By Elizabeth Tempio Clement Just 10 months after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed its first systemic lawsuit alleging violations of the … Read more
Why You Need to Make Sure You Don’t Have Bias in Your Hiring Process
Hiring bias is like a crack in the bottom of your business’s boat. If you continue on without ever fixing it, you will ultimately sink. Whether you know … Read more
Study: Candidate Profiling on Social Media Can Lead to Discrimination
Employers who background their job applicants on social media are more likely to discriminate against Muslims, an effect that is even more pronounced in … Read more
Study Shows That Older Workers Face “Subtle Bias” in the Workplace
By Eric B. Meyer Under federal law, the bar is set higher for proving age discrimination, as opposed to other forms of unlawful discrimination based on … Read more
We Need the Young to Help Eliminate Age Discrimination in the Workplace
Discrimination has been with us for a long, long time, based on one characteristic or another that allows one group to identify another as less worthy, … Read more
Employee Claims Age Discrimination, Says He Got “Office Space” Treatment
By Eric B. Meyer If the movie Office Space has taught me anything, it’s to wear 37 pieces of flair to work — do more than the bare minimum … Read more
Why Discrimination Against the Unemployed Is NOT Illegal
By John A. Gallagher How is long- term unemployment” defined? If someone has been unemployed for more than six (6) months, they are considered … Read more
Employment Non-Discrimination Bill: Will It Pass This Time Around?
By Eric B. Meyer “Discrimination is just plain wrong. It is shocking that there is still anywhere in America where it is legal to fire someone for … Read more
Winds of Change Reach Argentina’s Employment Discrimination Laws
By Roland De Monte With the Catholic College of Cardinals’ election of their fellow Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to Pope Francis I, a spotlight has been … Read more
Pennsylvania Moving to Ban Discrimination Against Unemployed
By Eric B. Meyer In 2011, New Jersey passed a law banning discrimination against the unemployed. Will Pennsylvania follow suit in 2013? The ball is … Read more