L&T Group of Companies, the largest employer of manufacturers in Saipan, will pay $1.7 million as part of a series of discrimination suits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The discrimination was both blatant and rampant. According to the EEOC, L&T routinely discriminated based on the country of origin of its workers, among [...]

L&T Group of Companies, the largest employer of manufacturers in Saipan, will pay $1.7 million as part of a series of discrimination suits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The discrimination was both blatant and

Two NASCAR officials have been fired as part of an ongoing, $225 million, racial and sexual discrimination lawsuit. The two employees, Tom Knox and Bud Moore, are accused by Mauricia Grant of “exposing themselves to her, and making graphic and lewd jokes,” according to

A former Kelly Services employee, Lynn Noyes, was awarded $6.5 million by a Sacramento federal jury on Friday after suing the company for reverse religious discrimination. She argued that a less qualified employee earned the manager position that she was seeking because he was a member of

A new law in the United Kingdom will protect employees from sexual harassment beyond just coworkers and bosses, now extending to “customers, suppliers and others they encounter in the course of their work,” according to a story in the UK’s Guardian. Well, technically the punishment still goes to employers if they are aware of the [...]

Tipping is an activity so fervently argued and debated in the United States that entire books have been published on tipping etiquette. Those who have worked for tips argue for it, those that haven’t argue against it, and both sides tend to leave the debate unsettled and more angry than when they started. But, generally [...]

On February 11th, the United States Department of Labor announced its proposed changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) – changes that have been in the works for quite some time. For those unfamiliar with the act, it was brought about in 1993 and permits workers to take unpaid leave for serious health-related [...]

Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced one of the largest settlements ever in an individual case. It went against (if you can call a settlement “against”) Lockheed Martin, forcing the company to pay $2.5 million for knowingly looking the other way on alleged racial

Yesterday, an Employment Tribunal in the UK ruled on the country’s first employment discrimination case involving a worker fired for being too young. The Tribunal sided with 20-year-old Megan Thomas, a former membership secretary at the Eight Members Club in London.  Ms. Thomas complained that her boss

In a 93-page ruling last week a federal judge threw out an Oklahoma state law forcing companies to allow employees to bring guns to work.

Chicago’s second biggest law firm paid $27.5 million on Saturday to 32 past and present lawyers in order to settle an age-related discrimination suit.

A Las Vegas man was awarded $3.7 million by a federal jury after suing his former employer for wrongful termination. Larry Edward Dillon, 61, of Las Vegas accused West Group of Minnesota, his former employer, of firing him because of his age. Dillon’s lawyer, Randy Rumph, said the company was getting rid of more experienced, [...]

A white state worker was awarded $150,000 by a federal jury after he claimed to have lost his job due to racial slurs said to him by his black boss. Mark Pasternak, who helped troubled youths for the state Office of Children and Family Services, worked under Tommy E. Baines for three years before being [...]

The Level Playing Field Institute, a San Fransisco-based think-tank, estimated $64 billion as the “hidden cost” of work discrimination in a new research study. The company notes that even though the costs of and reasons for leaving a job are subjective, the figure was calculated by “multiplying the average annual compensation of a US manager [...]

Final regulations regarding a California law mandating sexual harassment training for supervisors went into effect Friday, August 17th. California law AB 1825 requires all employers who supervise more than 50 employees to undertake two hours of sexual harassment training once every two years. When first implemented in 2005, the law was unclear on whether web-based [...]

Cafe del Mar, a popular restaurant near Lima, Peru, was shut down for 60 days for discriminatory entrance rules. The store was also fined $76,000. Although three other clubs in Lima have been fined for similar charges, this is the first example of an establishment being forced to close its doors. The closing marked the [...]

Casual Male won a $1.5 million settlement against both a former associate and a competitor. A jury determined that Robert Yarbrough broke his contract with the company after he violated non-competition obligations and leaked company secrets. He was charged with $1.1 million in damages. Westport Big & Tall, a competitor of Casual Male, was charged [...]

A 65-year-old St. Louis man on his way to Los Angeles went missing after he was kicked off a train by Amtrak personnel near Williams, Arizona. The man was suffering from a diabetic shock which was confused by the Amtrak employees as drunken behavior. According to police, Roosevelt Sims was asked to leave the train [...]

Morgan Stanley had agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over alleged systemic discrimination against 1,200 African-American and Latino employees, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case. According to the original compliant filed last year (which can be downloaded here), the firm has discriminated against African Americans and Latinos in the distribution of accounts and [...]

According to media reports and court documents, Nike Inc. will pay $7.6 million to settle a class-action suit over alleged discrimination against black employees at its Chicago Niketown store. Nike was originally sued over this supposed systemic discrimination back in December 2003. The case, which involved approximately 400 current and former black employees of the [...]

Online virtual worlds like “Second Life” continue to grow at a rapid clip. Commerce, business meetings, and other far racier ‘encounters’ are becoming more commonplace in these virtual worlds. To help protect its reputation, IBM announced this week that it was establishing a code of conduct to govern its more than 5,000 employees who have [...]

In a “reverse discrimination” lawsuit, a federal jury has ruled that Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. did indeed discriminate against a white former maintenance manager at its old Landover coffee-roasting plant based on race. John Sullivan was hired in 1999 and then later demoted and replaced by a black subordinate. He claimed an African [...]

According to Belgian newspaper De Standaard, a Belgian businessman has blamed his discriminatory hiring practices on his dog, claiming that his dog was racist and would bite non-whites. The 53-year-old Nigerian man told De Standaard he arrived at the Belgian’s wrought-iron business and was immediately confronted by the barking dog. The Belgian turned the man [...]

Hollywood must just go mining in the halls of California’s government political bureaucracy for some of its ideas. The state’s Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (*yawn, we can barely stay awake*) is being sued by Claire Connelly, a former secretary who alleges that the board’s Chairwoman insisted she be a surrogate mother for the Chair’s baby, [...]

As reported in Human Resource Executive Magazine, the new EEOC regulation allowing for discrimination against younger workers became effective this month. The new rule, which was a response to 2004 Supreme Court decision in General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. vs. Cline, allows employers to specifically tailor benefit plans and job ads to older workers without [...]