A former student of Malvern Preparatory School has filed a lawsuit claiming the school was negligent for failing to prevent a swimming coach from sexually harassing him. According to the claim, the harassment continued for more than a year from March of 2014 to May of 2015. The plaintiff in...
According to a recent analysis of executive compensation by Equilar and the Associated Press, wage equality between male and female CEOs is moving in the right direction; however, employment opportunities for female CEOs remain limited. The median compensation for a female CEO has risen 13 percent since 2014 while male...
A group of Muslim employees who worked for Ariens Co., a manufacturing company in Wisconsin that makes snow blowers and lawn tractors, recently filed a religious discrimination and retaliation complaint. According to the complaint, Muslim employees are being subject to employment discrimination and denied their right to religious accommodations at...
A researcher at the University of California Berkeley has found that sexual harassment courses aimed at preventing sexual harassment and sex and gender discrimination may actually provoke a backlash in men, making them less likely to perceive inappropriate behavior and more likely to blame victims. The researcher behind the study,...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a right to sue letter to a former Yale student who claims she was sexually harassed by a renowned professor who subsequently punished her professionally for resisting his advances. Despite complaints other students made at other universities against the Yale ethics professor,...
Lowe’s has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle claims brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that the home improvement retailer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by firing employees who a took medical leaves that extended beyond the company’s maximum leave policy. Per the agreement,...