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Jury Verdict of Bias Upheld in Case of Lesbian UPS Worker
2015-08-03 21:43:11| Air Courier - Topix.net
Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein affirmed a jury verdict this week in favor of a lesbian who claimed hostile work environment discrimination at United Parcel Service, and decried the fact that "no federal statute explicitly protects against employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation."
Jury Verdict of Bias Upheld in Case of Lesbian UPS Worker
2015-08-03 21:34:50| Trucking - Topix.net
Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein affirmed a jury verdict this week in favor of a lesbian who claimed hostile work environment discrimination at United Parcel Service, and decried the fact that "no federal statute explicitly protects against employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation."
Has high court raised bar for CFPB in auto bias cases?
2015-07-09 04:09:42| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
From the outside, the Supreme Court's ruling last month upholding disparate impact claims in housing discrimination lawsuits may look like a headache for auto dealers, but a provision in the decision could give the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a hurdle that could work in dealers' favor. The disparate impact theory says that a policy can be considered discriminatory if it has a disproportionately adverse effect on minorities, even if no discrimination was intended.
Risk Management a United Airlines flight attendant's race bias case...
2015-07-06 21:34:58| Airlines - Topix.net
United Airlines Inc. failed to adequately respond to death threats received by a black airline attendant, said an appeals court in overturning a lower court ruling and reinstating her hostile work environment claim. Renee Pryor, who joined Chicago-based United in 1984, discovered a note in her mailbox in the Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, in 2011 claiming to be a hunting license to hunt and kill black people that had a racial epithet and included a hand-drawn image of a person hanging from a pole or tree, according to Wednesday's ruling by the 4th U.S. District Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia in Renee Pryor v.
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High court rejects EEOC's pregnancy bias guidance
2015-06-10 03:04:21| Air Courier - Topix.net
On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major rebuke to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by unanimously rejecting the EEOC's most recent, and supposedly comprehensive, guidance on pregnancy discrimination enforcement. The rebuke was delivered in Young v.
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