Employment Discrimination

ExxonMobil Shareholder Pushes Expanded Protections For LGBT Workers

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: LGBT Rights, Lgbt-Employment-Discrimination, Gay Rights, Workplace Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment, Gay Voices News

Corporate America has taken bold strides over the past decade, with many companies expanding protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender em...

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Do You Think It's Fair...

Brad Lander | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Credit, Predatory Lending, Responsible Banking Act, Brooklyn, Credit Rating Agencies, Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, New York City, New York City Council Progressive Caucus, Video, New York News

Many employers in New York City and across the country routinely use credit reports to discriminate against job applicants with poor credit histories. This puts people in a cruel Catch-22.

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Feds Update Criminal Background Check Policies, In Aim To Prevent Discrimination

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Equal Opportunity Employment, Video, Criminal Convictions, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Business News, Updated Eeoc Guidelines, Background Checks, Employment Discrimination, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Is an arrest in a barroom brawl 20 years ago a job disqualifier? Not necessarily, the government said Wednesday in new guidelines on how...

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Father Rick

Larry Womack | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Women's Rights, Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Catholicism, Evangelical Christians, Rick Santorum, Right Wing, Birth Control, Health Insurance, Vatican, Employment Discrimination, Evangelicals, Birth Control Catholic Church, Contraception, Contraception Debate, Politics News

If we are going to have a serious argument about civil liberties, specifically freedom of religion, I fail to see how anyone can argue that our first amendment rights are best left to interpretation by church oligarchs.

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Out In The Workplace? Some U.S. Industries Are Setting An Example

Kyle Knight | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Employment Discrimination, Lgbt-Friendly Companies, Workplace Discrimination, Workplace Gay Rights, Enda, Lgbt-Friendly Business, Gay-Friendly Companies, Companies Gay Rights, Gay Rights Workplace, Businesses Gay Rights, Gay Voices News

More and more, successful firms are realizing the value of having LGBT-friendly environments -- as the politically and strategically correct thing to do. Such companies have made strides in understanding and addressing the underlying dynamics.

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Supreme Court Shields Church From Minister's Lawsuit

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cheryl Perich, Chief Justice John Roberts, US Supreme Court, Video, First Amendment, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hosanna-Tabor, Samuel Alito, Ministerial Exception, Employment Discrimination, Separation of Church and State, Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Employees of religious organizations whose job duties reflect "a role in conveying the Church's message and carrying out its mission" ar...

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Memo to Obama: Push for Jobs, Don't Shove Employers

Adam Levin | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Jobs Bill, Protected-Class, President Obama, Jobs, American Jobs Act, Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Barack Obama, Obama Jobs Plan, Unemployment Discrimination, Third World America, Business News

Does it really make sense to elevate unemployment to a protected status with race, creed, national origin or anything else protected by the Constitution?

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Age Discrimination Harder To Fight Amid Record Unemployment For Older Workers

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Video, Hiring Discrimination, Long-Term Unemployment, Employment Discrimination, Jack Gross, Gross v FBL, Age Discrimination, Politics News

A federal judge dismissed an age discrimination case from 18 former employees of the Dallas Morning News in March, repeatedly citing a recent Supreme ...

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Who Cares About LGBT Workers?

Darren Hutchinson | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: LGBT Rights, Employment Discrimination, Enda, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

Class issues matter for LGBT individuals. Economic concerns exist outside of marriage. And job security is a concern for civilian LGBT workers.

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Employers Still Ruling Out Jobless Applicants: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Hiring Practices, Jobless, Long-Term Unemployed, Employment Discrimination, Job Advertisements, Long Term Unemployed, Job Discrimination, Business News

Employers are still discriminating against unemployed people in their online job ads despite an increase of scrutiny on hiring practices, a new report...

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The Unemployed Can Now Apply: New Jersey Bans Discriminatory Job Ads

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Celeste Riley, Online-Job-Ads, Fair Employment Act 2011, Chris Christie, Civil Rights Act, New Jersey, Employment Discrimination, Hank Johnson, Business News

In New Jersey, it is no longer legal for employers to specify in their job ads that unemployed persons will not be considered. Gov. Chris Christie ...

