Lawry's, a California-based chain of high-end steakhouses, has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a sex-discrimination lawsuit that claimed it only hired women to wait on tables.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the New York City Fire Department used recruitment exams that discriminated against African-American and Hispanic applicants.
While most sitting Supreme Court justices refuse to comment about current and future nominees to that bench, one member says she can't wait to welcome Judge Sonia Sotomayor to that exclusive club.
If there had been a secret-ballot vote among appellate lawyers who argue business cases, it is most unlikely that Judge Sonia Sotomayor would have been selected as the one to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court - even from among the reported finalists on President Obama's short-list.
Decades-old time off given women for pregnancy leave cannot be counted when deciding pension eligibility, the Supreme Court decided Monday.
Decades-old time off given women for pregnancy leave cannot be counted when deciding pension eligibility, the Supreme Court decided Monday.
Tony Ferraiolo will never forget his first day back at work after surgery. The 46-year-old supervisor's knees trembled as he entered the windowless headquarters of Madison Co., a switch and sensor manufacturer in Branford, Conn.
The issue of compensating your employees just got a bit trickier.
For Lilly Ledbetter, it was a day of vindication over a decade in the making.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would make suing for pay discrimination easier by altering a time limit on such suits.
Lawry's, a California-based chain of high-end steakhouses, has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a sex-discrimination lawsuit that claimed it only hired women to wait on tables.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the New York City Fire Department used recruitment exams that discriminated against African-American and Hispanic applicants.
While most sitting Supreme Court justices refuse to comment about current and future nominees to that bench, one member says she can't wait to welcome Judge Sonia Sotomayor to that exclusive club.
If there had been a secret-ballot vote among appellate lawyers who argue business cases, it is most unlikely that Judge Sonia Sotomayor would have been selected as the one to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court - even from among the reported finalists on President Obama's short-list.
Decades-old time off given women for pregnancy leave cannot be counted when deciding pension eligibility, the Supreme Court decided Monday.
Decades-old time off given women for pregnancy leave cannot be counted when deciding pension eligibility, the Supreme Court decided Monday.
Tony Ferraiolo will never forget his first day back at work after surgery. The 46-year-old supervisor's knees trembled as he entered the windowless headquarters of Madison Co., a switch and sensor manufacturer in Branford, Conn.
The issue of compensating your employees just got a bit trickier.
For Lilly Ledbetter, it was a day of vindication over a decade in the making.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would make suing for pay discrimination easier by altering a time limit on such suits.
Jerry Prine has always been a successful guy, rising to senior marketing executive at Wang Labs and the Harris Corp. before helping to launch a wireless start-up. His wife Lisa never had to work; he has nearly paid off their $500,000 house in Atlanta and put both his daughters through private colleges.
On the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a new report shows there's still plenty of bias in the workplace against moms-to-be
Four former human-resources managers at Dell Inc. are suing the computer company, accusing it of widespread gender and age discrimination
Sen. John McCain on Monday called for a $300 million prize to whoever can develop a battery that will "leapfrog" the abilities of current hybrid and electric cars.
President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation to protect people from losing their jobs or health insurance when genetic testing reveals they are susceptible to costly diseases
Not knowing what your colleagues make can hurt you. A modest proposal for closing the paycheck gap
To what extent can an employee plaintiff use testimony from co-workers to prove that a company discriminates based on age? That's the issue that the Supreme Court took up Monday morning in Sprint and United Management Company versus Mendelsohn.
Growing numbers of military reservists say the government is providing little help to soldiers who are denied their old jobs when they return home
This week the Supreme Court took up a case that could have far-reaching effects on workplace discrimination lawsuits nationwide.
Last February a federal appeals court panel in San Francisco decided, 2-1, to allow the largest class action employment discrimination case ever convened to go forward against Wal-Mart Stores. The class includes the more than two million women who have worked at any of the company's more than 4,000 retail stores nationwide since Dec. 26, 1998.
Bloomberg L.P., the news and financial services company, was accused by the federal government Thursday of discriminating against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave.
