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The HR Digest · 5d

Age Discrimination Lawsuit: EEOC Forced Retirement Case for HR

The EEOC lawsuit highlights age discrimination and forced retirement practices still prevalent in North America. The lawsuit targets a New Jersey nursing home accused of unlawfully terminating a longtime employee due to their age.
Star Tribune on MSN.com · 4d

Minneapolis City Council passes ordinance barring discrimination based on body weight and height

Thursday to expand civil rights protections, barring discrimination against people on the basis of their height, weight, housing status or because they were formerly incarcerated. If the ordinance is signed by Mayor Jacob Frey,
Icon for www.bbc.comBBC · 4d

Age to become part of anti-discrimination laws

The change to the law will come into force within six months Plans to protect islanders from discrimination based on their age have been approved by the States. Protection from discrimination is ...
Icon for www.investopedia.comInvestopedia · 15d

Laws That Protect Employees: What You Need to Know Now

Some of the federal protection laws include the Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as discrimination ... employees based on factors, such as race, gender, national origin, and age.
Icon for www.businessinsider.comBusiness Insider · Sep 23, 2024

How to spot discrimination in mortgage lending, and what you can do about it

wherein a borrower's age or income level impacts one's mortgage process There are other forms, too, that may be less common — things like discrimination based on a borrower's nationality or ...
Icon for mashable.comMashable · Jun 29, 2021

3 women of color sue Uber over gender and race-based wage discrimination

Uber discriminated based on race and gender in compensation ... Where there's sexual harassment, there's probably pay discrimination. Emma Hinchliffe is a business reporter at Mashable.
Bloomberg Law News · 11d

Pennsylvania County Beats Public Defender’s Discrimination Claim

A former assistant public defender for the County of Delaware in Pennsylvania failed to show that the county unlawfully terminated him because of his age, a federal district court said.
Icon for triblive.comTribLIVE.com · 28d

Westmoreland County agrees to settlement in age discrimination lawsuit

Westmoreland County will pay $16,000 to settle a federal age-discrimination lawsuit. The settlement agreement calls for the county to pay $11,000 to Wayne A. Piscar, who sued the county in October ...
Icon for kvia.comKVIA · 26d

Allen Theatres to pay $250,000 in age discrimination settlement

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that Allen Theatres will pay $250,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit.
Icon for www.sacbee.comSacramento Bee · 24d

73-year-old fired over age after 31 years at New Mexico movie theater, feds say

A movie theater chain has settled a federal age discrimination lawsuit filed by ... Allen Theatres Inc. will pay $250,000 to Parrish and other employees affected by a “companywide discriminatory ...