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Showing posts with label race discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race discrimination. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

A textbook example of FAFO

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When a judge or jury finds your client dishonest, they've decided your fate. If that dishonesty involves lying to the court, your client...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

"DEI hire" is the new N-word.

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After President Biden dropped out of the 2024 campaign and elevated his Vice President, Kamala Harris, as the presumptive Democratic nominee...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

What is "implicit bias" and how to combat it in your business

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Dwight Jackson, a Black man, claims that the Shinola Hotel denied him a job interview because of his race. He knows this, he says, because ...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Should jury verdict forms in discrimination cases include the McDonnell Douglas factors?

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Jury trials are often won or lost based on the instructions and verdict forms the court provides the jury. Jury instructions outline the leg...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

This should constitute a racially hostile work environment; the court says it didn't

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15 different Black employees complain that their health-care employer maintains a racially hostile work environment. The allegations include...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Does DEI training create a hostile work environment?

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"You can't force me to sit through DEI training! I'm White. It creates a racially hostile work environment." That's wh...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

“DEI” is not a 4-letter word

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"DEI" is not a 4-letter word … no matter what some people want you to believe. Companies such as Sherwin-Williams are scrapping th...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

A DEI smackdown

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It's a DEI heavyweight battle of epic proportions that played out of X over the past week. In the blue corner, hailing from Big D, the o...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

DEI programs continue to be a lawsuit target

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Major League Baseball. NASCAR. Starbucks. McDonald’s. Morgan Stanley, American, United and Southwest Airlines. America First Legal, a conser...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Despite what SCOTUS said about collegiate affirmative action, corporate DEI efforts are still legal

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Last week, a federal court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a conservative shareholder against Starbucks challenging the company's div...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Managing an overly sensitive employee

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Floyd Sesson, a Black UPS parts mechanic, saw race discrimination in every turn within his workplace. When UPS changed its policy to prohibi...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Uber suspends DEI exec over “Don’t Call Me Karen” events

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Uber has suspended its longtime head of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Bo Young Lee, after Black and Hispanic employees complained that a...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

When you offer a reason for something, you better be really, really sure it’s correct

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It is with great sadness that we announce that the Founders Detroit Taproom will be permanently closing its doors today. Unfortunately, our ...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

What does an employer have to do to lose $366 million?!

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$366 million dollars. That's how much a jury awarded Jennifer Harris, a Black sales manager targeted and then fired by FedEx after she ...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Dr. King’s struggle has not ended

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by t...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Paper plant settles case of egregious racial harassment with EEOC for $385,000

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Packaging Corporation of America has agreed to pay the EEOC $385,000 to settle the racial harassment claims of two African American employe...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Would you fire this employee?

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Over the weekend, I asked a simple question on LinkedIn : "Would you fire this employee?" The employee in question took to LinkedI...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Accountability starts at the top, even for the NFL

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NFL disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson has suspended Deshaun Watson for six games for his violation of the league's personal conduct ...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Court dismisses employees’ race discrimination claims against Whole Foods based on prohibition of BLM masks

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A group of Black and non-Black Whole Foods employees claimed that their employer unlawfully discriminated against them because of their race...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Court upholds termination of employee for off-duty Facebook posts critical of Black Lives Matter

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"Black lives" matter causes segregation. Have you ever hear[d] of "white lives" matter or "[J]ewish" lives m...