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Name Discrimination at Elite Firms?
2011-12-01 22:16:00 A couple of weeks ago, Bryan Caplan of the libertarian blog Library of Economics and Liberty published How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story, a summary of an academic paper about the hiring practices of elite professional service firms (investment … Continue reading →
I Help Settle a Human Rights Agency Age Discrimination Complaint for $600.0
2011-09-15 20:28:00 In the last couple of weeks, I helped a client settle an age discrimination complaint by an ex-employee for $600.00 at a state’s human rights’ agency. I don’t want to be too specific about the details due to confidentiality & ethical concerns. The complaint was baseless. The employer is a great social services organization. The ...
Saudis Tweet: Be Kind to Foreign Workers
2011-09-05 15:38:00 This is an excerpt from Arabnews, an English language daily paper from Saudi Arabia: JAZAN: A number of Saudis have launched a campaign on Twitter asking their compatriots to be kind to the foreign manpower living with them and to spread awareness in society about humanitarian treatment to foreign laborers. They also tweeted that Saudis ...
By: SD's Corner
Saudi Sponsorship System ? Modern Day Slavery
2011-08-28 21:50:00 The night was young and the cool spring breeze sent a chill down my spine as I wrapped my arms around myself and exited the warmth of the mosque. Isha prayer had just finished and I thought of my evening plans as I tried to locate my sandals among the heap of shoes and slippers ...
By: SD's Corner
Title IX and the reverse discrimination argument
2011-06-03 14:00:00 The recent fight to restore men's track at the University of Delaware has raised some compelling questions about administrative transparency, athletic department priorities, and--of course--Title IX. My focus here is on the last, specifically the discussion about the legislation that has emerged since the announcement of the team's elimination in January and through the recent filing of a complaint by the team with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR).
Review "Trouble in Mind": Rehearsed Discrimination Simmers to a B
2011-02-13 16:40:00 According to Shakespeare, 'all the world is a stage.' People are constantly acting out their society assigned roles. If everybody is acting, what is real and what is pretend? And what happens when a professional actor rejects both the roles she plays in the world and on stage? The Artistic Home presents Alice Childress' Obie award-winning play TROUBLE IN MIND. It's 1957 on Broadway. A racially-mixed cast begins rehearsals for "Chaos in Belleville." Black cast members joke about the limited and stereotyped options available for black actors. Wiletta, an established actress gives the new kid tips on taking white direction as a black person. When the kid becomes the suggested submissive, jovial caricature, Wiletta starts to regret her influence. As the white director and white cast members act super-sensitive to potential racial slurs and segregation within the ensemble, their true prejudice slips out in subtle, obtuse ways. With increasing indignation, Wiletta questions ...
Should You File a Claim for Job Disability Discrimination?: The Facts
2011-01-25 17:57:00 With the U. S. job market remaining unrelenting in a still sluggish economy, the filing of discrimination lawsuits against employers has increased by 7.2% from 2009-2010. The largest increase was from people who said they have been discriminated against due to a disability. This increase may have something to do with the recent changes in the EEOC act in the leniency of the definition of the term disability under the Obama Administration. Still, many employment experts say the increase in the discrimination law suits has more to do with the massive and broad lay-offs over the past couple of years. Workers have found it difficult to find a new job after being laid-off or fired. And the only...
CT Secretary of State Sued for Censorship and Discrimination by WWE
2010-10-27 01:00:00 ?On behalf of myself, my company, WWE® fans and any Connecticut citizen who wants to exercise their constitutional right to vote, I have filed a lawsuit today asserting that Susan Bysiewicz?s directive that allows poll workers to refuse registered voters wearing WWE merchandise the right to vote is a flagrant act of censorship and discrimination,? said Vince McMahon, Chairman and CEO, World Wrestling Entertainment.
By: KLQ Blog
Fat Discrimination
2010-07-12 22:08:00 Because Corporate America discriminates against Fat People, just as they discriminate against color or sex or gayness.
Supreme Court okays viewpoint discrimination
2010-07-06 03:59:00 Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Wrote horrifying decisionLost in all the bickering over the (correctly decided) Supreme Court's snuffing of Chicago's handgun ordinance is another (incorrectly decided) high court decision trashing other freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights.Those are the rights to free speech, expressive association and free exercise of religion -- among the first of all the freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.The shocking decision denied a campus Christian association the same access to a university's funding and communication resources that are available to about 60 other student groups. The group is the Christian Legal Society, an association of Christian lawyers and law students. The intolerant school is the Hastings College of Law, a part of the University of California....
