Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and private U.S. employer with over 1 million workers, is being sued by a group of women employees who are alleging discrimination. The women claim that Wal-Mart underpays female employees, allows hostile work environments, and denies equal promotion opportunities to women. Depending on which estimates you look at, there could [...]
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Ricci v. DeStefano
Posted in Women and Work, tagged CT, Firefighters, New Haven, Ricci v. DeStefano, SCOTUS, Title VII on June 30, 2009, | 4 Comments »
In a decision that could have far-reaching implications for employers and the labor force nationwide, yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of the firefighter plaintiffs in the case Ricci v. DeStefano. In Ricci, 20 white firefighters and one Hispanic firefighter sued the city of New Haven, Connecticut, for throwing out the results [...]
We Shall Overcome
Posted in Sex Discrimination, tagged civil rights, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Title VII on July 2, 2008, | 1 Comment »
Most people today can go wherever they want, work wherever they want, shop and eat wherever they like, or date and marry whomever they choose. Struggles to attain these and other basic rights are thought by some to be stories for a U.S. history class or old films. Even while I was growing up in [...]
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