Discrimination
Austrian, US Thought Leaders Discuss Tough D&I Issues
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 16:48At the invitation of the Austrian ambassador to the United States, Mercer’s Liz MacGillivray recently joined other European and American thought leaders for a roundtable discussion hosted by the embassy of Austria in Washington, DC. The Austrian delegation led by Beatrice Achaleke, the well-known European diversity activist who organised last year’s World Diversity Leadership Summit in Vienna, included business executives and government officials.
U.S. Agency Heads Alert HR Managers to Focus on Pay Equity and Rights of Veterans/Disabled
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 12:02At last week's National Industrial Liaison Group meeting in Las Vegas, the director of the Office of Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), Patricia Shiu, told the group of over 660 corporate human resources managers that the agency views pay equity as a "family issue" and will be taking a more aggressive enforcement stance on pay practices. OFCCP intends to make examination of contractors' pay systems a routine part of compliance reviews.
Beauty Bias Emerges
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 23:00A new book by law professor Deborah Rhode, The Beauty Bias, discusses appearance-based discrimination and the law. Michigan and six locales have laws against appearance discrimination, and the result has been not a flood of frivolous litigation but a few suits in egregious cases.
Issues Discussed at the 2010 SWARM ILG Conference Held on April 21 to April 23
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 09:08The Southwest and Rocky Mountain (SWARM) Regional Industry Liaison Group held its annual conference in Houston, Texas from April 21 through April 23, 2010. The conference chair was Doug Wilson, a Workforce Opportunity Network member who is retiring from Shell on April 30.
From SWARM Acting OFCCP Director
On Wednesday afternoon, Melissa Speer, acting director of OFCCP’s SWARM region, spoke on the following five areas of OFCCP focus:
Disability and the Working Environment
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 23:00Hailed as a landmark judgment from the House of Lords, an employee suffering from vocal nodules has been awarded the sum of £125,000 from her former employer, SCA Packaging Ltd. The employee, Elizabeth Boyle, brought the case after the company had changed her working environment which could have threatened her voice.
Employee Alleges She Was Fired for Wearing Hijab
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 16:43A Muslim woman, alleging that she was fired from Hollister Co. for wearing the hijab, a religious headscarf, filed suit in San Francisco on February 26th. Hani Khan was let go from the clothing company owned by Abercrombie & Fitch because her hijab violated the company’s “look policy.” The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) who filed the complaint with the woman said that the termination violated Title VII because the employer failed to accommodate her religious beliefs.
Big Lots Settles Latino-on-Black Discrimination Charges
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 00:00On February 18, a U.S. district court judge approved a consent decree involving Big Lots discount stores in which Latino workers were found to have discriminated against and harassed some African-American em
AA Ban Proposed in Utah
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 00:00On February 12, the Utah state Senate proposed a ban on affirmative action.
Court of Appeal Decision in Eweida v British Airways
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 00:00A British Airways check-in worker, Nadia Eweida, who refused to hide her cross necklace at work, lost her case against the airline in the Court of Appeal on 12th February 2010. She is now considering taking her case to the Supreme Court.
DOL Received Nearly $10M in Back Pay in FY2009
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 11:34The OFCCP obtained $9.31 million in back pay for 21,839 workers through 94 financial settlements of discrimination claims against federal contractors in fiscal year 2009.