The GTL? Sunday Guest Column ? ?A November To Remember? By Christopher L. D
2010-05-03 01:01:00 GTL? Sunday Columnist: Author And “Ever-So-SLIGHTLY-Right-O-f-Center” Political Pundit Christopher L. Doster Employs His Right-Leaning Style Of Humor And Sarcasm To Voice His Frustration Regarding Our Current Economic Climate As Well As The British Petroleum Oil Spill… ?A November... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Wal-Mart Shares Drop As 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Opens Door For La
2010-04-27 03:25:00 OOPS — The “Oh, So Smiley One“, China’s Number One Customer And Sir Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Former Employer Is In BIG Trouble Again… Smile, y’all — Wally-World has been dodging the old “gender bias” bullet since 2001 and according to The... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Small Business Administration Faces Potential Discrimination Trial (from NY
2010-04-18 19:48:00 http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2-010/04/15/s-b-a-faces-potential--discrimination-trial/?pagemode-=print April 15, 2010, 5:45 pm S.B.A. Faces Potential Discrimination Trial By ROBB MANDELBAUM The Small Business Administration could be headed to court to defend itself against accusations of discrimination in its investment financing programs. On March 29, a federal judge in Washington ruled against the S.B.A.'s motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by a would-be venture capital fund. The fund, Diamond Ventures, which is based in Atlanta and run by two African-American men, planned to invest in poor, largely black communities in the Southeast. Diamond brought the lawsuit in 2003, after trying, unsuccessfully, for two years to win licenses to participate in the S.B.A.'s New Markets Venture Capital program, as well as to be a traditional small-business...
Sales increase, housing discrimination, new play in this week's real e
2010-02-26 17:01:00 Here's a round up of the real estate news in Chicago this week. -Sales rose 29 percent this January over January 2009 Crain's reports that sales were also up 14 percent over last month, although prices are down about 5.4% -HUD is asking gay couples to help with anti-discrimination study It's illegal to discriminate against homosexuals for affordable housing in Chicago, but the Washington Post says homosexuals are helping out in a study to find out how often discrimination may occur. -'Clybourne Park' explores racism in Chicago neighborhoods The play is a reverse 'Raisin in the Sun', showing what happens to a white family that moves into a traditionally black neighborhood, according to a Canadian Press review. -Sales of previously owned homes down...
Equality Bill addresses discrimination against Christians
2010-01-25 10:26:00 Ekklesia Associate Sarah Hill is quoted in the Guardian read more
By: Ekklesia
Suit to allege racial discrimination in funding of CTA vs. Metra
2010-01-06 18:53:00 UPDATE: Here's the report on this suit from Chicago Breaking News.A lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in the "funding and provision of public transportation" was slated to be filed later today, say attorneys for the plaintiffs. The following is straight from the media alert. More to come later from CTA Tattler and Chicago Breaking News.African American and Latino CTA riders will file a class action lawsuit today alleging that an Illinois transit funding scheme enacted in 1983, and renewed in 2008, funnels a disproportionate share of capital and operating funding to Metra, resulting in wide service disparities between whites and minority riders. Over the last 26 years, funding inequities have caused the CTA to increase fares and cut services, resulting in...
Teacher sues Chicago Public Schools for race, age discrimination
2010-01-05 19:15:00 A former teacher at Amundson High School and the Chicago Military Academy Bronzeville is suing the Chicago Board of Education for race and age discrimination. Antoinette Barnes, who was a computer information technology teacher at the military academy from 2000 to 2008 and worked at Amundson for eight years prior to that, is described in the complaint as "[someone] whose race is Black and age is over forty (40) years." Barnes says that in June of 2008 she was informed that her position had been closed and she became a city-wide reassigned teacher for the next school year and a cadre teacher the following year. According to the complaint, in June or July of 2009, a computer information technology...
World AIDS Day : Never There Discrimination against PLWHA
2009-12-01 15:00:00 Government rightly Day not only commemorates World AIDS with the ceremonial, but to no proof the attitude of the government not to discriminate against PLWHA (people living with HIV / AIDS). It is said to staff Drug Rehabilitation Center Pine Ginan House Foundation, the detikbandung when contacted by mobile phone on Tuesday (1/12/2009). According to him, government or other parties to align the HIV / AIDS with ordinary people."There needs to be proof-proof, do not there is discrimination against the HIV / AIDS. AIDS Memorial Day should not be ceremonial, we want to with HIV / AIDS in line with other communities." Ginan said. Ginan example, there are two cases where people living with HIV / AIDS in Bandung, was fired from the operation because caught HIV / AIDS. "There were two people, around the year 2004 or 2005, two men fired from different companies. Initially for HIV / AIDS patients are sick," he explained. "Obviously we are very sad to see the current conditions, why HIV / AIDS...
