by admin | Sep 17, 2014 | Discrimination
Two McCormick & Schmick's restaurants in Baltimore, Maryland, have reached a $1.3 million settlement in a six-year-old racial discrimination lawsuit.The Baltimore Sun reports that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had first filed the...
by admin | Sep 12, 2014 | Discrimination
A federal data mining contractor has agreed to a settlement in an employment discrimination lawsuit that accused the company of discriminating against thousands of minority job applicants.In a press release issued September 10, 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor...
by admin | Aug 27, 2014 | Discrimination
A fired People Magazine editor has filed a lawsuit against her former employer over allegations of racial discrimination.The Huffington Post reports that Tatsha Robertson, the magazine's only black senior editor in its publication history, is suing...
by admin | Aug 18, 2014 | Discrimination
It has certainly been a long time coming, but the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has finally issued new guidelines for discrimination against pregnant workers.According to Newsday, the new rules expand on "many of the protections already...
by admin | Jul 31, 2014 | Discrimination
A federal jury has awarded an Illinois police officer $540,000 in a discrimination lawsuit, The Chicago Sun Times reports. The jury found that retired Sgt. Lawrence C. Knasiak of the Chicago Police Department discriminated against Officer Detlef Sommerfield...
by admin | Jun 26, 2014 | Discrimination
A federal appeals court has upheld a jury's decision to award $243,000 to two former truck drivers who say they were the victims of racial harassment in the workplace. Contonius Gill and Robert Floyd Jr. were both employees of Widenhouse Inc., a North...
