by admin | Jul 25, 2012 | Employee Rights
A former female police officer in Hyattsville, Maryland, accused the city's police department of ongoing sexual harassment and sexual discrimination. Marsha Lessard filed a lawsuit on June 28 in a state court and alleged she was a victim of sexual assault by an...
by admin | Jul 24, 2012 | Employee Rights
Dr. Andrew Sibley, the interim Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma, was fired on July 12 for breaching violence and weapons rules in the workplace. Sibley admits that he brought a brought a pocketknife to work and even flipped it open a few times, but he says that he...
by admin | Jul 23, 2012 | Discrimination In The Workplace
A U.S. court in Louisville, Kentucky, is going to take another look at a racial discrimination lawsuit filed three years ago against health insurance giant, Humana Inc. by ex-employee, Kathryn Keys. According to official court documents, the plaintiff, an African...
by admin | Jul 20, 2012 | Discrimination In The Workplace
Arizona sheriff Joseph Arpaio was in court on Thursday, July 19, after he was accused of racial discrimination against Latinos. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona and other lawyers that are serving as the prosecution in the case have filed a...
by admin | Jul 18, 2012 | Employee Rights
As an African-American female graduate student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the late 1980s, Dr. Carolyn West said she was a victim of sexual harassment. It did not go on for a few months, or even a year or even two, but rather, a full three years. The...
