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- Seven Inappropriate Interview Questions
- Employment discrimination is a wily and elusive challenge for employers and job seekers alike. As long as people judge others based on their age, gender, ethnicity or other factors, job candidates are at risk of encountering discrimination. And as long as job interviews involve actual human contact,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
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- Justice Department Announces Public Education Campaign Grants to Fight Immigration-Related Employment Discrimination
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Justice Department today announced the availability of funds for its grant program funding public education efforts regarding immigration-related employment discrimination. The Office of Special Counsel for ImmiWASHINGTON, Feb. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Justice Department today announced the availability of funds for...
- Research articles 2006-02-24
- Justice Department files suit against the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida for employment discrimination and retaliation.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-11 September 2002-US DEPT OF JUSTICE: Justice Department files suit against the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida for employment discrimination and retaliation C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09092002 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Justice today announced that ...
- Research articles 2002-09-11
- Practical Strategies For Stopping Employment Discrimination
- From the executive summary: ‘Every employer needs clear business/legal strategies to navigate through the myriad of today's complex employment issues. While many employers believe that employment laws impose regulatory and compliance requirements that cost too much and actually impede good business practices, the fact is that many of the same...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Employment discrimination lawsuit returns to St. Louis County
- An employment discrimination case returns to county Judge Barbara Wallace's courtroom Monday following an appeals decision that reversed her original ruling. Wallace granted American Airlines summary judgment more than a year ago in its defense of a discrimination lawsuit from a former employee who claimed he was improperly...
- Research articles 2006-08-07
- MORE LAWS, MORE LAWSUITS.(employment discrimination cases responsible for doubling of civil-rights violation complaints between 1990 and 1998)(Brief Article)
- It's no wonder that the manufacturing community cringes each time Congress suggests an amendment to employment laws. According to the Justice Dept.'s Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 42,000 complaints alleging civil-rights violations were filed in U.S. district courts in 1998, Between 1990 and 1998 the...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- More racial injustice in the Justice Department: the Immigration and Naturalization Service is the latest branch to be charges with employment discrimination
- The Immigration and Naturalization Service is the latest branch to be charged with employment discrimination.
- Research articles 1994-04-01
- WI 7th Circuit Court rules employment discrimination complaint need not state legal theories
- (The following article was originally published in Wisconsin Lawyer, another Dolan Media publication).The 7th Circuit held on Feb. 10 that, to state a claim for relief, a complaint alleging employment discrimination need not allege facts corresponding to each element of a prima facie case.Christopher Kolupa brought suit in Illinois federal...
- Research articles 2006-02-21
- Discrimination Takes on Subtle Forms - Brief Article
- While the era of overt employment discrimination has ended, the era of subtle and covert discrimination practices has just begun, according to Paul Steven Miller, a commissioner with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC. "Unlike the era of overt discrimination when we saw the passage of the Civil...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- Cornell University law professors report: Discrimination suits
- A study by two Cornell University law professors published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review shows a dramatic decline in the number of employment discrimination cases filed in federal court. According to the article by professors Kevin M. Clermont and Stewart J. Schwab, "Employment Discrimination in Federal...
- Research articles 2008-09-25
- Transsexual bias ruling may evoke more lawsuits; Federal judge lowers bar for discrimination claims.(News)(Diane J. Schroer v. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, defendant, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia)(employment discriminati
- Byline: JUDY GREENWALD WASHINGTON-Transsexuals will find it easier to successfully sue their employers if a federal district court judge's ruling in an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a transsexual is ultimately upheld, say observers. Byline: JUDY GREENWALD WASHINGTON-Transsexuals will find...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- SMALL FIRM EXEMPTION AND THE SINGLE EMPLOYER DOCTRINE IN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAW, THE
- INTRODUCTION Laws prohibiting discrimination in employment often make an exception for the small firm. Title VII,1 which is the model for many other federal and state discrimination laws, sets a threshold for employer coverage at fifteen employees.2 A firm employing fewer employees is exempt. As long as it employs no...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Coca-Cola Seeks to Dismiss $1.5 Billion Discrimination Lawsuit.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jul. 22--ATLANTA--Coca-Cola Friday denied the allegations in a $1.5 billion employment discrimination lawsuit. Jul. 22--ATLANTA--Coca-Cola Friday denied the allegations in a $1.5 billion employment discrimination lawsuit.
- Research articles 2000-07-21
- A necessary tool: The continuing debate over the viability of disparate impact claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- INTRODUCTIONDiscrimination against older employees in the American workplace has long been a common phenomenon.1 Until the 1950s, when many states began to pass laws addressing such discrimination, older workers in America enjoyed relatively few protections from employment discrimination.2 The American population is increasingly getting older. The baby boomer generation workers...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Justice Dept. Settles Sexual Discrimination and Retaliation Lawsuit Against Escambia County, Ala., Board of Education
- WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice today announced that it has reached a settlement agreement resolving the Department's lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination and retaliation in employment against the Escambia County, Ala., Board of Education. The government's lawsuit, filed in March 2005, alleged violations of Title VII...
- Research articles 2006-08-11
- BOOKS AND REFERENCES: Employment
- Butterworth Legal Publishers (Salem, NH) has published the second edition of "Employment Discrimination." The two-volume loose leaf publication is designed as a reference covering "all significant ...Butterworth Legal Publishers (Salem, NH) has published the second edition of "Employment Discrimination." The two-volume loose leaf publication is...
- Research articles 1993-09-13
- Women and Minority Employees Charge Best Buy with Employment Discrimination in Federal Court; Class Action Lawsuit Filed against National Electronics Retailer that Tells Women Employees, ''Girls Can't Sell''
- SAN FRANCISCO -- In the midst of its heaviest sales season of the year, Best Buy, a multi-billion dollar national electronics chain, is being charged with violating federal and state laws against race and sex discrimination in employment.
- Research articles 2005-12-08
- Understanding mixed motives claims under the Civil Rights Act of 1991: an analysis of intentional discrimination claims based on sex-stereotyped interview questions.
- The 1991 amendments to Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act should resolve inconsistent federal decisions regarding whether intentional use of gender stereotypical job interview questions constitutes per se employment discrimination. The amendments can reform the US Supreme Court's decision in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins declaring gender stereotyping illegal...
- Research articles 1993-06-01
- Taxation of settlements in employment discrimination cases.(Employment Law)
- Job discrimination settlements' tax liability is important to consider before a settlement offer is accepted or structured. Attorneys should structure the settlement to minimize tax liability while potential tax liability must be included in calculations for adequate compensation. Tax exemption is based on whether the personal injury is a tort...
- Research articles 1995-03-01
- Greyhound Lines to Pay Rochester, N.Y., Man in Discrimination Lawsuit.
- By Tom Buckham, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 17--A man who claimed he was denied a bus driver's job because of his long dreadlocks has won a $33,500 settlement from Greyhound Lines. The company agreed to...
- Research articles 2002-01-17
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