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Labor and the LGBT Community

Tobias Barrington Wolff | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Afscme, Equality, Economic Justice, Marriage, Child Labor, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Gay Rights, Labor Unions, Civil Rights, Gay, Employment Discrimination, Politics News

Labor rights is an LGBT issue. Showing up to help labor in their current struggle is not an act of altruism, it is the satisfaction of a reciprocal obligation.

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The Walmart Class Action and the Culture of Discrimination

Kent Greenfield | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Walmart Supreme Court, Walmart, Walmart Women, Gender Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Culture, Business News

If the questions earlier this week at the Supreme Court hearing about the huge discrimination suit again Walmart are any indication, it looks like hundreds of thousands of women are about to lose.

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New Bill Would Ban Discrimination Against The Jobless

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rep-Hank-Johnson, Politics, Unemployed, Civil Rights Act, Hank Johnson, Jobless, Jobless Discrimination, Title VII, Business, Employment Discrimination, US News, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, employers cannot discriminate against applicants based on race, color, religion, sex, or nation...

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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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Rethinking Gendered Bathrooms

Joanne Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bathroom, LGBT Issues, Transgender Issues, Gender, Employment Discrimination, Enda, Politics News

We should follow the advice in Carlos Ball's post to accommodate the differently gendered.

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Why Bathrooms Are a Civil Rights Issue

Carlos A. Ball | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Charles Baker, Transgender Issues, LGBT Rights, Enda, Employment Discrimination, Bathrooms, Politics News

There is a serious issue that some employers believe it is appropriate to fire transsexual employees because of which bathrooms those employees choose to use.

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Rosy Top-Line Masks Utterly Dismal Employment Numbers

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Census, Hiring, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Jobs, Media Criticism, Employment Discrimination, Jobs Report, Unemployed, Job Market, Eat the Press, Media News

If your entire exposure to the recently-released jobs report has come in the form of breaking news alerts to your inbox, you may be only aware of the ...

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Disturbing Job Ads: 'The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered'

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Job Market, Unemployed, Unemployment Rate, Third World America, Hiring, Jobs, Employment Discrimination, Business News

Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants. In a cu...

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ENDA: We've Waited Long Enough

Leslie Gabel-Brett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Politics, Congress, Employment-Nondiscrimination-Act, Gay Rights, LGBT Issues, Obama LGBT, Enda, Barney Frank, Lambda Legal, LGBT Rights, Transgender Rights, Transgender Issues, Employment Discrimination, Civil Rights, LGBT Equality, Politics News

It's time for Congress to pass the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) to prohibit employment discrimination against LGBT people.

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What Would Jesus Do?

Bill Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Will the culture war ever end? We have now had three presidents in a row who promised to unite the country. They all failed because it's hard to compromise on values. But this doesn't mean it's impossible.

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Why the Right Wing is Losing the War Over LGBT Rights

Carlos A. Ball | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Gay Rights, Employment Discrimination, Hate Crimes Bill, LGBT Rights, Politics News

What the right wing is confronting when it comes to many LGBT rights issues is the power of democracy. Elected officials are beginning to vote in ways that reflect the views of the majority of citizens on these matters.

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Sotomayor Racist?

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Newspaper Columnists, Women, Supreme Court Justices, Latinos, Politicians, Women of Color, Latinas, Racist, Obama, American Sociological Association, Prejudice, Race, Employment Discrimination, Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama, Gender, Patricia Hill Collins, Talk Radio, Conservatives, Editorials, Race for the American Dream, American Dream, Sex, Sonia Sotomayor, Conservative Talk Radio, Racism, Sotomayor, Wage Gap, Discrimination, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Poverty Rate, Inequality, Histpanics, Politics News

The fact that these conservative politicians and commentators don't even see racism unless they feel it is directed against them is precisely why we need the voices of women of color on the court.

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Job Discrimination Complaints Hit Record High

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A record number of workers filed federal job discrimination complaints last year, with claims of unfair treatment by older employee...

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