It's baaaack!! Yes, "comparable worth," which faded out around the same time the Bay City Rollers were disbanding, is making a comeback, under the euphemism "pay equity". To wit: the Fair Pay Act of 2007. Introduced by Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) in April (Illionois Sen. and Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is one of 15 co-sponsors) the Act notes the existence of wage differentials between men and women.
The Supreme Court limited workers' ability to sue for pay discrimination Tuesday, ruling against a Goodyear employee who earned thousands of dollars less than her male counterparts but waited too long to complain
Rene Portland still has a job. And I am utterly stumped at how.
Wright State University President Kim Goldenberg received a surprise at his retirement bash -- a visit from Mr. Spock of "Star Trek," aka actor Leonard Nimoy.
Question: My husband and I are trying very hard to get our finances in order and save for retirement. But just when we thought we'd be able to contribute the maximum $15,000 this year to my husband's 401(k) because he got a nice raise, we found out he is considered a "highly compensated employee."
While half of all baby boomers expect to be working past 65 years old, only about 13 percent of retirees are actually doing so, according to a recent study.
Dear Annie: My company was recently acquired, and the culture is changing drastically. One aspect of the new regime, as openly expressed by the company president, is that we are all expected to donate money to a political action committee. I have heard that failure to join the PAC means your name ends up on a list and you get fewer opportunities for promotions, plum assignments, etc.
A railroad worker who said she was punished on the job after complaining of sexual harassment won a unanimous victory Thursday at the Supreme Court, which upheld a jury award that held her supervisors accountable.
Does ExxonMobil have a problem with gay people?
A board game glorifying race riots that gripped Sydney's beaches nearly a year ago might be banned to prevent further violence, Australian authorities said on Tuesday.
A fired African-American employee of Target has filed a federal lawsuit against the retailer accusing it of racial discrimination, claiming his supervisor told him, "Your people are not right for this company."
If you have ever faced the long, lonely walk back into the office after a night of ill-advised overindulgence at the work Christmas party, or if you have ever wondered how best to manage preparations for the big night, salvation may be at hand.
The Supreme Court demonstrated deep skepticism Tuesday that universities should be allowed to turn away military recruiters and still accept federal funds.
A sacked Eton College art teacher who secretly taped Prince Harry in an attempt to save her job has won her case for unfair dismissal from the school.
When Zurich Financial let Bob Miller go in February 2003, he wasn't worried. His résumé was impeccable. He had 20 years of experience under his belt and plenty of references describing him as a hig...
Former teachers of Prince Harry at Eton College helped him to cheat at his A-level art exam because he was such a weak student, a sacked former teacher has claimed.
A sacked Eton College art teacher demanded a bigger pay-off from the headmaster as she revealed allegations that Prince Harry had been given "improper assistance" with AS-Level coursework, a tribunal has heard.
A former chef at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch testified Friday that he saw the pop star improperly touch child movie star Macaulay Culkin in the early 1990s.
In a victory for older workers, the Supreme Court concluded Wednesday that people over 40 can sue for alleged age discrimination under a less burdensome legal standard of proof.
Companies need to re-think how they use their staff to get the best out of young and ageing employees, according to a new study into age and the workplace.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collected a record $420 million from employers that violated workplace discrimination laws even as the total number of complaints filed dropped for the second consecutive year.
Dear Annie: A friend of mine was laid off recently, supposedly because he failed to meet certain (ridiculously high) goals. In truth, he thinks it was because he is much older and more expensive th...
FedEx Corp, the world's largest air-express mail service, was ordered to pay $1.5 million for retaliating against an employee who tried to promote two minority workers, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether the gender equity law that prohibits discrimination in women's sports also affords protections to people who report the unfair treatment.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed that if the kidnappers of countryman Kenneth Bigley contact a British official, "we'd respond to it immediately."
A federal district court in San Francisco certified a sex discrimination class action suit against Wal-Mart earlier this summer. (When a court "certifies" a class action, it allows the case to proceed with a class of plaintiffs, according to class action rules -- as opposed to with a number of individual plaintiffs.)
A senior woman banker who claims she was forced to act as air stewardess on board a corporate jet has launched a £7.1 million ($13 million) claim in Britain for unfair dismissal and sex discrimination.
