For Medical Treatment, Gets Fired
05/10/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Suit: O’Reilly Auto Parts Manager Seeks Leave For Medical Treatment, Gets FiredHeath Craft, the manager of an O’Reilly auto parts store in Beloit, Wis., learned in February 2011 that he had a seizure disorder, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). On 9 March 2011, Craft notified O’Reilly of his ailment. He asked for a one-month leave of absence for treatment. Instead of granting his […]
Continue reading …EEOC: Calif. Hospital In Million-Dollar Settlement For Discrimination Against 70 Filipino-Americans
21/09/2012 Comments Off on EEOC: Calif. Hospital In Million-Dollar Settlement For Discrimination Against 70 Filipino-Americans
Targeted discrimination toward Filipino-American is costing a central California hospital nearly a million dollars and three years of federal supervision and anti-discrimination training, according to the EEOC. Delano Regional Medical Center (DRMC), an acute care hospital in California’s San Joaquin Valley, will pay $975,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) […]
Continue reading …Race Harassment Case: Racist Employees Costs WRS Compass $2.75 Million
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Race Harassment Case: Racist Employees Costs WRS Compass $2.75 MillionRace harassment can be costly for employers. Racist employees cost Tampa-based environmental cleanup company WRS Compass $2.75 million and a three-year nationwide consent decree to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) racial discrimination case. The EEOC’s suit against WRS Environment and Infrastructure, Inc., a WRS Compass subsidiary, involved seven black workers at its […]
Continue reading …Elder Care Caregiver Stress Goes To Work As Employers Ignore Issue
12/09/2012 Comments Off on Elder Care Caregiver Stress Goes To Work As Employers Ignore Issue
By R.W. Greene — Employers are facing a massive elder care health crisis in coming years — but even if they are aware of the problem, few are doing anything about it. The crisis is the toll that elder care — looking after one’s aging parents — is placing on the nation’s workforce. The U.S. is […]
Continue reading …Caregiver Protection Laws And State Employer Polices Need Improvement: AARP
12/09/2012 Comments Off on Caregiver Protection Laws And State Employer Polices Need Improvement: AARP
Caregiver protection laws are rare. As of 2012, only four states—Alaska, Connecticut, New Jersey and Oregon, plus the District of Columbia—have laws over and above federal laws protecting family caregivers and those proving elder care. The AARP report says additions to workplace discrimination laws are necessary to help family caregivers. The AARP recommends the following changes […]
Continue reading …- Amazon’s unilateral mailbox installation nets workers a second election at Bessemer facility
- No injunction pending appeal for Mass General Brigham employees denied COVID vaccine exemption requests
- Sixth Circuit designated to rule on consolidated challenges to OSHA’s vaccinate or test mandate
- California AG announces first-of-its-kind stipulated judgment requiring Amazon’s compliance with COVID-19-related ‘right-to-know’ law
- Stay on OSHA’s ETS affirmed; agency ordered to ‘take no steps to implement or enforce’ vaccine mandate
- Manager who referred to mask as ‘KKK hood’ lawfully terminated for ‘cause’
- Biden Administration says there’s no need for emergency relief over vaccinate or test ETS
- Businesses, five states obtain temporary stay of Biden Administration’s private employer vaccine mandate
- Employee who didn’t opt out of post-hire arbitration agreement must arbitrate bias claims
- U.S. Supreme Court declines to grant injunction on Maine health care worker COVID vaccine mandate
- EEOC shares its own religious accommodation form as sample for vaccine requirement exemption requests
- Waste removal driver unable to revive Title VII and FLSA claims on appeal
- Transgender police officer who alleged she was involuntarily outed advances claims
- After appeal revived claim, white jail employee who complained of racial slur gets trial
- Mandatory vaccination rule for healthcare workers is facially neutral, does not single out religious objectors
- Hotel association challenges New York City’s new pandemic severance law
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- Sprouts Farmers Market to Pay $280,0000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Suits
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- UK Poised to Expand Workplace PPE Obligations
- DOL Sues Over Firing for E-Mail Allegedly Sharing Coronavirus Concerns
- Using Technology to Prepare Workforce for Post-Pandemic Times
- Ask HR: How Can Restaurant Owners Attract and Keep Good Workers?
- DOL Proposes Rule to Remove Barriers to ESG Funds in Retirement Plans
- Cal/OSHA Modifies Quarantine Rules for Asymptomatic, Unvaccinated Workers
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Class certification granted for American Airlines pilots on USERRA, breach-of-contract claims
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
