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Missouri readers may be interested to know that a 25-year-old African-American woman claims Hooters fired her because she had some of her hair highlighted. She is suing Hooters for workplace discrimination because she alleges the restaurant chain doesn’t impose the same hair color standards on waitresses of other races. The ex-waitress’s complaint to the Maryland Civil Rights Commission alleges that…
Missouri residents may be interested to hear that Goldman Sachs, the banking and investment giant, is being required by a U.S. magistrate judge to turn over documents related to internal gender-bias complaints. This demand is the result of a group lawsuit that alleges gender-based workplace discrimination by the company. The suit states that Goldman Sachs has regularly discriminated against female…
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has replaced the director of the state’s Department of Agriculture amid allegations of workplace harassment. The governor gave no official reason for the Oct. 10 move, but it came a day after another senior employee in the department resigned after sending a letter to colleagues describing an atmosphere of disrespect, hostility, fear and intimidation. The Department…
Missouri readers may be interested in how a Wal-Mart discrimination case has changed the outlook for women and minorities seeking employment equality. Some believe that the June 2011 decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes has undone decades of employment discrimination reform. The 5-4 ruling threw out a lawsuit brought by female employees claiming systematic discrimination that resulted in lower rates of…
IBM and the U.S. Dept. of Justice have settled a suit involving the tech company’s alleged discriminatory posting of employment ads online, which indicated that F-1 and H-1B visa holders were preferred over other candidates. IBM paid $44,400 in civil penalties as a result of the settlement agreement with the U.S. In addition, the company agreed to revise its recruiting…
The recent furor over “American Idol” has brought attention from Missouri fans. Ten former contestants, all African American men, have filed a joint civil action against the show after having been disqualified on the basis of their arrest, not conviction, records. The men have evidence that several non-black contestants who had arrest records were not disqualified. If this is true,…
Missouri residents may be interested in a racial discrimination case involving Bank of America. In accordance with a ruling by the Department of Labor, the bank must pay approximately $2.2 million in restitution for charges of employment discrimination. The restitution will go to 1,147 African-American job seekers whose applications were rejected. Bank of America has also been ordered to hire…
A 29-year-old transgender woman obtained a rare victory when she settled a gender identity discrimination case for $50,000. The woman was fired in 2010 when she informed her boss at a market of her intention to begin gender transitioning from male to female. Since federal discrimination statutes do not specifically forbid gender identity discrimination, the woman claimed sex discrimination under…
Missouri residents may be interested in accounts of numerous recent controversies involving businesses claiming that their religious liberties allow them to refuse to hire or serve members of the LGBT community . For many privately held businesses, what some in the LGBT community call employment discrimination or even bigotry against certain customers is merely an exercise of their right to…
The St. Louis Police Officers Association president, who is also a police sergeant, was recently awarded $620,000 in actual and punitive damages in a reverse racial discrimination suit. The workplace discrimination suit, filed in Jan. 2012, named a variety of defendants, including the police department, the Police Board of Commissioners and the mayor. It was alleged that the man was…