Man sues Starwood Hotels for age and sex discrimination, called a "vag
2009-11-09 22:24:00 A 67 year old Glen Ellyn man who worked as a banquet manager for Starwood Hotels is suing the organization for age and sex discrimination. Bernardo Sanhueza Campoy says that he worked for Starwood for nine years without incident until January of this year when his new supervisors, Tim Ohrn and Audiel Alanis, began harassing and micromanaging him in a manner not afforded to similarly situated younger and female coworkers. The complaint states that Ohrn repeatedly asked Campoy when he was going to retire. Campoy also says he received derogatory emails from an email address that appeared to be related to the Sheraton, such as one that stated "Your wife has bigger balls...than you. You have the vagina! You live off...
Man sues DeVry for race discrimination
2009-10-19 22:55:00 In a one page, handwritten complaint Chukwuemeka Okafor is suing DeVry University for race discrimination against African-Americans and cites lower wages, promotions and terminations. He is suing for "One point two million." See the complaint after the jump. For Tweets of recent legal filings and legal news, follow me on Twitter at jenfernicola....
Former Calumet Park cop alleges discrimination by black police chief
2009-10-07 00:21:00 A former Calumet Park police officer who is white is suing the municipality for discrimination he says he was subjected to by the black chief of police. Plaintiff Mark Groszek asserts in the complaint that, since defendant Mark A. Davis became the chief of police in 2002, plaintiff and other white police officers have been "subjected to various forms of harassment by Chief Davis in an effort to get them to quit or to compile enough negative evidence against them to justify their discharge." In May of 2006, Groszek suffered an assault while conducting his duties as a police officer and, over the course of the next two years, experienced pain and panic attacks that made him miss time at...
Carrie Prejean Files Religious Discrimination Suit
2009-09-01 15:29:00 Fallen Miss California Carrie Prejean comes back full force and wants to sue everybody (Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler), except Donald Trump, the owner of the Miss Universe Organization, for everything, including religious discrimination, defamation, public disclosure of private facts, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress. This is the perfect timing ...
Age Discrimination in Babysitting
2009-08-26 20:10:00 While browsing through some of the babysitting jobs on Sittercity the other day, I came across a post that specifically stated a preference for "a younger sitter." Sittercity only features sitters who are 18 and older, so it's not like this parent was looking for a preteen, but he definitely wanted someone who had just completed high school.Which begs the question... why?...
Discrimination against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Islamic State of Pakistan
2009-08-13 22:54:00 Discrimination against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Islamic State of Pakistan Posted using ShareThis
Lisa Madigan drops another discrimination lawsuit on Wells Fargo
2009-08-01 01:45:00 Last month, The Chicago Reporter raised the question: "If Baltimore sued Wells Fargo, why aren't we?" Today, the Illinois Attorney General became the latest in a growing line of folks to charge the lending giant with discriminatory lending practices....
Swim club accused of racial discrimination against kids
2009-07-09 22:49:00 Well isn’t this a shame, you have a daycare and you want to take your kids to the swimming pool, nothing wrong with that right? Except, if the daycare kids are made up of Blacks. Racisim strong as ever…read more below from CNN. From Susan Candiotti and Jean Shin CNN (CNN) — A Philadelphia-area day care center said ...
By: Today's Talk
Liberal Supreme Court (?SCOTUS?) Justices Prove To Be Just As Correct On Re
2009-06-30 04:57:00 Why Are The Conservative Justices The Ones Who Rule In Favor Of The Racially-Discriminated While The Liberals Oppose Them? New Haven, Connecticut Part II… Not that long ago, our so-called “liberal” SCOTUS justices ruled in favor of “Big Bidness” during the Kelo... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Archdiocese of Chicago sued over racial discrimination allegations at a Cat
2009-06-25 06:55:00 The mother of a student at St. Bernadette Catholic School in Evergreen Park, Ill. is suing the school, the Archdiocese of Chicago, the school's principal and four teachers, alleging that her son was subjected to a hostile environment at the school and was treated differently because of his race.The student plaintiff is black. According to the complaint, St. Bernadette has a "primarily Caucasian student body and the staff is a primarily Caucasian staff."...
Supreme Court Renders Age Discrimination Impossible To Prove
2009-06-22 17:00:00 Many workers tend to believe that long tenure, a good work ethic and loyalty will be rewarded by their employer. Instead of jumping ship, many have stayed at a particular company with the reliance that such allegiance will reap long term benefits. The Supreme Court just shattered such job security by making it more difficult for older workers to prove age discrimination....
