By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
As many of you know, I have recently been viciously attacked, along with the discrimination law firm which I have co-founded, Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, by a former employee, Lisa Brockington.
Ms. Brockington, the person now making these despicable and false allegations against the firm in general and me in [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Jack Tuckner, Esq.
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Krista Errickson has refused to be a mere addition to the ever growing statistics related to pregnancy discrimination at American workplace.
Instead, she has filed a lawsuit against her former employer Faye Wattleton. Ironically, Wattleton represents a non-profit working in the sphere of women’s rights, Center for the Advancement of Women.
Jack Tuckner, who represents [...]
Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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By Samantha Mc Lane
Equal Pay Day is a movement that aims for the benefit of all working women in the United States without exception. However, as incredible as it is that gender inequity still persists in this century, inequity and differences remain between races, national origin and legal status. The statistics say it: Latinas earn [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Samantha Mc Lane
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Today is being observed as Equal Pay Day (the point in 2008 when the average woman’s wages finally catch up with what the average man earned in 2007). As ceremonious as it may sound, its apt to look at the statistics once again with hope and protest.
Women in the US, working full-time, year-round earn [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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The blog entry can be found here.
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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BOB ROSNER for ABC News asks to Keep Detailed Records and Don’t Be Afraid to Make a Scene
Dear WOUNDED: A co-worker says offensive things to me daily. I just don’t know how to shut him up.
ANSWER: Harassment shouldn’t be in anyone’s job description. But before we offer strategies to address harassment, we want to tell [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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How common is weight discrimination? Very, as a recent survey finds:
Amy Norton writes for Reuters Health - Discrimination against the overweight may be about as prevalent as racial discrimination, the results of a survey of U.S. adults suggest.
Using data from a survey of nearly 2,300 Americans, researchers at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut found that [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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‘Learned the degree of pain’ from community
Todd A. Heywood writes for Between The Lines News - Issue 1615
Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C., told BTL last week that he and his organization stood by their decision to support a non-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act bill on the House floor, but [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Very informative, and authoritative. Deborah Kotz writes about Pregnancy, Your Weight, and Your Job on US News
Are you planning to get pregnant in the near future? How would I have responded if my prospective boss had asked me this some 13 years ago during a job interview for a medical journal? I did, in fact, [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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PageOneQ quotes Whoopi Goldberg on pregnant transgender man
“I found them very sweet and naïve,” veteran anchor Barbara Walters says of the Beatie couple, currently expecting a child. “The greatest threat to them,” Walters adds, “is that their marriage could be taken away.”
Thomas Beatie, a transgender man, recently talked with Oprah Winfrey about his pregnancy. A [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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