When it filed suit earlier this year, the EEOC issued a press release which stated: “Once again, an employer involved in the health care field has impermissibly allowed fear and
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Staffing Agencies
70-Year Old Attorney Put On “Do Not Use” List By Staffing Firm: EEOC Suit
Someone failed to advise a NY legal staffing company about a little thing known as the ADEA – the Age Discrimination In Employment Act.
Apparently it “rejected a 70-year-old attorney…
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Anyone Can Sue In This Country
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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Health Care Staffing Company Sued By EEOC For Refusing To Hire HIV-Positive Candidate
The headline above says it all – need we repeat out “low hanging fruit” or “fish in a barrel” mantras? Or should we let the EEOC’s press release do…
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Senor Frog Agrees To Pay $350,000 For Groping Employees
On November 5, 2012, we reported on an EEOC lawsuit against Señor Frog’s, a chain of Mexican-themed restaurants, as well as its staffing company, for “rampant sexual harassment…
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Staffing Firm To Pay Whopping $920,000 To Settle EEOC Charges
The EEOC had six charges filed with it between 2007 and 2009 alleging that the San Diego staffing firm Huyssen Inc., doing business as Sedona Group, engaged in a pattern…
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Staffing Agency To Pay $100,000 To Settle For Firing Employee With Prosthetic Leg Because It “Did Not Want Anyone Bumping Into Her”
Readers may recall that on December 4, 2012 we reported that a staffing agency, Staffmark, sent a woman with a prosthetic leg to work as a temporary SONY employee in…
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EEOC Sues Staffing Agency For Retaliating Against Employee
The EEOC just announced that it has sued a Georgia staffing and professional recruitment company for retaliating against an employee who had filed an unspecified EEOC discrimination charge. Noteworthy is …
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Temp Agency Sued For Firing Employee With Prosthetic Leg Because They “Did Not Want Anyone Bumping Into Her”
A staffing agency, Staffmark, sent a woman with a prosthetic leg to work as a temporary SONY employee in an Illinois facility which packages and/or inspects Sony products that are…
EEOC Commissioner Lipnic Addresses the American Staffing Association’s Staffing Law Conference
I just returned from Washington D.C., having attended last week’s 2012 Staffing Law Conference of the American Staffing Association.
Besides the welcome opportunity to hear speakers from across the…