Illinois' Abbott Laboratories sued for gender discrimination
2009-06-19 05:54:00 A longtime employee of a pharmaceutical company based out of north surburban Chicago is suing her company of 27 years, claiming she suffered gender discrimination and retaliation after she reported the discrimination. Olga Jasinsky alleges that her employer Abbott Laboratories did not promote her for 11 years, and that she "received significantly less pay than her similarly situated male colleagues."...
Prop 8 Decision Day: California Upholds Discrimination
2009-06-02 22:13:00 The California Supreme Court upheld the discriminatory Proposition 8 and has yet again told its same sex citizens that they are not worthy of equal protection under the law. While the 18,000 same sex marriages that were performed in the short amount of time that the state recognized gay marriage in 2008 will be ...
By: Menstrual Poetry
Is Wipro Engaging in Discrimination In the United States?
2009-05-21 10:48:00 This article really caught my eye. Indian IT service provider Wipro is increasing the number of US and European workers it employs so its customers in the regions will not stop buying from it if protectionism increases. At the launch of an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)in February, designed to improve trade between the UK and India, IT suppliers spoke about the dangers of protectionist economic policies. Wipro, which employs 97,000, people, said it wanted to increase the number of employees outside India, and it is easier now because there are more available. Currently, about 8% of its workers are from outside India. Andy Gallagher, consultant at Compass Management Consulting, said Wipro is not alone in increasing the number of staff it has outside India. He said certain roles are traditionally provided by staff local to the customer or by people from India. "The offshore/onshore model, where you fly Indian staff over for a few months at a time,is losing its attractivene...
By: NoSlaves.com
Fear and Anti-Male Discrimination in the Classroom
2009-04-26 03:21:00 In his book The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, Barry Glassner discusses how Americans have become unnecessarily fearful of many things, thanks in good part to opportunistic politicians, single-minded advocacy groups, sensationalist news media, "news magazine" programming and so on. Such irrational fear complexes ...
Vivek Wadhwa Promotes Age Discrimination Against U.S. Workers
2009-03-05 00:07:00 Once again, we get the idiotorials and biased research trying to claim immigrants are critical to the U.S. economy. Every single time, U.S. workers are ignored, the underemployment of U.S. citizens is discounted, and most of all, the wholesale, institutionalized age discrimination that fires workers over the age of 35 and replaces them with a steady stream of cheap young labor from other countries is endorsed. In Vivek Wadhwa's constant promotion of workers who are not U.S. citizens, once again the prejudice against Americans shows: the vast majority of these returnees were relatively young. The average age was 30 for Indian returnees, and 33 for Chinese... Wadhwa is referring to the workers leaving the United States and returning to their home countries. Note the focus on the keyword young. The implication is if one is experienced, older, magically their talents are no longer worthwhile. This is age discrimination at it's best and interwoven through the United States tech...
By: NoSlaves.com
Government accused of anti-Christian discrimination
2009-02-15 22:49:00 'The British Government was today accused by a shadow minister of failing to prevent "systematic discrimination" against Christians in Britain. Shadow communities minister Stewart Jackson told MPs of a school receptionist who was "on the verge" of suspension for defending her Christian beliefs.Jennie Cain, 38, from Devon, faces the sack for asking a church for prayer support after her five-year-old daughter was told off for talking about God and heaven during a lesson.The incident comes days after nurse Caroline Petrie, from Weston-super-Mare, was suspended for offering to pray for a patient.Speaking from the back benches during exchanges on Commons business, Mr Jackson (Peterborough) called for a debate on "systematic and institutional discrimination towards Christians".He said: "We saw last week the case of Mrs Petrie who was suspended by North Somerset Primary Care Trust and only reinstated after a media furore."This week we see anti-Christian zealots in Devon who are on the ver...
By: Christian Quoter
New anti-discrimination bills expands protections for gay youth and seniors
2009-01-01 19:00:00 Three anti-discrimination bills go into effect today providing expanded protections for gay and lesbian youth and seniors with legislation requiring sensitivity training and instruction on the state's anti-harassment laws. AB 3015 requires administrators and licensed foster parents receive training about state laws that call on schools to be free of harassment and violence. Senate Bill 1729
Discrimination, Discrimination!It is Everywhere!
2008-08-03 04:00:00 It is in your weeds and on your signs. It is around the corner and behind the vines! D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N! Don’t look now…. you might be offended at any moment by everyday life. The answer, of course, is to sue or sic the big Bad Government on the (obviously white heterosexual male) offenders. Item Number One: “Men At Work” ...
