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World Cup Champions U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Fights for Pay Equity

Trusaic

” The USWNT filed a lawsuit alleging a Title VII violation against FIFA in March of 2019: a pay discrimination claim rejected by Judge R. Men’s Soccer Team failed to even qualify for the World Cup in 2018, in what was called “ The Worst Loss In The history of U.S. Gary Klausner in May of this year.

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The EEOC has new caregiver discrimination guidance. I’ll sum it up for you in two words.

The Employer Handbook

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shared new guidance for employers to avoid caregiver discrimination issues for employees with caregiver responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. ” There’s even a new short video explaining caregiver discrimination in English and Spanish. Yesterday, the U.S. long COVID).

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Workplace Discrimination: Comparing American and European Workplaces

Eightfold

More than 4 in 10 American workers report feeling discrimination in the workplace. . According to our data, 43 percent of American workers say they have faced discrimination at work. . Workplace discrimination is, unfortunately, not an uncommon occurrence, but it might occur more often in the United States than it does in Europe.

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Court: Shareholders and equity partners cannot sue for discrimination under Title VII.

The Employer Handbook

Among other things, an owner lacks standing to sue for discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , according to this recent Fourth Circuit decision. In 2007, she executed a shareholder agreement and, with it, she purchased 5,000 shares of the law firm. But does she have the standing to sue for discrimination?

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NLRB Restores Employers’ Right to Restrict Company Email Use

HRWatchdog

Purple Communications was a controversial decision that overruled the board’s 2007 Register Guard decision, which confirmed employers’ right to restrict such usage. The Board explained that Purple Communications undervalued employers’ property rights in their IT resources and overstated the importance of those resources to Section 7 activity.

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Disability Discrimination: I Can See Clearly Now, My Job Is Gone

HR Daily Advisor

In 2007, “Demetri” began working at MITRE’s New Jersey location as a midlevel simulation and modeling engineer supporting the U.S. From 2007 to 2010, Demetri received generally favorable reviews. The post Disability Discrimination: I Can See Clearly Now, My Job Is Gone appeared first on HR Daily Advisor. Background.

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Dispute Over Job Requirements Defeats Summary Judgment on Disability Discrimination Claim

HR Daily Advisor

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently permitted a disabled nurse to proceed to trial on her claim that the termination of her employment constituted disability discrimination. Beginning in 2007, Arianna suffered a series of work-related injuries. In March 2007, she injured her left shoulder while repositioning a patient in bed.