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Government Sends Message by ‘Super-Sizing’ Employment Bias Cases

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 Employment Opportunity Commission had turned the case into a …

Mississippi Reservist Files Job Bias Claim Against Weather Channel TV

A former on-air forecaster for The Weather Channel is suing the network, claiming it illegally discriminated against her because of her military service. Nicole Mitchell, a meteorologist, says in the suit that her contract was not renewed by the channel …

Employment Bias Complaints Against Private Sector at All-Time High: EEOC

Employment discrimination complaints against private sector employers reached an all-time high in the most recent fiscal year, federal regulators said this week. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said it received a record 99,947 charges of employment discrimination and …

North Carolina Professor Appeals Ruling Over Job Tenure

A professor who says her remarks about a Palestinian film cost her a job at North Carolina State University wants the state Supreme Court to review her case. Lawyers for Terri Ginsberg filed an appeal this month of a ruling …