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How do we remedy system-wide workplace discrimination? « Update on Employment Law

Submitted by Jenniferweil

Nov 05, 2008

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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, Ph.D., and Laura Beth Nielson, Ph.D., the article will be published in Annual Review of Law and Social Science in December.

In an earlier post, “How the lack of fair pay affects us all,” I reported on an academic article entitled (in part) “Insular Individualism,” making the case that courts have been trending toward blaming an individual or a group for employment discrimination while keeping the employer and its work environment safe from blame.

Similarly, “Divergent Paths” recognizes that the U.S. legal system places blame for employment discrimination on indivi Read the full article

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