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EEOC issues new Policy Guidance on the Consideration of Criminal Records in Employment Decisions

Glenn E. Martin | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Reentry, Jobs, Discrimination, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Incarceration, Eeoc, Latino Voices News
Glenn E. Martin

The mass incarceration of minority communities, and the resulting mass reentry and lifetime collateral consequences have created the "perfect storm" to ensure that criminal record based employment discrimination serves as a surrogate for race-based discrimination.

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EEOC Updates Civil Rights Protections on Criminal Background Checks for Employment

Michelle Natividad Rodriguez | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Eeoc, Criminal Background Checks, Criminal Record Employment, EEOC Criminal Records, Criminal Records Employment, EEOC Criminal Background Checks, Business News
Michelle Natividad Rodriguez

The EEOC's timely and necessary update to the guidance sent a strong and clear message about how and why criminal records checks run afoul of Title VII, and what employers can do to meet their business needs without discriminating against qualified job applicants.

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Trymaine Lee

Updated EEOC Policy Forces Employers To Give Fair Shot To Ex-Offenders

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Black Voices News, Criminal Background Checks, Ex-Convicts, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Recidivism, Bv-Politics, Eeoc, Black Voices News

Kenneth Wilson has been looking for a job for more than two and a half years. But every single job interview that he's had seems to start and end the ...

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D.M. Levine

Race Discrimination Suit Against AIG Says Boss Called Lawyer 'Fat Albert'

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Video, Race-Discrimination, Aig, Civil Suit, Federal Court, Law Suit, Discrimination, American International Group, Eeoc, Aig Racial Discrimination, Business News

A former AIG lawyer is suing the insurance giant for discrimination, claiming colleagues and supervisors taunted him, mistreated him and ultimately fi...

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Pregnancy Discrimination Claims On The Rise

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Maternity Leave, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Rise in Pregnancy Discrimination, Pregnancy Leave, Eeoc, Pregnancy Discrimination, Business News

Pregnancy discrimination claims are on the rise, according to new data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In public hearing held Fe...

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Rights Have to Be Enforced Somehow

Joshua Shulman | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Eeoc, Discrimination, Civil Rights, Trial Lawyers, Equal Opportunity Employment, Lawyers, Employee Rights, New York Disability Law, Workers Rights, Politics News
Joshua Shulman

We as a country have to decide what rights we want to enforce, and whether to enforce them with government agencies, or with private contractors. But whipsawing back and forth is unfair.

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Company Ordered To Pay Up In Pregnancy Discrimination Case

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: US-Equal-Employment-Opportunity-Commission, Roxy Leger Hcs Medical Staffing Inc, Roxy Leger, Pregnancy-Discrimination-Act, HCS Medical Staffing Inc, Maternity Leave, Pregnancy Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, Pregnancy, Woman Fired for Being Pregnant, Woman Fired for Maternity Leave, Eeoc, Parents News

A Milwaukee medical staffing company will have to pay a former employee nearly $150,000 after firing the new mom for taking maternity leave. The U....

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Why Pregnant Women are Forced to Carry an Extra Load in the Workforce

Joan Williams | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Working Women, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Working Mothers, Eeoc, Medical Conditions, Women News
Joan Williams

Discrimination against pregnant women is finally beginning to get the national attention it deserves.

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Alice Hines

Walmart Women Still Seek Justice In Sex Discrimination Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Georgia Walmart Workers, Arkansas Walmart Workers, Edith Arana, North Carolina Walmart Workers, Sex Discrimination, Dukes v. Walmart, Wal-Mart, Eeoc, Betty Dukes, Mississippi Walmart Workers, Patricia Surgeson, Alabama Walmart Workers, Class Action Lawsuit, Class Action Suit, Business News

The women who say Walmart discriminates aren't giving up. Five hundred female employees in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and North Caroli...

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Gun? Check. Radio? Check. Lawyer? Check!

David Isenberg | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Private Military Security Contractors, Lawyers, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nisoor Square, Blackwater, Eeoc, Business News
David Isenberg

The EEOC originally filed suit against DynCorp in August 2011 alleging that from October 2006 through January 2007, James Friso, an aircraft sheet metal/structural mechanic working in Taji, Iraq, was subjected to harassment based on his sex by a male co-worker.

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Professor Says Pregnancy Should Be Treated As Disability

Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Jeannette Cox, Video, Americans With Disabilities Act, Pregnancy Disability, Pregnancy-Discrimination-Act, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Ada, Eeoc, Parents News

Jeannette Cox, a law professor at the University of Dayton (Ohio), is suggesting that pregnant women experience symptoms that may warrant special acco...

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Dave Jamieson

Need Not Apply: Job Discrimination Hits Record High

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Unemployment, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Economy, Unemployment Crisis, Job Discrimination, Economic Crisis, Nelp, Discrimination, Eeoc, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The federal agency responsible for investigating employment discrimination charges reported this week that the number of complaints comi...

