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Whatever the corporate euphemism – and the speed with which they change is increasing – these are job cuts no matter the terminology. Some people will be fired. At GM, the company is "rightsizing," hoping to shrink it's salaried workforce by about 7,000. For the...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines race discrimination this way: “treating someone (an employee or applicant) unfavorably because he or she is of a certain race or because of characteristics associated with race.” An associated issue occurs when one’s...
This powerful article published in the New York Times, "Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination", by Jessica Silver-Greenberg shares the stories of women who have been denied light duty during pregnancy and lost their babies. Our firm has...
This is a very interesting piece, No, Affirmative Action Has Not Made Asian-Americans the 'New Jews', by an academic expert, Jerome Karabel, arguing that Ivy League colleges are not unlawfully discriminating against Asian Americans as alleged in a currently pending...
Here's a story from The New York Times, "Meet the Woman in Charge of Building the Best-Selling Pickup Truck in America", by Tiffany Hsu that I thought you'd find interesting: Debbie Manzano will run a plant making Ford's F-150 trucks, but female workers still make up...
In an at-will employment relationship, you can be fired at any time for almost any reason (with several exceptions we discuss in this post). On the other hand, you can also quit when you want without having to give notice in most situations. Both Michigan and Ohio are...
The essence of any community is determining who is in it and what are its governing values and process. Our governing values are our constitution, which includes a suspicion of governmental power, and provides rights to "persons" in the country. These rights are...
In a major hard-fought victory, NachtLaw beat Amazon's motion for summary judgment in a discrimination case for a senior Seattle and Detroit software development manager who was terminated. The Court will grant Amazon's motion in part and deny it in part. In...
This article, "How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women" by Brent Staples, discusses racism among the heroes of women's rights in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is an important story for one reason. We live in a time of destroying...
This article, "Motherhood in the Age of Fear", by Kim Brooks is long overdue. I have previously blogged about the irrational fears of modern American parents, and the harm we do by not letting our kids explore. (See blog post, "Let us teach our children to be curious...