By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN The Wall Street Journal Entrepreneurs focused on growing their businesses are sometimes caught off guard when employees start growing their families. Sendero Business Services LP, a management-consulting firm in Dallas, wasn’t prepared when a manager became pregnant in 2007 and asked what its maternity-leave policy entailed, says co-owner and partner Ruth [...]
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UNIFEM and NCRW to Raise Awareness About Violence Against Women
The US National Committee for UNIFEM and the National Council for Research on Women Join Forces on a National Conference to Promote Efforts Aimed at Ending Violence against Women. The conference is a collaborative initiative between two preeminent organizations working towards ending this global pandemic. The US National Committee for the United Nations Development Fund [...]
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In the chaos of conflict and disaster, women and girls can suffer unspeakable violence, exploitation and abuse. The odds are against them as they struggle to survive and protect themselves and their families. Urge Congressional leaders to support the International Violence Against Women Act and ensure that Congress passes it without delay. This legislation will [...]
Long Island Bar Fires Pregnant Bartender
ABC News reports on Jennifer Paviglianiti’s charges of discrimination with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Bartender in Topless Bar Says She Was Discriminated Against for Being Pregnant By MARY KATHRYN BURKE and BRENNAN MCCORD When Jennifer Paviglianiti, 29, of Centereach, N.Y., discovered she was pregnant, she hoped to wait until the three-month [...]
Markowitz grilled in discrimination suit
YourNabe.com By Thomas Tracy Borough President Marty Markowitz was put on the hot seat Friday when he was grilled for nearly four hours about a discrimination lawsuit filed against him back in 2007. The deposition, which was held in Borough Hall, was the first major hurdle in the suit filed by former Borough President Communications [...]
Defendant Markowitz Deposed in Discrimination Suit
Ryan Thompson reports for Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Marty Markowitz deposition. BOROUGH HALL — Borough President Marty Markowitz’s former speechwriter is suing him for discrimination. And though the lawsuit was filed over two years ago, depositions are finally underway — with Markowtz being deposed on Friday. In the lawsuit filed in Kings County Supreme Court [...]
Brooklyn Borough Chief Is Deposed in Bias Suit
New York Times reports on the suit filed by former Borough President Communications Director Regina Weiss. By DAVID W. CHEN Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is not the only city official who has been forced recently to answer questions about employment discrimination. Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, was deposed on Friday at his offices in [...]
