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Think 76 is too old to work as a diesel mechanic? Think 60 is too old to teach English as a second language? Think again. Recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settlements provide an important reminder to employers to judge employment candidates objectively.
Read More »Wal-Mart wants gender bias action rolled back
(Dolan Media Newswires) — Retail giant Wal-Mart has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt what could be the mother of all employment gender bias class action lawsuits.
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Read More »Men require equal protection, too
Whether it’s Jimmy Fallon’s male stage manager suing him because he was replaced by a woman or Michael Douglas’s character fighting for his professional life in the film “Disclosure,” more men are complaining about being victims of sexual discrimination and harassment.
Tagged with: EEOC equal protection sexual harassment
Read More »$1M Title VII settlement Rochester’s largest
Samuel Crenshaw needed his job to support his family, but the appalling way he was treated almost destroyed them. For some 15 years he was called nasty names using the worst racial slurs imaginable. He watched his fellow ...
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Read More »Equal pay task force recommendations issued
A task force commissioned by the White House to find ways to better ensure compliance with wage discrimination laws to reduce pay gaps has issued a series of recommendations, including better coordination ...
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Read More »Genetic info statute challenges are evolving
Employers may want to get to know a new statute named GINA, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. The law went into effect in November and protects employees from discrimination based on genetic ...
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Read More »Supreme Court leans toward arbitration
Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court seem ready to fight over mandatory arbitration, but two local attorneys say the area involved — employers and manufacturers who try to ban class-action litigation through contracts — is rarely disputed locally.
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Read More »NYSBA leery of MAP reform
A proposed workers’ compensation program touted by the state as a means to streamline some claims processes is drawing the ire of the New York State Bar Association.
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Read More »Supreme Court to rule on FLSA case
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether an oral complaint about a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act is protected conduct under the statute’s anti-retaliation provision.
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Read More »Equal pay bill debate focuses on lawyers
At a U.S. Senate hearing on legislation aimed at closing the gender pay gap, lawmakers, federal agents and experts spent much of the time discussing whether the bill would result in a flood of litigation ...
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