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Showing posts with label race discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race discrimination. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2020

PLEASE, I’m freaking begging you, DO NOT use social media to determine applicants’ race and gender

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Almost as long as social media has existed, employers have searched social media to dig up dirt on prospective employees. There is nothing...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

What does it mean to be "similarly situated" for purposes of proving discrimination?

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The Ohio Department of Public Safety fired Morris Johnson, an African American state trooper, after he sexually harassed multiple women wh...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

“Hairstyle discrimination” laws: a solution in search of a problem

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I fully embrace the irony of a local news broadcast holding me  out as the expert on hair discrimination. 👨🏻‍🦲 Irony notwithstanding, h...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

When it comes to racial preference, the customer is never right

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An Illinois Buffalo Wild Wings has fired all employees involved in an incident in which staff acceded to the request of a Caucasian “regu...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Is this the worst defense ever to a discrimination claim?

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Litigation is painful. It takes a lot of time, costs a lot of money, and has lots of variables that you just can’t control. Especially whe...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

New EEOC case is a not-so-subtle reminder that we still have a lot of work to do to improve race relations

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The allegations in this case —which the EEOC just filed against a Louisiana river transporter—remind us that while race relations have imp...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Why “ban the box” doesn’t work for employers or employees

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Listen this clip from Ear Hustle (a podcast about “the daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from th...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

There isn’t a “magic number” of racial or ethnic insults an employee must prove to establish a hostile work environment

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Jamie Ortiz (of Puerto Rican descent) worked for the Broward County, Florida, School Board in various capacities for nearly 20 years, incl...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

There’s no such thing as “reverse” discrimination—it’s all just discrimination

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According to the New York Post , a Caucasian 20-year veteran attorney for the Legal Aid Society is suing her former employer for race dis...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

What’s a hostile work environment? You’ll know it when you see it.

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“I know it when I see it.” These are the famous words of Justice Potter Stewart defining legal obscenity in his concurring opinion in Jaco...
Monday, April 29, 2019

I REALLY thought people knew better not to advertise jobs “for whites”

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Cynet Systems, an IT and engineering staffing company, had a viral mess on its hands over the weekend, after it posted a job that asked fo...
Monday, March 4, 2019

Harassment need not be "hellish" to be actionable

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Gates v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago (7th Cir. 2/20/19) asks a question that we see time and again in harassment cases—how b...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

How many n-bombs does it take to create a hostile work environment?

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Smelter v. Southern Home Care Services (11th Cir. 9/24/18) answers the question, "How many n-bombs does it take to create an unlawfu...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Despite what one court held, workplace discrimination laws DO protect employees from non-employees

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Pop quiz: Can an employer ignore harassment or other discriminatory behavior directed at employees by non-employees? If your answer is &q...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Netflix demonstrates it has zero-tolerance for the N-word

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Netflix has fired one of its top executives for his use of the "n-word" at work.   According to The Hollywood Reporter , sour...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Who is Otis Burke?

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By now you’ve almost certainly heard about ABC’s cancellation of Roseanne , after Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett,...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Hair discrimination; not a thing

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Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Tattoos at work: more acceptance, yet still some legal risk

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By ABC TV [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I am not a tattoo person. Yet, a whole lot of people are. And the numbers are increas...
Monday, February 12, 2018

What does it mean to be religious?

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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about religion. Or, rather, what it means to be religious. I am not religious. Or at least not in the o...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Amid all of the sexual harassment concerns, let us not forget that other types of harassment exist

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So much of the news lately has focused on sexual harassment, that it’s easy for one to forget that other types of harassment also exist. ...