pregnancy discrimination

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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It’s Nothing New: Male Dominated Professions Foster Culture Of Sex Discrimination

Leave a Comment / pregnancy discrimination / By max cyril

Bankers and Police Officers Charged With Gender Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Two vastly different professions – banking and law enforcement – yet they share something in common and that is a culture of gender discrimination. It’s the same stuff that’s been going on for decades in spite of federal laws which make sex discrimination, …

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A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center

Leave a Comment / worker's rights / By max cyril

A woman who was eight months pregnant was asked to leave her job because, according to her boss, her pregnancy “didn’t look right for the company.” Another woman suspected she was not hired after explaining to her prospective employer that the gap on her resume was because of time she needed to care for her …

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Rising Hope for Women

Leave a Comment / discrimination, Supreme Court / By max cyril

Talk about the audacity of hope – who could have imagined that barely a week into office, President Obama would sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and that the Supreme Court would unanimously rule that employees who report discriminatory treatment during an internal investigation are protected from retaliation by Title VII of the Civil …

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No Supreme Court Bail-Out for AT&T!

Leave a Comment / Labor Day / By max cyril

As federal authorities scramble to rescue the nation’s financial institutions from the consequences of their reckless greed, AT&T seeks a bail-out of its own. In AT&T v. Hulteen, the telecommunications giant asks the United States Supreme Court to rescue it from the consequences of its reckless choice of pregnancy discrimination over basic fairness. AT&T hopes …

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

It’s Nothing New: Male Dominated Professions Foster Culture Of Sex Discrimination

A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center

Rising Hope for Women

No Supreme Court Bail-Out for AT&T!

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