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A former Google employee continues her three-year battle with the tech giant over allegations of pregnancy discrimination as her lawsuit against the company is slated to go to court in December. The story of Chelsey Glasson highlights the challenges women face when...
Recent accusations of sexual harassment against a former FBI field boss in upstate New York, once again, bring this issue into the spotlight. It is an issue that has hovered over every generation of women in the workplace. And it seems that the only way the predators...
A trio of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers – all of them Black – filed a federal lawsuit recently against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security alleging a hostile work environment in which they observed the mistreatment of Black drivers at the U.S....
LGBTQ Americans will gain further protections as U.S. lawmakers take additional steps to stamp out discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Once again, U.S. Congress is giving serious consideration to revising the 1964 Civil Rights Act,...
The movement to stamp out workplace discrimination over the style of a person’s hair has begun in Michigan. In a historic move, Ingham County – where the state capital of Lansing is located – passed an ordinance on March 23, prohibiting hair discrimination against...
As recent events have shown, bias incidents directed at the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community and people of Asian descent have been increasing. This has been a trend since at least the advent of the coronavirus pandemic. The AAPI community and...
When you are fresh out of college, you are excited to see where your career will take you. You may be willing to put in long hours and do some grunt work to rise up to a higher-level position at your company. Maybe you have a goal of being a manager before you are 30....
Discrimination based on national origin includes some aspects of race discrimination, but it focuses on the person’s country of origin. In the United States, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits national origin discrimination in many aspects of...
Unemployment has soared during the coronavirus pandemic for all age groups, but none faster than for workers 55 and older. The Schwartz Centre for Economic Policy Analysis says by January 2021, 3 million older Americans lost their jobs due to the pandemic. During the...
In single-gender-dominated fields, discrimination can take on forms that people are unfamiliar with. The first step in ending discriminatory practices that create a hostile working environment is to identify them in the first place. The damage of gendered workspaces...