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Discrimination
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Sentencing Law and Policy
“Looking Criminal and the Presumption of Dangerousness: Afrocentric Facial Features, Skin Tone, And Criminal Justice”
Main November 28, 2017"Looking Criminal and the Presumption of Dangerousness: Afrocentric Facial Features, Skin Tone, And Criminal Justice"The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Less than 15 Employees = Freedom to Discriminate
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sex, color, religion, race, and national (ethnic) origin. Other statutes prohibit discrimination based on age and disability.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Congress’ Settlement and Awards Fund that Pays Victims of Sexual Harassment
By Tracy Thomas
There's a Little-Known Fund that Goes to Victims of Sexual Harassment on the Hill. You Pay for It. Since 1997, Congress has paid at least $15 million to settle complaints about sexual…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Correctional Officers FEHA Claims are Barred by Res Judicata for Already Adjudicated Workers’ Compensation Cases
The California Court of Appeal recently held that employees’ workers’ compensation decisions barred them from pursuing similar claims under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) based on the doctrine…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Five Key Points to Understanding the Gender Pay Gap
By Tracy Thomas
Five Ways to Win an Argument About the Gender Pay GapThe 80.5 percent wage ratio figure, the most commonly used figure to measure the gender wage gap in the United States, is…
The Right Coast
New research suggests that effort at work is correlated with race – Workplace productivity
GIVEN the long history of making racial slurs about the efforts of some workers, any study casting black and Hispanic men as lazier than whites and Asians is sure to…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
An Immigrant Story: Best Left Untold in Interview Process
Recently, I had the opportunity to see Rags, a new revival now running at the classic Goodspeed Opera House. I don't often do theater reviews on this site, but I give it…
RLUIPA Defense Blog
Additional Eruv Disputes in New Jersey
By Diana Neeves
We recently posted about a lawsuit filed by Bergen Rockland Eruv Association, Inc. (“BREA”) against the Township of Mahwah, New Jersey, regarding a dispute over the expansion of an eruv. …
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Considering Gender Performitivity in Anti-Discrimination Law
By Tracy Thomas
Ido Katri (Toronto), Transgender Intrasectionality: Rethinking Anti-Discrimination Law and Litigation, U. Penn. J. Law & Social Change 20.1This article will puts a gender variant perspective on anti-discrimination law and litigation. It…
Café con Labor
¡Primera plana! Sugerencias de Recursos Humanos sobre cómo poner coto al acoso y a la discriminación
By Ingrid Ponce, Stearns Weaver Miller
View English Version Here Aunque en las últimas semanas varios conocidos ejecutivos, estrellas de cine, funcionarios gubernamentales y otras personas de mucha talla han encarado demandas por acoso sexual (y…