Tag: Workplace discrimination

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Exxon Mobil sued over 5 nooses displayed at Louisiana facility

03/06/2023
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Exxon Mobil Corp. violated federal law for failing to take sufficient action as five hangman’s nooses were displayed at its facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the U.S. government said in a lawsuit. A...

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Black women are gaining ground in the labor market but still face unique barriers

02/04/2023
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An employee works at the BMW manufacturing plant in Greer, South Carolina, October 19, 2022. Bob Strong | Reuters A decrease in the unemployment rate of Black women is heartening, but labor experts wa...

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Elon Musk says he can’t get fair trial in California in Tesla shareholder suit, wants Texas

01/08/2023
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WASHINGTON — Elon Musk has urged a federal judge to shift a trial in a shareholder lawsuit out of San Francisco because he says negative local media coverage has biased potential jurors against him. I...

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From Disney to Target, Boeing, CEO retirements are a thing of the past

12/11/2022
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SUN VALLEY, ID – JULY 13: (L-R) Bob Iger, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, Dick Costolo, former chief executive officer of Twitter, Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman o...

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Goldman paid $12 million to settle sexism complaint, Bloomberg reports

11/15/2022
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Goldman Sachs logo displayed on a smartphone. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images Goldman Sachs paid more than $12 million to a former female partner to settle claims that senior...

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Republicans claim Google is sending their fundraising emails to Gmail users’ spam folders

10/30/2022
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of November’s midterm elec...

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Must be ‘fit and active’ or ‘digital native’: how ageist language keeps older workers out

09/04/2022
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Ageism is wrong. Age discrimination is illegal. But if you are or have been an older job seeker and you suspect your age is a barrier to getting job offers, your instincts aren’t wrong. “Ageism is a r...

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Retirees want to go back to work — but they’re worried about this

09/02/2022
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While more than three in 10 U.S. retirees say they would be motivated to rejoin the workforce if inflation continued to eat into their savings, 43% of retirees see their age as a barrier to getting a ...

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Coalition aims to end gender pay gap for pre-IPO companies by 2027

03/15/2022
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A jabot collar is seen placed on the Fearless Girl statue outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in honor of recently passed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bad...

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IBM executives call older workers ‘dinobabies,’ discrimination lawsuit alleges

02/16/2022
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Executives at IBM IBM, -0.16% referred to the company’s older workers as “dinobabies” in internal email correspondence, according to a new age-discrimination lawsuit. These emails were submitted as ev...

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Can Microsoft acquisition cure Activision Blizzard’s toxic workplace?

01/23/2022
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Besides concerns about antitrust scrutiny and a record $68.7 billion price tag, Microsoft Corp.’s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. also raises a key question: How will it deal with the ...