The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a sweeping decision concluding that IBM engaged in systematic age discrimination between 2013 and 2018, when it shed thousands of older workers in the United States. ProPublica reports: The EEOC finding, contained in an Aug. 31 letter to a group of ex-employees, comes more than two years after ProPublica reported that the company…
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Uber Settles Federal Investigation Into Workplace Culture
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: In 2017, a former Uber employee wrote a public essay describing how the ride-hailing company had permitted sexual harassment to fester at the workplace. The revelations led to an outcry over Uber’s toxic culture. Federal authorities and others began investigations into the company. More than 20 employees were later fired…
Vox Sentences: Right to marry, right to work?
Source: https://www.vox.com/vox-sentences/2019/4/22/18511376/sri-lanka-easter-bombings-lgbtq-supreme-court…
The Supreme Court just took up a set of very big cases on LGBTQ rights
Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/22/18510894/supreme-court-gay-transgender-lgbtq-rights…
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Bias Law Covers Gay and Transgender Workers
The justices must decide whether a law that forbids employment discrimination based on sex also bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/politics/supreme-court-gay-transgender-employees.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…