By: GayPatriot
Christian registrar wins discrimination case
2008-07-10 07:13:00 Christian Institute reports, "A Christian registrar from Islington who was bullied and threatened with the sack because of her religious beliefs on same sex unions has succeeded in her claims of unlawful discrimination by the council.In its unanimous judgment, the employment tribunal found that Miss Lillian Ladele was directly discriminated against by Islington Council after she asked to be allowed not to perform civil partnership registrations.Miss Ladele was supported by her Legal team, James Dingemans QC and Mark Jones of Ormerods solicitors. The case was financed by The Christian Institute?s Legal Defence Fund.The highly significant ruling confirmed that the various acts of direct discrimination committed against Miss Ladele by Islington Council on the grounds of her religious belief included: failing to consider her for promotion; deciding to discipline her and threatening her with dismissal; concluding she had committed gross misconduct; failing to redress allegations that she...
By: Christian Quoter
Harman pushes discrimination plan
2008-06-26 14:58:00 BBC says, "Equality minister Harriet Harman has set out plans to allow firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority job candidates. She said firms should be able to choose a woman over a man of equal ability if they wanted to - or vice versa." So it is OK to discriminate against men in general and the majority community in particular. Harman's post should be renamed as the minister for inequality and social engineering.
By: Christian Quoter
Japan Recognizes Discrimination Against Ainu
2008-06-07 09:05:00 The Japanese parliament finally got around to acknowledging the ongoing discrimination in their country against its original inhabitants– the Ainu. A resolution passed by parliament recognized the Ainu have their own language and language and will now be recognized as being in the category of an indigenous people. The resolution states: “As the Government, we ...
Other Prevalent Issues as Race Discrimination
2008-06-04 16:40:00 Race discrimination may be considered as one of the most common forms of discrimination in the workplace. Despite growing cultural diversity in today?s workforce, it seems unimaginable to realize that racial prejudice still exists.
How to Deal with Employment Discrimination
2008-06-02 16:52:00 Although many employees in California, particularly in Los Angeles, are experiencing some sort of discrimination from their employers, only a few understand their rights and pursue legal actions for suitable compensation.
Europe?s Anti-Discrimination Madness Goes On and On and On?
2008-06-01 17:35:00 This communiqué from Jean-Marie Le Pen summarizes another directive from the European Union on “multiple discrimination”…. Scarcely had the French Parliament transposed [into the French Constitution] three directives from the EU on the fight against discrimination, than the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to decree a new directive, this one against ...
By: I Call BS!
Prosecute universities and colleges that flout discrimination law, urges un
2008-05-29 11:55:00 Colleges and universities are failing to write ra
Is Plus Size Discrimination on the Rise?
2008-05-23 12:57:00 I came across an interesting article talking about some recent research into weight discrimination.Yale university have entered into studies that show that more and more people are facing discrimination due to their weight, a problem which is so widespread it's often more prevalent than race & gender discrimination.According to Yale there has been a 66% increase in the past decade, to include situations like healthcare and the workplace.Sandy Schaffer of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance says she experienced this first hand. 'I was told point blank, that I was qualified enough and that I was smart enough and capable of doing the job, but they wouldn't offer me the job because I was too fat,' Schaffer said.When asked if the employer was that blunt, Schaffer said, 'Point blank, those words.Schaffer is now fighting back with the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. She's trying to get 'weight' and 'height' added to anti-discrimination laws.Thes...
£5,000 sex discrimination award to woman against laddish direct marketing f
2008-05-22 11:23:00 Telesales account manager Theresa Bailey was recently awarded £5,146 by an employment tribunal after her manager forced her to wear a badge proclaiming "I'm Simple". Bailey, 43 - the only woman on her sales team at Kent dir
Discrimination alleged in taxi protest in Laois
2008-05-21 20:40:00 AS Laois taxi drivers took their protest to the streets recently, a startling claim was made that non-national taxi drivers have been frozen out and weren’t invited to join in with the protest. (...)
By: Taxi Blog
Government May Have Massive Surveillance Program for Use in National Emerge
2008-05-21 19:39:00 AlterNet ?Main Core,? a program that authorizes ?computer searches through massive [unspecified] electronic databases? in order to discover ?potential threats? in the event of a ?national emergency?: According to a senior government official??There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ?enemies of the state? almost instantaneously.? ? One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention. These so-called ?Continuity of Governance? plans, Radar notes, ?are shrouded in extreme secrecy, effectively unregulated by Congress or the courts.? ?Main Core is the table of contents for all th...
Lending Discrimination: HUD Launches Campaign
2008-05-21 00:00:00 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it has launched a national public service announcement (PSA) campaign that will educate the public, especially minorities, about their rights under the lending provisions of the federal Fair Housing Act. |
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