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2017: The Year America Started to Address Its Sexual Harassment Epidemic
January 25th, 2018
Contributor: Michael F. Brady
2017 will be remembered as the year America recognized and started to deal with its sexual harassment epidemic. Every few days bring a new story of women reporting sexual harassment by powerful male bosses. Unfortunately, studies dating to the 1970s…
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Wage Discrimination Based on Race or Gender
September 29th, 2017
Contributor: Michael F. Brady
Employees are supposed to be free from compensation discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, or disability. These rights are protected by the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Ye…
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Women of Wal-Mart Lose - Supreme Court Rules
June 23rd, 2011
The allegations were too vague and the evidence too weak to make a case for common injury, which was essential to include all female employees employed since 1998 in a sweeping sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart. So said the Supreme Court Mo…
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Supreme Court Rules: Employers Can be Held Liable for Unlawful Discrimination under USERRA Using Cat's Paw Theory of Liability
June 9th, 2011
“Cat’s paw” theory is used to describe a situation where in one uses another to accomplish his or her purpose. It is based on a 17th Century French fable, “The Monkey and the Cat,” about a devious monkey persuading an un…
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Workplace Retaliation Protections Extended by Supreme Court
January 25th, 2011
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling was handed down yesterday. Employers can be sued if they retaliate against a relative or close associate of a worker who filed a discrimination claim. Retaliation is when employers punish a worker for complaining abou…
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US Supreme Court to Review Wal-Mart Class Action
December 9th, 2010
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the largest employment lawsuit in United States history should proceed as a class action against the world’s largest retailer. The lawsuit was brought by Betty Dukes, a store greeter…
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