As the sun sets this week on "Friends," NBC's long-running hit sitcom, the writers, producers and network remain embroiled in litigation.
When President Bush announced his support for a constitutional amendment defining "marriage as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife," he hinted that state legislatures could define "legal arrangements other than marriage" for same-sex couples.
In late July a federal district court ruled that IBM had violated age-discrimination laws when it switched its pension plan to the "cash balance" version in 1999. But while employee-rights activist...
As she moved up the ranks at AT&T, the last thing Jane Banfield worried about was her pension. She'd started out in sales in 1982, worked her way up to management and, by the late '90s, was startin...
As she moved up the ranks at AT&T, the last thing Jane Banfield worried about was her pension.
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25% "Brainstorming" ideas that improved a given process, according to a QualPro study of 471 process improvement experiments at 163 companies over the course of five years
America is no place to age gracefully. Of course, basketball players, dancers, and fashion models are finished young; mathematicians and chess players peak early too. So do construction workers and...
Edward McKeever always knew his job could kill him. For 25 years, he assembled steel girders into office towers and magnificent bridges like the 4,260-foot-long Verrazano Narrows span that links Br...
Texaco, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney, the U.S. Army. What do these employers have in common? They have all been the target of recent allegations of either harassment or discrimination i...
A few weeks before he was fired in August 1990, James O'Connor says, his boss told him that he was "too damn old" to travel around Virginia and the Carolinas overseeing the company's vending machin...
THE CASE FOR AGEISM
The racial-preference policies lumped together under the label "affirmative action" seem to be reaching the end of their collective road. The Republican majority in Congress and most GOP presidenti...
MEMO TO PRESIDENT CLINTON: While you and the rest of the Beltway bigwigs consider re-engineering affirmative action programs that favor minorities, the nation's 60 million working women might not c...
GROWTH SITUATION
Women and minorities embarking on careers in white-collar America may find the welcome they receive a tad harsh. A survey of 200 top college students by the Hanigan Consulting Group shows that Fort...
Most of us still play under the old rules of jobs and careers. In examining your own attitudes, watch out for these old rules -- and replace them when you find them.
We approach this item with mixed emotions, as it will require us to speak ill of our 37th President, a man we genuinely liked and admired and voted for at every opportunity. Your servant is in this...
A decision to require tuberculosis tests for U.S. Postal Service job applicants in the Washington area has raised . . . concerns about how to curb the growing number of local TB cases without stepp...
With the ranks of workers ages 50 and up growing by about 1% each year amid massive corporate layoffs, age-bias complaints filed with state and federal regulators have jumped 28% since 1990 to more...
As a 21-year-old rookie with the Milwaukee police force a dozen years ago, Lauri Schwefel used to accept male officers' off-color humor and sexual innuendos as part of the job. ''I'd be with a bunc...
Your servant senses that it is time for a little more back talk on the subject of ageism. Every time you turn around these days, there is another uplifting editorial deploring bias against the oldi...
We have bad news from Billcast: The Civil Rights Act of 1990 looks like a winner. Billcast, the legislative forecasting system admiringly described in these columns a while back (February 26), says...
Don Conley has it all -- a loving family, a secure retirement and challenging work that not only satisfies his soul but slakes his wanderlust. When he retired as vice president of public affairs at...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up testifies on the emerging issue of nonsexual harassment and addresses the fateful question: Why tolerate harassment of fat people? Dear Kindly: Are you of all people ...
A decent interval having elapsed, we figure it would be acceptable to nonchalantly restate the case in favor of age discrimination, especially in light of certain subtle hints that nobody in the Ho...
Nobody knows if Congress's multi-tentacled bill will actually curb illegal immigration, but it will surely confuse and complicate hiring for U.S. companies. Says labor lobbyist Virginia Lamp of the...
Ageism Again When we were last groaning about the antiageist lobby, which seems to have been exactly two weeks ago, we were mostly getting exercised about the federal Age Discrimination in Employme...
In his outstretched hand, Keeping Up's senior policy analyst brandished a now-empty library folder labeled ''AGED, United States, Discrimination, 1980 -- .'' Piled around his ankles was a three-inc...
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