discrimination

New Research Meta-Analysis Makes Compelling Case For Nondiscrimination Protections

Leave a Comment / discrimination, LGBT / By max cyril

Our guest blogger is Crosby Burns, Research Associate for LGBT Progress. Today the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law released a comprehensive database of research documenting the immediate need for federal policies that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This database includes nearly 40 …

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Why Wal-Mart Matters, But Perhaps Less Than You Think

Leave a Comment / Class Action, discrimination / By max cyril

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision on Monday in Wal-Mart v. Dukes understandably garnered front-page headlines in the nation’s newspapers. After all, the case was the largest employment discrimination case in history, dwarfing all other competitors by far with its potential to have included more than one-million current and former female Wal-Mart employees. But in reality, …

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Companies Can’t Discriminate, But Their Managers Can: The Supreme Court Gives Wal-Mart the Win in Dukes Gender Discrimination Class Action Case

Leave a Comment / discrimination / By max cyril

Today the Supreme Court sounded the death knell for Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the class action lawsuit accusing Wal-Mart of paying and promoting women less than similarly- or less-qualified men. To protect corporations from having to do more to prevent gender discrimination than pop a few politically correct paragraphs into the employee handbook, the Supreme Court …

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Cancer Victim Fired For Disclosing Brain Tumor Has Claim For Disability Discrimination

Leave a Comment / Americans With Disabilities Act, disability, discrimination / By max cyril

A U.S. District Court in Texas ruled that a Houston P.F.Chang’s restaurant may have violated the Americans with Disability Act when it fired one of its restaurant managers three days after he disclosed that he had a brain tumor. On June 8, 2009 Jason Meinelt was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He told his boss, …

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Women, Black Workers Hard Hit by Attacks on Public Employees

Leave a Comment / discrimination, layoffs, women's issues / By max cyril

The improved jobs figures out last Friday obscured the ongoing decline in public-sector jobs. As the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics noted when releasing the March unemployment data: Employment in local government continued to trend down over the month. Local government has lost 416,000 jobs since an employment peak in September 2008. The loss of …

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Supreme Court of the United States to Hear “Ministerial Exception” Case

Leave a Comment / discrimination, Equal Opportunity, Uncategorized / By max cyril

March 28, 2011, the US Supreme Court granted certiorari in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC to decide whether the “ministerial exception” applies to teacher at a religious elementary school. [Details, briefs] The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued the employer, asserting a retaliation claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The …

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Poor, Pregnant, and Fired: Caregiver Discrimination Against Low-Wage Workers

Leave a Comment / caregivers, discrimination, Equal Opportunity, pregnancy discrimination, Uncategorized / By max cyril

New report documents how low-wage workers are discriminated against at work based on their caregiving responsibilities at home A new report by U.C. Hastings’ Center for WorkLife Law details the extreme measures to which low-wage workers must go to keep a job and care for their children or elderly family members—and the sometimes shocking discrimination …

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Do Workers with Criminal Backgrounds Deserve a Second Chance?

Leave a Comment / discrimination, Employment / By max cyril

The promise that 2011 will be a year of economic recovery rings hollow for the workers held back by their past. For many who’ve been in trouble with the law, not even a lifetime is enough to recover from a bad rap sheet. A brand-new report by the National Employment Law Project shows that people …

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Join March 29 Rally to Support Wal-Mart Women

Leave a Comment / discrimination, Equal Opportunity, equal pay, Wal Mart, women's issues / By max cyril

Hundreds of people will show their support outside the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, when the High Court hears oral arguments in what could become the largest class-action civil rights suit in U.S. history. The Stand with the Women of Wal-Mart rally will take place as the nation’s highest court hears arguments on Wal-Mart v. Dukes …

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Utah Governor Gary Herbert Signs Immigration Bills, Distances State From Arizona Approach

Leave a Comment / discrimination, immigration, Migrant Workers, Uncategorized / By max cyril

On March 15th, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) signed off on a bundle of four immigration bills which includes proposals that were specifically introduced as proactive alternatives to Arizona’s harsh immigration law. One of the measures would allow undocumented immigrants who meet certain requirements to carry a state-issued guest worker permit. A separate bill would …

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