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Discrimination
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Tattoos At Work
Do people with tattoos get treated differently at work? Should employees with tattoos go out out their way to hide their tattoos while at work? Is having a tattoo a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Know Your Rights Pamphlet for Post-9/11 Era
What Are My Rights? A Post-9/11 Guide for California's Muslim, Sikh, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Communities: The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights has produced a pamphlet on post-9/11 backlash…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Should Public Schools Fire School Teachers Based on Parental Preferences?
Update: Good for the School District!Putting on my education law hat for a moment, I want to discuss a story on 365Gay.com, which reports:The Eagleswood School District will meet Mondayto…
PropertyProf Blog
Craigslist and the FHA
By propertyprof
David Bernstein at the VC has a very interesting post on a suit against Craigslist for violating the anti-discrimination provisions of the FHA. Discrimination in ads for roommates is always…
Labor Law Prof Blog
EEOC Reports 5% Drop in Charges
Discrimination charges filed with U.S. Equal Employment OpportunityCommission (EEOC) against private sector employers declined last yearby 5 percent, the agency reported today as part of its Fiscal Year 2005data. Complete…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top Gay Workplaces
From PlanSponsor.com:The Washington, DC-based Human Rights CampaignFoundation has released a new online ranking of the employers mostsupportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) employeesand consumers.The Best Places to Work…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Boeing Victorious in Class Action Disparare Impact Case
From the AP (through FindLaw), this article:Weeks after a federal jury ruled that Boeing Co. did notdiscriminate against thousands of black employees in promotions, thejudge in the case handed the airplane…
Labor Law Prof Blog
EEOC Solicits Award Nominations
The EEOC is soliciting nominations for its 2006 "Freedom to Compete" Award. This award "recognizes excellence in the implementation of specific equalemployment opportunity practices that the Commission believes can beemulated…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Kotkin on Invisible Discrimination
Posted on the SSRN Labor and Employment Law Abstracts today:Minna J. Kotkin, Invisible Settlements, Invisible Discrimination, 84 N.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2006).From the abstract:Invisibility defeats the intent of thediscrimination statutes,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Indianapolis Becomes Latest City to Ban Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Indianapolis, Indiana became the latest city in the United States to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The ban not only applies to employment, but…