More people than ever before are filing — and winning — family responsibilities discrimination lawsuits against their employers. The number of family responsibilities discrimination suits has risen by 269 percent between 2005 and 2015, according to a 2016 report by the Center for WorkLife Law. The idea of one spouse…
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Archived: Trump Creating 'Goldwater Effect'
Many top officials in the Republican Party are getting queasy over their presumptive nominee’s recent remarks regarding the judge presiding over his upcoming Trump University fraud trial, with comparisons being drawn between Trump and the 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. Republicans disavowed Trump’s comments (while still supporting him), which…
Archived: Flint II Lawsuit Follows Plans to Build 5th Power Plant in Black Neighborhood
The practice of environmental racism in Maryland is now reaching the legal system. The state is facing a civil rights lawsuit after approving plans to build a fifth power plant in the unincorporated town of Brandywine, a majority-Black town located in Prince George’s County that already struggles with problems related…
Archived: Anti-Transgender Law Violates Civil Rights Act, Says Justice Department
North Carolina’s new transgender bathroom law violates the Civil Rights Act, the Department of Justice said in a letter to Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday. According to the letter (posted by WRAL), McCrory and the state of North Carolina are “engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against transgender…
Archived: Discrimination Laws Do Not Extend To ‘Unpaid’ Interns
By Moses Frenck Photo by Shutterstock It’s a little known fact that interns in the workplace are not protected from discrimination under the law, and some members of Congress are seeking to change that by extending civil rights protections to unpaid interns who work for federal or state governments or…