by PC Editorial Staff | Mar 8, 2022 | Civil Rights Act, Discrimination, EEOC, Title VII
Recently, a federal judge found a Detroit food distributor in contempt of court for failing to pay previous payroll tax liability to resolve a sexual discrimination case under the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Previously, the court had ordered...
by PC Editorial Staff | Feb 8, 2022 | Civil Rights Act, EEOC, Title VII
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on February 2nd, 2022, that American Freight Management Company, LLC (the Defendant) will pay $5 million in a federal nationwide sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC. In addition, the...
by Girish Anand | Apr 22, 2019 | Civil Rights Act, DOJ, EEOC, LGBT, Title VII
Circuit courts have split on whether gender identity and sexual orientation are protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as have the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The commission maintains Title...
by Girish Anand | Jan 18, 2019 | Civil Rights Act, EEOC
A jury has awarded $21.5 million* in damages and front and back pay after finding the plaintiff, a former dishwasher and housekeeper for the Conrad Hotel in Miami, suffered religious discrimination. Marie Jean Pierre, a devout member of the Soldiers of Christ Church,...
by Girish Anand | Jul 2, 2018 | Civil Rights Act
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Civil Rights Act, which to this day protects against discrimination in in employment, education and housing; bars racial segregation in all state-sponsored public places such as schools, buses, parks...
by Girish Anand | Mar 13, 2018 | Civil Rights Act, LGBT
In two weeks’ time, two U.S. circuit courts of appeal — the 2nd and the 6th — have ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s provision against discrimination based on sex includes protection for gender identity. The 6th ruled March 7 in favor...
