Today the DOL issued this press release with the following title: Federal contractor Caviness Beef Packers agrees to pay $600,000 to applicants to resolve allegations of hiring discrimination What I would like to call attention to is the secondary headline: 746 applicants in Amarillo and Hereford, Texas, affected I am doing this is to illustrate…
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On September 27, 2011, the EEOC and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. signed a National Universal Agreement to Mediate to streamline the handling of employment discrimination claims. This agreement allows the organizations to informally resolve any workplace issues through alternative dispute resolution rather than the formal EEOC investigation process. There are over 200 national…
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A round-table of disability advocates presented their case for the integration of people with disabilities to a U.S. Senate committee. The advocates argued that a policy should be written to help people with developmental and intellectual disabilities transition into regular workplaces, rather than pigeonholing them into very specific, sheltered professional roles. On September 15, the…
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$1.6 million in damages has been awarded to a female neurosurgeon who claimed hostile work environment and retaliation against a male physician and Massachusetts hospital Brigham & Women’s. A female neurosurgeon, Sangun Tuli, brought claims against her employers and her supervisor, Dr. Arthur Day, after a yearly review of her medical credentials resulted in a…
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Garney Construction Company and Georgia Power are being sued by the EEOC after the companies withdrew a job offer previously made to an applicant with controlled epilepsy. Georgia Power’s physical exam excluded people taking the applicant’s epilepsy medication. According to the EEOC’s suit, Garney initially offered a front-end loader job to Bryan Mimmovich at its…
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