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A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that Starbucks illegally attempted to prevent its employees in several Manhattan coffee shops from organizing into a union.  The judge found that Starbucks managers fired three employees or their pro-union stances and talk, did not allow employees to talk about unions, and submitted negative evaluations for employees who […]

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Wal-Mart has decided to settle 63 wage violation law suits over wage violations. It will have to pay as low $352 million or anywhere up to $640 million. Regardless of the amount that Wal-Mart pays, though, it will be largest wage violation suit ever.
Wal-Mart was accused of practicing illegal techniques to get workers […]

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An African-American, female former NASCAR technical inspector recently settled a suit she had against NASCAR for racial discrimination and sexual harassment. She sued NASCAR for $225 million, but the settlement amount is private. The woman says she is happy with the settlement amount. Moreover, neither NASCAR nor the employee had to admit […]

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There have been some recent discrimination cases that found their way to the Supreme Court. In one of the cases, four women took pregnancy leaves from AT&T before 1978. When their pensions were calculated, they did not receive full credit for their leaves. This is because the laws dictating that discrimination for pregnancy is a […]

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Anucha Browne Sanders, former vice president of the New York Knicks was recently awarded $11.6 million in her sexual harassment and wrongful termination case. She alleged that Coach Isiah Thomas created a hostile work environment for her, and that when she reported it, she was fired by Chairman James L. Dolan.
The jury ruled in favor […]

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Publisher Judith Regan was fired from HarperCollins in 2006 for allegedly making anti-Semitic comments. This controversy arose around the time when she was planning to put out two books, including OJ Simpson’s If I Did It.
The wrongful termination lawsuit was settled, and Regan recieved $10.75 million in the case. However, more controversy arose shortly after […]

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Redondo Beach, California — Hollywood Riviera, a carwash company operated by Bruno Scherrer Corp., has reached an agreement with the California Labor Commissioner to pay $450,000 in unpaid wages to sixty workers. This settlement concludes an investigation begun by the Labor Commissioner in October 2006 into the suspected underpayment of carwash employees and the violation […]

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Seattle, Washington – Emily Carleton, an employee of the University of Washington, has filed a sexual harassment suit seeking $500,000 from the university in connection with her claim that Paul Brown, campus housing director and Carleton’s boss, harassed her over a period of seven weeks earlier this year. During that time, Carleton alleges that Brown […]

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The United States Supreme Court is reviewing the case of Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, which pertains to the scope of anti-retaliation provisions in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At issue in the case is whether Vicky Crawford — an employee who did not file a complaint […]

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