by admin | Aug 2, 2012 | Employee Rights
McDonald's prides itself on serving hungry customers satisfying foods at cheap prices. However, the fast-food giant may become known for something a lot more serious: sexual harassment. According to various reports, Missoula Mac, a corporation that owns 25...
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 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...
by admin | Jul 16, 2012 | Employee Rights
On July 13, the Iowa Supreme Court decided that the University of Iowa should not be forced to release student records to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, the school's newspaper, after the university had been initially obligated to hand over hundreds of documents...
by admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Employee Rights
Whirlpool, an appliance brand known for its kitchen, laundry and home goods, has reportedly dropped its appeal of a court's judgement on a racial and sexual harassment lawsuit in Tennessee that was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of...