Workplace Discrimination

Major Airline Accused Of Workplace Discrimination

Reuters | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Reuters, Video, Racial Bias, Workplace Discrimination, United Airlines, Racism, Discrimination, United Airlines Bias Suit, United Airlines Suit, Business News

May 29 (Reuters) - Two dozen black pilots alleged in a lawsuit on Tuesday that United Continental Holdings, the parent of United Airlines, passed th...

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What Not to Do at Work

JJ Keith | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Sexual Harassment, Women in the Workplace, Third Wave Feminism, Gender Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination, Feminism, Sex Positivity, Women News

I chose to move to Portland when I was twenty because that's where my favorite band, Sleater-Kinney lived. That tells you everything you need to know ...

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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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Cancer Survivors Facing Widespread Employment Discrimination In Japan

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Video, Workplace Discrimination, Japan Cancer Discrimination, Gender Wage Gap, Business News, Cancer in Japan, Cancer Discrimination, Equal Pay, Business News

Struggling with a cancer diagnosis is difficult enough. But for many, that's only the start. Japanese employers have discriminated heavily against...

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GOP Rep: It Should Be Legal To Fire Employees For Being Gay

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: James Lankford Gay Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Sexual Orientation, James Lankford Sexual Orientation, Lgbt, Video, Gay Rights, James Lankford Gay, LGBT Rights, Slidepollajax, James Lankford, Politics News

Freshman Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told ThinkProgress in a recent interview that he was against laws designed to protect employees from workplace ...

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Burger King Worker Claims He Was Fired Due To HIV

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Maldef, Americans With Disabilities Act, Workplace Discrimination, Burger King, Hiv, HIV Discrimination, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Burger King Lawsuit, Latino Voices News

A former manager of several Burger King restaurants in Virginia has accused the fast-food company of firing him because he's HIV-positive, according t...

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Managers Who Think Highly Of Themselves Likely To Discriminate: Study

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Workplace Productivity, Discrimination Against Obese People, Workplace Discrimination, Obesity, Health Care, Obese Women, Overweight, Money News

Who's most likely to discriminate against obese workers? Managers who think they're good looking. That's one finding of a new study in the Internat...

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Busboy At The Ivy Says He Was Fired Because He's HIV Positive

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Latinos, Gay LA, Workplace Discrimination, Hiv, HIV Lawsuit, Latino HIV, Gay, Busboy HIV, Gay Latinos, HIV/AIDS, Maldef, Video, Gay Rights, Feha, Reymundo Martinez, The Ivy, Latino LA, The Ivy HIV, Latino Rights, HIV Discrimination, Los Angeles News

38-year-old Reymundo Martinez became HIV positive a few months after he started working as a busboy for The Ivy, a Beverly Hills-adjacent restaurant p...

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Workplace Discrimination Costs Businesses Staggering Amount

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Fedex, Transgender, Workplace Discrimination, Gender Inequality, Enda, Discrimination, Center for American Progress, Business News

Discriminating against your employees can cost you. Workplace discrimination against employees based on race, gender or sexual orientation costs b...

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Former Burbank Police Officer Wins $1.3 Million From City

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Police Discrimination, William Bill Taylor, Workplace Discrimination, Sexual Harrassment, Discrimination Lawsuit, Porto's Bakery Robbery, Burbank, Burbank Police, Porto's Bakery, Porto's Robbery, Discrimination, Sexual Discrimination, Burbank Police Lawsuits, Burbank Police Discrimination Lawsuit, Racial Discrimination, Burbank Police Robbery, Minorities, Los Angeles News

A former Burbank deputy police chief was awarded $1.29 million Monday after a jury found that he was fired for speaking out against racial discriminat...

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Women Can Earn More Than Men -- But Only In Porn

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Pornography, Women in the Workplace, Women's Rights, Human Rights, Workplace Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Sex Workers, Pay Equity, Sasha Grey, Politics News

This month, one of Belgium's women's rights organizations, zij-kant, caused quite a stir with their annual "Equal Pay Day" message.

