The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
DISCRIMINATION ON the grounds of age was the most common complaint among those who sought the help of the Equality Authority under the Employment Equality Acts last year.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Human Rights Watch (New York, July 23, 2008) The decision by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) granting consultative status to two groups that work on sexual orientation and gender identity is a ...
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This particular case turns on its facts. ICI have a contractual enhanced redundancy scheme. The scheme expressly provides the following: (1) An employee of up to the age of 35 is paid 58.33% of relevant pay. (2) An employee aged 40 receives 97.22% of relevant pay. (3) An employee aged 45 receives 136.11% of relevant pay. (4) Employees aged [...]
YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Monkey News! This injustice will not stand! A Springfield Missouri woman is suing the local health department and businesses such as Wal-Mart for discriminating against her 10-year-old bonnet macaque monkey. Debby Rose insists that her monkey -- whose name is...
Letchworth Girls' Rugby (Free subscription) | yesterday
Big headlines (well, big for women's sport) yesterday about a new " Commission on the Future of Women’s Sport ", to be chaired by Dame Tanni Grey-Thomson and including Dame Kelly Holmes, Heather Rabbatts ( deputy chair of Millwall football club ), and Ed Smith ( journalist and former cricketer ). Building on a series of reports from the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation’s (WSFF) highlighting the...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Refused a request from Quebec liquor regulators to stop playing the rap and hip-hop music they say attracts criminal gang members
Chronicle.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A federal appeals court ruled that Colorado's higher-education coordinating board had discriminated against Colorado Christian University by denying it state funds for student aid on the grounds that it was "pervasively sectarian."
Strategic HR Lawyer (Free subscription) | yesterday
The EEOC issued revised guidance on religious discrimination . Now available is a new revised chapter of its compliance manual - available here: EEOC Compliance Manual Section 12 - Religious Discrimination Among the subjects included in the new section are: Coverage issues, including the definition of “religion” and “sincerely held,” Disparate treatment analysis of employment decisions based on religion,...
Ynet News (Free subscription) | yesterday
JDC study finds most immigrants from former Soviet Union would like to be seen as Israeli but feel they are not, even though motivation to enlist in IDF is high among their sector
Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Discrimination is evident in distribution of aid, with many victims of Cyclone Nargis still not getting adequate relief material being disbursed by international aid groups including the United Nation...
Blog from the Capital (Free subscription) | yesterday
The arm of the government that investigates employment discrimination claims has updated its guidance for religious diversity in the work place. Thanks to Religion Clause for directing me to this Business Week story with the news. Last year, there were...
Melissa Rogers (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Associated Press reports that the EEOC released a new guidance document on religious discrimination in the workplace yesterday. Here's a snippet from the relevant EEOC press release: The [document] includes a comprehensive review of the relevant provisions of Title...
Sequence Inc. FRAUDfiles Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This morning someone sent me a link to this article on the mythical discrimination against women via corporate pay, thinking I’d be outraged. Except I agree with Steve Chapman: There’s no evidence supporting that claim, but it sure sounds great to say women are paid less for the same jobs. I ticked off some of my [...]
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Project on Government Oversight yesterday made available a July 13 Department of Defense Inspector General's Report ( full text ) on the case of Army employee David Tenenbaum. In a series of events beginning in 1997, Tenenbaum, an Orthodox Jew, lost his access to classified information and had his security clearance revoked on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations that he was spying for the...
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former Milwaukee Police Chief Nan Hegerty followed in the tradition of another Milwaukee police chief and filed a discrimination lawsuit when she was replaced. When Arthur Jones cried racial discrimination and sued the city, his two suits were dismissed. History is repeating itself. Like Jones, Hegerty's suit has met the same fate. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel : State officials investigating...
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news rage uk | 20/05/2008
Every time I hear about terrible things that happen in Africa I probably naively think to myself that at least South Africa is sorted out now. At least Apartheid is over and the power has shifted back to the blacks where it belongs without too much bloodshed or economical disruption like in Zimbabwe. In fact things in South Africa have started to look very positive lately. I presume they are dealing...
