Archive for the ‘Labor’ Category
Costs of Caregiver Discrimination Increasing for Employers
New Report Says Family Responsibilities Discrimination Cases on the Rise, Cost More
Treating employees less favorably because they have family caregiving obligations can land employers in court and result in significant liability, a new report by the Center for WorkLife Law concludes.
Litigation aimed at bias against U.S. workers who care for children or aging parents has [...]
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 Director Regina Weiss. [...]
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 in December [...]
Posh pair in ’sex harass’
DAREH GREGORIAN reports in NY Post
A wealthy Upper East Side couple harassed their gay house manager, even making him work out of the room where the family’s pig once lived, court papers charge.
In his Manhattan Supreme Court suit, William Gamble says Lisa Maria Falcone, wife of hedge-fund billionaire Philip Falcone, subjected him to homophobic comments [...]
Billionaire hedge funder, wife tossed anti-gay slurs at employee, forced him to live like pig: suit
BY JOSE MARTINEZ
?DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The shapely socialite wife of a billionaire hedge fund titan is accused of piggish barnyard antics in a sex-harassment lawsuit filed by an ex-employee.
Homosexual house manager William Gamble’s suit charges that he was subjected to unwanted advances from pet pig-owning Lisa Maria Falcone, who is married to the man listed as [...]
Working Without Laws: Exploitation of the Oppressed in New York City
By Michelle Kornblit
The National Employment Law Project recently released Working Without Laws, a survey of employment and labor law violations in New York City. This report exposes the reality that America’s labor and employment laws are failing to protect significant numbers of individuals in New York City. Many workers are paid less than the minimum [...]
NYC Purposely Discriminated Against Blacks
In what turns out to be one of the most discriminatory patterns, a process that has subjected African-Americans to series of disturbing disadvantages, a federal judge has ruled against one of New York City’s legacies.
New York Times reports, that according to judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis, New York City “intentionally discriminated against black applicants to the [...]
Blog Talk Radio: Jack Tuckner on Gender Discrimination
From Blog Talk Radio:
Faten Abdallah interviews Jack Tuckner, leading civil rights trial attorney, and the co-founding partner of Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, a NYC-based law firm dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace.
Lucy Parsons :: Revolutionary Feminist
By Saswat Pattanayak
No legal case in American history has been more cited than The Scottsboro Trial. Nine young African American men, aged 13 and up, were jailed in Scottsboro, Alabama to await trial over an accusation that they had raped two white women on a train in the Spring of 1931.
The nature of [...]