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Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP is a progressive New York City law firm dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace. We represent individuals experiencing all forms of workplace discrimination, specifically those affecting women, including sexual harassment, equal pay, pregnancy discrimination and family and medical leave act violations.

Mockery of Pay Discrimination Laws?

Findlaw columnist Joanna Grossman and Professor of Law (University of Pittsburgh) Deborah Brake analyze the ramifications of the recent Supreme Court decision regarding pay discrimination. How much time is a long enough time for someone to report discrimination? Who decides that, and why? Pertinent questions, incisive arguments. Follows:

Reviving Title VII’s Protection Against Pay Discrimination In [...]

L’Oreal’s In-visible Racism

Its time L’Oreal responded to the questions of blatant racism practiced by the corporate house.
BET has a story, hard to miss.
L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics firm, says its business is a “celebration of diversity” and its famous slogan is “Because you’re worth it.” But is the company referring to White women only?
A [...]

N-Word is Dead. Or is it?

Well, at least so it seems, what with the enthusiasm that prevailed over participants on the “Happy Funeral” of N-Word.

Thousands of Attendees and Onlookers Cheer as the N-Word Gets Buried in ‘Happy Funeral’
By: Michael H. Cottman
DETROIT – The “N-word,” so says the NAACP, is dead.
Thousands of NAACP delegates at the organization’s 98th annual convention [...]

The ‘Class’ Factor in Classrooms

Mary Sanchez reflects on Class paradigm in the racist American public school system.
Class — not just race — is to blame for separate and unequal schools

Now that the Roberts Supreme Court has essentially taken race off the table in the public schools debate, how will reformers go about addressing the inequities that persist in [...]

Poverty, Racism, and President Bush

There is quite a bit of debate about why Julian Bond had to compare Katrina to lynching. Nomorespin blog attacks the thesis, but what was taken out of context was perhaps the larger speech within which it made perfect sense.
Appears like Nomorespin was busy using a spin around the convention news. The normal headline [...]

McDonald’s Continues Anti-Poor Policies

Central Valley Indymedia reports that McDonald’s would not permit a homeless woman to use restroom under the assumption that she was not going to be able to purchase anything.

Sherri Williams was cited by the police yesterday because she tried to use the restroom at McDonald’s at Olive and highway 99 in Fresno. Williams and [...]

Blacks R NotUs : Says Toys R Us

An AP story has exposed the racism of yet another corporate house that projects itself innocent by dealing with children’s imagination.

Lawsuit: Toy R Us Targets Blacks
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
The Toys “R” Us toy store chain singles out black customers in a pattern of race-based stops, searches and wrongful detentions, according to a race discrimination lawsuit [...]

Firefighter wins race and gender discrimination suit

International Herald Tribune reports that a Los Angeles jury has awarded $6.2 million to a firefighter who was harassed by colleagues because she is black and a lesbian.
The harassment included someone mixing urine with her mouthwash, she said. Brenda Lee’s lawsuit against the Los Angeles Fire Department also claimed her superiors made derogatory comments [...]

Employees of color receive low performance ratings, promotions

Karen Rutzick for govexec.com quotes official documents to suggest that disparities in promotions, performance ratings are still based on race in the United States.
Ronald Stroman was hauled before a joint Senate-House hearing in May to explain why black analysts at the Government Accountability Office were receiving lower performance ratings than their white counterparts.
How did [...]