Workplace Discrimination

• Worker Crushed To Death By Bulldozer

  Chrissie Cole | November 25, 2008 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN

  A construction worker was run over and crushed to death by a bulldozer at a construction site in northeastern Indiana, on Monday, according to police. The man, 46, of Auburn, was conversing...

• Apollo Group/University of Phoenix Online Settles Discrimination Lawsuit over Mormon Favoritism

  Mike Ferrara | November 05, 2008 4:55 PM | 7 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  In what is being called the largest settlement in the history of religious discrimination lawsuits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Apollo Group Inc. has agreed...

• Retaliation Must Be Taken Seriously By Employers and Employees

  Zev Antell | October 29, 2008 9:37 AM | 1 CommentRichmond, VA

  Most federal laws from which employees derive rights contain what’s called an anti-retaliation provision. Basically, these provisions provide protection of employees who have engaged in a...

• Indiana Construction Worker Killed In Accident

  Chrissie Cole | October 22, 2008 7:22 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN

  Preliminary results from an autopsy show a 41-year-old Fort Wayne man died of blunt-force trauma to the head in a construction accident at a New Haven business. The man, an employee of Advanced...

• Palin E-mails , The Right of Privacy, and The Internet

  Rob McKinney | September 29, 2008 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  A student at the University of Tennessee is alleged to hacked into Governor Palin's emails. It also happens in divorce cases that one spouse will look at private emails as well. Tennessee has...

• Construction Site Safety: ROP's and why you need them.

  Steve Lombardi | September 29, 2008 11:13 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Construction Site Safety – The AP reports on a Kentucky mine worker dying after his bulldozer tipped over when pushing debris over a 180-foot wall an American coal mine. He’s the twentieth coal...

• Whistlblowers awarded $540,000 in punitive damages

  Will Parker | September 20, 2008 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC

  Recently, $540,000 was awarded to three former Texas Southern students who spoke out upon uncovering a financial scandal. The individuals all kicked out of school and temporarily charged with...

• Workers refused earned Compensation by local New York Grocery Store Chain

  Will Parker | September 19, 2008 5:02 PM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC

  A federal judge has ruled that Gristede’s, a New York based grocery shopping store violated federal and state laws by failing to pay overtime to hundreds of lower-level managers at its...

• The National Organization of Women (NOW) Endorses Obama

  Wayne Parsons | September 18, 2008 5:59 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  Kim Gandy, chair of the political action committee for the national Organization of Women (NOW) reports that the organization has endorsed the Obama/Biden ticket because of their support of civil...

• Senate finally acts to protect disabled workers

  Joshua Laws | September 12, 2008 3:27 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  On September 11, 2008 the United States Senate finally passed a new bill to protect disabled employees and put teeth back into the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to the New York...