Employment discrimination can come in many guises and wears many veils. These policies are often cloaked in the language of neutrality, seemingly applying to all persons in a neutral fashion, but they often become an effective tool to exclude some by...
Say, you work at a job that requires that you be on your feet most, or all, of the day. Now, let's say you are a woman, and you have become pregnant. As your pregnancy progresses, you become tired more easily from standing and you need to visit the restroom more...
Fairness is hard. In a business, the hiring and treatment of employees can be viewed in many ways. It can be seen as important and the "core" of the business. Or it can be seen as problematic necessity, with an attitude of while we need them, they are not important....
Under the federal employment laws, workplace discrimination can be shown to have occurred by disparate treatment. This is where an individual is intentionally discriminated against because they are a member of a protected class, such as gender, racial or religious...
In a positive decision for workers, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a case back to the district court to decide the issue of whether United Parcel Service offered reasonable accommodation to some employees, but refused to provide the same accommodation to a pregnant...
Memories of the recent recession are finally starting to fade for many people thanks to the nation's sustained economic recovery, particularly in relation to the job market. Indeed, data from the U.S. Labor Department shows that roughly 250,000 jobs were added every...
There is a great deal of illegal discrimination that occurs in the workplace. Some is inadvertent; some businesses fail to grasp the mandatory nature of the federal civil rights and employment laws, either because they do not believe they apply or because do not...
After a law is passed to deal with a form of discrimination, many people naively assume that that action solves the issue and ends that type of discrimination. However, merely placing a law on the books is a long way from ending the discrimination.Pregnancy...
Sex discrimination was prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But as we noted last time, discussing Patricia Arquette's Oscar acceptance speech and the topic of equal pay for women, the issue is complex, and that is one reason that even with all of the...
Some people were put off by Patricia Arquette's Oscar acceptance speech. Some felt was insufficiently inclusive, while others were unhappy that a women who is a Hollywood actor, and earns many times per hour what most American workers earn in a week or even month, was...
