Diversity Management, News and Updates
In 2005, two Toledo, Ohio, firefighters filed a discrimination suit against the city, saying it failed to take action against gender discrimination they experienced on the job. Fourteen years later, a jury decided one firefighter, but not the other, was discriminated against. Pvt. Judi Imhoff received $150,000 related to gender…
Women lawyers filed a lawsuit in April against the Jones Day law firm, claiming gender discrimination and unequal pay. This week, Jones Day filed a 115-page response. The complaint filed in April alleged a “fraternity culture” at the firm. The seven women who brought the suit said they were…
Corporal Michelle LeBlanc, a 49-year-old Vermont State Police officer, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Public Safety and several of her supervisors because of discrimination against her based on gender, age, complaining openly about the discrimination and being a whistleblower. LeBlanc has been with the force for 20 years…
The Inspector General’s review of the ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals Service showed low percentages of female representation in leadership and promotions, underreporting of discrimination and harassment due to fear of retaliation and men who thought gender equity was “just fine.” The female criminal investigator population represented only 16…
A new analysis of pay data at Google once again demonstrates a gender wage gap at the company. Nearly 1,200 Google staff members in the United States roughly 2 percent of the company’s global workforce reported their salaries and bonuses in an employee-generated spreadsheet. The data, obtained by The New…
The Department of Labor has accused Google of severely discriminating against its female employees by paying them considerably less than their male counterparts, a report from The Guardian reveals. According to the publication, a regional director with the Labor Department stated in court there are “systemic compensation disparities against women…
The following column was written for and initially appeared in the Huffington Post Business Blog. It is reprinted with permission from Huffington Post & EY. By Karyn Twaronite, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP and EY Americas Inclusiveness Officer When New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy missed the season’s first…
By Julissa Catalan Eight-year-old Sunnie Kahle has been asked to leave Timberlake Christian School in Timberlake, Va., not for her poor grades or bad behavior, but because she looks like a boy. According to the letter sent to Carroll and Doris Thompson, Sunnie’s grandparents and adoptive guardians, enrollment in TCS…
By Chris Hoenig The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act needs to be abolished because “women are extremely busy,” according to a new political action committee (PAC) representing women. The comments, made by RedState Women Executive Director Cari Christman on Dallas-Fort Worth ABC affiliate WFAA, came in response to questions about…