Submitted by Jenniferweil:
From Mik Danger over at the Coffee and Gender blogspot, some of the options available to people who may come across difficulties casting their vote tomorrow: If you’re transgender contact the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund between 6AM and 7PM EST. They will have lawyers staffing their hotline to respond to (Read More)
Submitted by Jenniferweil:
University at Buffalo sociologist Ellen Berrey, Ph.D., and two scholars from Northwestern University, say the excessive emphasis in U.S. law on overt acts of employment discrimination ignores the unintentional bias that permeates workplaces and the organizational practices responsible for much discrimination.Berrey and her (Read More)
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HCL Systems Inc. will pay $92,644 in back wages to seven non-immigrant workers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the company in violation of the H-1B provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The South Plainfield-based company provides information technology services throughout the United States. (Read More)
Submitted by Jenniferweil:
The University of Buffalo reports that another academic article addressing individual vs. organizational responsibility for employment discrimination will be published. Entitled “Divergent Paths: Conflicting Conceptions of Employment Discrimination in Law and the Social Sciences,” by Ellen Berrey, Ph.D., Robert L. Nelson, P (Read More)
Submitted by Jenniferweil:
What information about you can an employer gather?More employers are gathering information on potential employees, as the information-gathering process becomes easier and cheaper. To gather information, employers use internet tools such as search engines, blogs, online forums, social networking sites, photo sharing sites an (Read More)
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Diane Schroer was offered a job as a terrorism research analyst by the Library of Congress in December 2004 -- but she was known as David Schroer at the time. Yet when the decorated Army veteran told her would-be boss that she was about to undergo sex-reassignment surgery, the offer was revoked. Schroer sued, claiming sex d (Read More)
Submitted by Jenniferweil:
With unemployment rising and competition in the workplace increasing, it's tough to get a job – or get ahead – in today's market. More than one in four American adults – 27 percent – say they have encountered employment discrimination, according to a new survey by FindLaw.com, the most popular legal information Web site. Th (Read More)