Olsten Staffing settles disability suit
Melville-based Olsten Staffing Services has agreed pay a deaf job applicant $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination suit in Wisconsin. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
View ArticleEEOC adds transgender to protected list
By Todd Etshman and John Callegari Local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups are heralding a new decision by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to extend employment discrimination...
View ArticleBe sensible when it comes to tattoos, body art
By Rich Meneghello Problem: One day, you wake up and realize something in your office has gotten out of hand. At first, a few years ago, you didn’t think it was that big of a deal when one of your...
View ArticleEEOC turns heat on employers over job bias
It started with allegations of hangman’s nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking company warehouse in Chicago Ridge, Ill. Four years later, the Equal...
View ArticleEEOC puts new focus on severance agreements
For most employers, employee severance agreements are essential tools for ensuring that the end of an employment relationship doesn’t lead to litigation.
View ArticleFeds: LI firm made workers pray, say ‘I love you’
A federal regulator says a Syosset healthcare firm forced employees to join prayer circles, thank God for having jobs and say "I love you" to co-workers and managers.
View ArticleEmployers blast EEOC on background checks
Employers claim federal criminal background check rules are confusing, risky
View ArticlePregnant pause
New guidance regarding discrimination against expectant mothers in the workplace
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