tagged w/ Employment Discrimination
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Dov Charney's latest act of blatant discrimination ... this time making the case for firing employees because they are what he deems "ugly." See story for more.Dov Charney's latest act of blatant discrimination ... this time making the case... more
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Tell us what you think at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xM8urRS1BE
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Is that Mr. Entertainment? I C U
lol!!!!
Let's get it poppin in Milwaukee!
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A young job applicant ponders whether or not to disclose her significant hearing disability during her job search/application process. A really interesting, insightful read.
Key excerpt: "As I said, I rarely see my hearing loss as a disability, and instead see it as a huge additional dimension to myself.
Unfortunately, I do know it’s not immediately obvious to most people. Terrible visions of mumbling, awkwardly squawking half-wits come to mind when word “deaf” is heard. Do I risk putting that on my resume, while still risking a shallow perception of my abilities? It’s my oldest quandary."A young job applicant ponders whether or not to disclose her significant hearing... more
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Turks are not less then Saddam or Hitler.
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A spike to record levels in pregnancy-discrimination complaints to regulators suggests more women are speaking up about suspected workplace bias.
Pregnancy-bias complaints recorded by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission surged 14% last year to 5,587, up 40% from a decade ago and the biggest annual increase in 13 years.
And that "may be only the tip of the iceberg," an EEOC spokesman says. The agency also received 20,400 pregnancy-bias inquiries at its call center last year, the center's first full year of operation; that doesn't include thousands more walk-ins asking about the same topic at fair-employment offices. An advocacy group, 9to5, National Association of Working Women, also is seeing an increase inA spike to record levels in pregnancy-discrimination complaints to regulators suggests... more
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The Senate is hearing testimony on the issue of the statute of limitations for workers to file wage discrimination law suits against their employers.
This and things like this decision PROVE that the Alito and Roberts nominations were never about Roe v. Wade. The evil twins, Rove and Cheney, with the appointment power of the Idiot-in-Chief, duped the Religious Right again by playing the reasons for these appointmentsclose to the vest.
Even Democrats were fooled into thinking Alito, Roberts and Miers were being put forward in some veiled attempt to solidify Christian Conservatives and to make a run at Roe v. Wade.
However, all the time, it was the evil genius of Rove and Cheney using the Pseudo-Christian, Bush, to set up the court to protect the Fascist state they are still forming. The Senate is hearing testimony on the issue of the statute of limitations for workers... more
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According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London, the United States?with five percent of the world?s population?houses 25 percent of the world?s inmates. Our incarceration rate (714 per 100,000 residents) is almost 40 percent greater than those of our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). Other industrial democracies, even those with significant crime problems of their own, are much less punitive: our incarceration rate is 6.2 times that of Canada, 7.8 times that of France, and 12.3 times that of Japan. We have a corrections sector that employs more Americans than the combined work forces of General Motors, Ford, and Wal-Mart, the three largest corporate employers in the country, and we are spending some $200 billion annually on law enforcement and corrections at all levels of government, a fourfold increase (in constant dollars) over the past quarter century.According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London,... more
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After reading about the effects of ambiguous racism as opposed to overt racism and its effect on the most notoriously polarized groups in this beautiful country of ours...well, it made me think! This country's government has a history of propogating (legalizing even!) this kind of racism (covert) through legislation.
Can you say Jim Crow??? 1877-1965
After reading about the effects of ambiguous racism as opposed to overt racism and its... more
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Another woman has joined the federal governments lawsuit against Bloomberg L.P., the financial services and media company founded by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, accusing the company of discriminating against pregnant employees.
The woman, Monica Prestia, says in the lawsuit that she was hired as an account executive with Bloomberg in 1997 and within two years was promoted to Latin American sales manager for Bloomberg Television. After she had her first child in 2005, she received the worst performance review of her career, her compensation fell, and a supervisor who could not have children of her own was openly hostile to her, the suit claims. The hostility only increased when Ms. Prestia complained to the Human Resources Department, which did not take action, the complaint states.
This is definitely a compelling aspect of Corporate America. What do you think? Another woman has joined the federal governments lawsuit against Bloomberg L.P., the... more
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I was recently let go from my job of 4 years as a corporate recruiter for questioning their hiring practices. I simply asked what our tolerance was with people's conviction records. There was an applicant who'd been convicted of burglary in 1994 (13 years ago). This applicant hadn't been in any trouble since, had a stable work history and wasn't the most eligible candidate according to my boss. He fired me two days after our conversation for misconduct...
I have been looking for work since 06/25/2007, to no avail. I have a degree in accounting, speak Spanish fluently, am computer literate and have over 11 years of administrative experience...very employable, right?
Well today I found out that my own arrest/conviction record will stand in the way of me getting even a temporary assignment. My conviction was for disorderly conduct....no jail time - - just a fine I had to pay and I was made to apologize to the officer I cussed out!
PLEASE comment on this one folks...does this NOT qualify as profiling as it relates to a job? Am I being unreasonable to expect to be able to find work within my field when I am perfectly qualified? (NO FELONIES)
P.S. In the same case I was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. That charge was dismissed. The agency still asked me about it though.
I was recently let go from my job of 4 years as a corporate recruiter for questioning... more
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