FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Employee Files Lawsuit against Dunkin Donuts for FMLA Retaliation and Sex Discrimination. Jayden had been a store manager for Dunkin Donuts since 2009, and eventually promoted all the way to district manager. Though Jayden was assigned as female at birth, he identified as male, and therefore sought… read more →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Employee Files Lawsuit against Pennsylvania Department of Corrections for Gender Discrimination Rachel started at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in November 2009 as a correctional officer. In July 2015, she received a promotion to sergeant at the Corrections Training Academy as well as a pay raise. After… read more →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Employee Files Lawsuit against Jewish Community Center for Sex Discrimination Kelly started working at the Jewish Community Center as a personal trainer and floor staff in April 2016. A year later, she started to feel sexually harassed by a supervisor when he wiggled a banana at her… read more →
A new guidance released by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission on August 2, 2018, expands the definition of “sex” for the state discrimination laws. While more than 50 municipalities in Pennsylvania had already taken steps to provide anti-discrimination protections to the LGBT community, the state has finally done so itself.… read more →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Employee Files Lawsuit against Jefferson Health for Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Act Violation Shawn began working as a biomedical engineer at Jefferson Health in 1990. Throughout her years at the hospital, she was promoted twice, becoming a clinical engineer III. Shawn managed the department at Magee… read more →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Employee Files Lawsuit against Social Status and Robert Johnson for Sex Discrimination Tashiah joined Social Status as a part-time sale associate in January 2017. She worked Monday through Friday with 3-hour evening shifts and an 8-hour shift on Saturdays. Soon after starting, Tashiah’s shift manager, Robert, began… read more →
Interacting with the employment world as a transgender individual comes with significant challenges, specifically including harassment, discrimination, and termination. Transgender men and women who only wish to make a living and pursue their careers continually deal with transphobia and employment discrimination. More recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) interpreted… read more →
Physicist Discrimination Despite the versatility of physicists in employment, physicists struggle with employment discrimination as well due to gender, race, age, disability, religion, color. Whether in a laboratory or working in a school, physicists offer analytical, mathematical, and critical thinking skills. These men and women are clearly assets to every… read more →
Recognizing obvious discrimination has never been so easy with the excessive amount of information on the many faces of discrimination; however, subtle discrimination continues to make the workplace hellish for certain people. Sometimes individuals are unaware that they are implementing subtle discrimination against other coworkers for their race, gender, disability, age,… read more →
Redesigning the Culture of Architecture: Female Architects Take On Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination Graduating architecture classes have an equal split of men and women, but that’s where the equality ends. As women architects ascend through the ranks of architecture training, more and more slam into the glass ceiling. Many… read more →