The EEOC has recently filed an action in the Western District of Wisconsin entitled EEOC v. Baumann Farms, LLP alleging that the employer has an “English-only policy that discriminates against
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Earlier this month, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a proposal to update its guidance on employment discrimination based on national origin. The proposal, which marks the EEOC’s
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Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Martin Burns, an associate in the Roseland office:
According to a recently filed lawsuit, Hajra v Wawa, by a former employee
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The EEOC has announced that it has sued a West Virginia mining company for national origin discrimination. The company allegedly knew that its supervisory and non-supervisory personnel were regularly subjecting
Continue Reading Harassing Ethnic Comments To Employee Of Polish Ancestry Incurs Wrath Of EEOC
A North Carolina AutoZone store was just sued by the EEOC for national origin discrimination and harassment.
According to the EEOC, the Hispanic employee was forced to resign, after months
Continue Reading Outrageous Slurs Against Hispanic Employee Impels EEOC To Sue
Incidents of harassment against Muslim and Arab employees have been on the rise, with virulent and racist epithets and slurs at the core.
On October 2, 2013 we reported on
Continue Reading “Anti-Harassment At The Heart Of EEOC’s Mission”
I just read a fascinating article by Derek Mong in Asian Fortune, which calls itself “an English language newspaper for Asian American professionals in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.”
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The EEOC just announced the commencement of a new national origin lawsuit against a Green Bay manufacturer for allegedly firing Hmong and Hispanic employees “based on 10-minute observations that marked
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Here is what failure to make out a prima facie case looks like in its starkest terms
A Muslim software architect in Washington State sued his former staffing company employer
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Three Bengali-speaking Muslim restaurant kitchen employees in Toronto who were mocked and reprimanded for speaking Bengali, subjected to comments about “cleaning Bengali sh-t from the kitchen,” forced to eat pork
Continue Reading No “Cleaning Bengali Sh-t From The Kitchen”: Ontario Tribunal Finds For Bengali Workers