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Migrant Workers' Forum Highlights Need for Change

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Latinos, Migrant Workers, Working Conditions, Eeoc, Wright County Egg, Sexual Harassment, Epa, Workers Rights, Chicago News
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

We are engaged in a year-long project looking at Latino workers in the Midwest and the degree to which enforcement agencies are protecting them. Thus far, we can say that at the federal level it's not a pretty story.

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Mike Sacks

When Is A Teacher Also A Minister?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Religion, Video, Church-State Separation, Lutheran Church, Church State Wall, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, Ministerial Exception, Anthony Kennedy, Hosanna-Tabor-Evangelical-Lutheran-Church, Eeoc, U.S. Supreme Court, Stephen Breyer, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court dipped its toes in holy waters Wednesday morning, but only a minority of the justices appeared ready to fully immerse ...

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Dave Jamieson

Over 40 Told Only 'Young, Hot' Need Apply

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Economic Downturn, Video, Unemployment, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Long-Term Unemployment, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Texas Roadhouse, Eeoc, Age Discrimination, Business News

WASHINGTON -- If older job seekers have had a particularly rough time finding work during the economic downturn, they apparently haven't found any ref...

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Non-Hispanic Workers Allegedly Fired For Perceived Laziness

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Latino-Stereotypes, Non-Hispanics Fired at Hampton Inn, Denver Colorado, Non-Hispanics, Denver News, Workplace Discrimination, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Eeoc, White Stereotypes, Latino Prosperity, Denver News

DENVER — Former employees at a western Colorado hotel said they were fired and replaced with Latino workers because the business owners thought ...

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Dave Jamieson

Mega Retailer Bass Pro Discriminated Against Minority Job Seekers: Feds

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Jobs-Discrimination, Hunting, Retail Sales, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Black Unemployment, Discrimination, Fishing, Racial Discrimination, Bass Pro Shops, Eeoc, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Bass Pro Shops, one of the leading retailers of outdoor gear, is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for alle...

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Dave Jamieson

Male Sexually Harassed By Female Colleague: 'It Can Happen To A Man'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Lenscrafters, Lawsuit, Eeoc, Sexual Harassment, Business News

LensCrafters, the largest optical chain in the country, has settled a lawsuit accusing the company of allowing a male employee to be sexually harassed...

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Supreme Court To Hear Case Of Fired Church Teacher

Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Equal Opportunity Employment, First Amendment Rights, Supreme Court, Religion, Religious Liberty, Freedom of Religion, Church Employees, Eeoc, Cheryl Perich, Scotus, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday (March 28) to consider whether a teacher who was fired from a ...

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The Impeachment of Clarence Thomas' Credibility

Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Supreme Court, Al Jazeera English, American Bar Assocation, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Impeachment, Cliff Schecter, Joe Biden, Koch Brothers, Eeoc, George H.W. Bush, Guy Saperstein, Stephen Colbert, Citizens United, Common Cause, Clarence Thomas, Long Dong Silver, Dan Quayle, Politics News
Cliff Schecter

While he doesn't seem to even want to participate in his day job, Thomas certainly does engage in the kind of partisan politicking that is not only unseemly, but sets a terrible precedent.

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Laura Bassett

Big Retail Companies Require Job Applicants To Disclose Their Age

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hiring Discrimination, Older Workers, Target, Kroger, Online Job Search, Home Depot, Eeoc, Age Discrimination, Business News

Ruth Lyons, 59, was born on April 28, 1951. But after two and a half years of not even being able to get an interview for a job, she decided that her...

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Laura Bassett

EEOC Asks: Are Employers Discriminating Against The Jobless?

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eeoc, Jobless, Unemployed, Unemployment, Employment Discrimination, Politics News

A Craigslist job ad posted Feb. 6 for a $25-per-hour customer relations position in San Francisco encourages men, women, and students to apply, "No Ex...

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Laura Bassett

High Unemployment Helps Make 2010 Record For Workplace Discrimination Complaints, Resolutions

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobless 2010, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, Workplace Discrimination, Unemployment Crisis, Unemployment 2010, Jobs, Unemployment Rate, Eeoc, Business News

Persistently high unemployment levels and a brutal job market contributed to a record number of workplace discrimination complaints in 2010, the Equal...

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JBS Swift

AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eeoc, JBS Swift and Co., Jbs, Somali Muslims Meatpacking Plant, Somali Muslims, Discrimination, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Denver News

DENVER — Muslim Somali workers at two JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Colorado and Nebraska face ongoing harassment because of their race ...

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Is the Media Sexist? How to Make "Equal Pay" for Women a Sexy, Election News Story and Debate Question?

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Lilly Ledbetter, Paycheck Fairness Act, Citibank, Women and Politics, Equal Pay, Media, Election, Voting, Supreme Court, President Obama, New York, Eeoc, Senate, Living, House of Representatives, Election 2010, Catalyst, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Frosted Glass Ceiling, Business, Women Voters Clinton, Impact, Sexist Media, Misogynous Media, Sexism in Media, Media News
Beverly Wettenstein

Have you seen the news stories about the sexy Citibank beauty who claims she was discriminated against and fired because she distracted her male cowor...

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