A young woman employed by a non-profit agency in the Bronx filed sexual harassment charges against her boss after she was fired from the agency. The woman states she was let go since she refused to accept sexual advances by her male supervisor on numerous occasions....
A former employee of a Long Island school district has filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination. The district claims he was dismissed for poor job performance, but the victim feels it was a retaliatory act resulting from his exposure of the district's widespread...
Stereotypes abound at the workplace. Age discrimination has been no exception but recent trends seem to indicate that employers are finding justification for hiring more mature workers. While previous criticism of senior employees has included their resistance to...
A huge stride has been marked with the passage of a bill that would guarantee overtime pay for domestic workers who work more than nine-hour days in a 45-hour week. California became the second state after New York to support such a bill.The new legislature, AB-241,...
A jury decision recently re-emphasized the use of the n-word is not acceptable anytime, anyplace. While the racial slur has come to be acceptable among the black community, the court found otherwise, ruling its use is just plain wrong. The controversial word has been...
A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed five of the six gender discrimination claims filed against the Bloomberg Financial News Corporation. The plaintiffs are current and former employees who claimed their careers were negatively impacted six years ago when they...
A leading brokerage firm has just agreed to settle a multi-million dollar lawsuit based on racial discrimination filed by black brokers on Wall Street. The payout would be the largest race discrimination by an American employer and underscores that blacks in in the...
The office of the workplace justice coordinator at the Workers Defense Project is always a busy place. Most of the workers who go to her Austin-based office have labor-related complaints to report. She has heard about cases of missing digits, unpaid labor, and poor...