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Widespread Inequality in the Restaurant Industry Means Hardship for Women Workers

Debra L. Ness | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Sexual Harassment, Paid Sick Days, Labor, Low Wages, Fair Pay, Workplace Discrimination, Work and Family, Minimum Wage, Restaurants, Business News

The restaurant industry is the only industry that has a wage gap established by law, which results in significantly lower wages for women workers than for men.

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Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Anti-Gay Discrimination?

Adam Winkler | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Equality, Politics, Gay Rights, Workplace Discrimination, Executive Order, President Obama, LGBT Rights, Discrimination, Barack Obama, Politics News

The time has come for President Obama to sign an executive order banning sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination by federal contractors.

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DEA Agents In Puerto Rico Claim Discrimination

AP | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Puerto Rico, Discrimination, Bamily Lopez Ortiz, Dea, Workplace Discrimination, Drug Enforcement Administration, Video, Latino Voices News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Ten Puerto Rican agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration have filed suit against their employer, claiming they r...

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No One Wants a Younger Boss... Or Do They?

Tay K. McNamara, PhD | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Workplace Productivity, Ageism, Young Managers, Workplace Discrimination, Workplace, Older Workers, Business News

Generally, workers who described their supervisors as younger than them viewed their supervisors as less supportive as compared to workers who described their supervisors as older than them.

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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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One Size Doesn't Fit All When it Comes to Office Dress Codes

Kristen Houghton | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Women, Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Clothes, Workplace Discrimination, Weight, Ashley Graham Lane Bryant, Council-on-Size-and-Weight-Discrimination, Women News

The name of the problem is weight discrimination no matter how the issue is soft-pedaled or worded.

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"Rudolph" Sings of Santa as Savvy Manager, Marketer

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Marketing, Small Business, Workplace Discrimination, Humor, Workplace Psychology, Rebranding, Comedy News

Like everyone else, I've cheerfully hummed, whistled and sung along to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for as long as I can remember. But when I listen...

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Detroit's Shocking Case Of HIV-Related Job Discrimination

POZ | Todd Heywood | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Discrimination, James White, Workplace Discrimination, Detroit, Aids, Hiv, Great Expressions Dental Centers, Gay Voices News

Local attorneys in Detroit are preparing to sue the national, privately-owned Great Expressions Dental Centers for what they say is the worst case of ...

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Stand Up To Ageism

High50 | Linda Kelsey | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Ageism, Discrimination, Baby Boomers, high50, Workplace Discrimination, Age Discrimination, Fifty News

When I first heard that an anonymous actress was suing Amazon. which owns IMDB (the Internet Movie Database), for more than $1 million dollars for pub...

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell (At Work, Anyway)

Jon Hoadley | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Workplace Discrimination, Workplace Diversity, Lgbt Employment Equality, Lgbt Workplace Equality, Workplace Equality, Michigan Workplace Equality, Michigan Workplace Discrimination, Employment Equality, Michigan Employment Equality, Gay Voices News

Today is National Coming Out Day. But if you work in Michigan, you may want to think twice about coming out at your workplace. That's because Michigan is among 29 states in the union where you can still be fired on the spot just for being gay.

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Teacher Sues CPS, Claiming Racial, HIV Status Discrimination

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Christopher Cooper Lawyer, Jumeck Smith Teacher, Chicago Public Schools, Workplace Discrimination, Jumeck Smith Sues, Jumeck Smith, Christopher Cooper, Cps, Cps Lawsuit, HIV Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Chicago News

A Chicago public school teacher filed a lawsuit against the city's Board of Education and his school's principal because he claims he was discriminate...

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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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The Problem with Diversity Training

Dion Nicole | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Postbourgie, Diversity Training, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Office-Culture, Culture, Workplace Discrimination, Office Culture, Office-Diversity, Racial Stereotypes, Black Voices News

Recently, in my office, we had to undergo mandatory diversity training. I expected it to be bad. wasn't expecting be infuriated.

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Does Discrimination Still Exist? Of Course It Does

Red Room | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Sex Discrimination, Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Business News

If you don't believe that discrimination exists, here are some facts that prove my point.

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