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  • Waiting for Justice

    Investigation into an EEOC complaint that languished and a defendant who not only got away, but then made money off of the federal goverment. The story focused on a religious discrimination case and a fine that was never paid.

    Tags: Religious Discrimination; EEOC

    By Deborah Weiner; Charles Cochran; Howard Melnick; Joyce Karp; Augusta Brennan-Jones

    WBAL-TV (Baltimore)

    2011

  • Changes eyed for federal anti-bias system. EEOC riding herd on agencies. Battling delay, dismissals in bias cases.

    This article talks about people's problems and complaints about the EEOC (equal opportunity employment commission).

    Tags: EEOC; equal opportunity employment commission; employment; jobs; complaints; courts; law; justice; lawyers

    By Karen Alexander

    Legal Times

    1999

  • Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: Women vs. Wall Street

    Antilla documents the history of sexual harassment and discrimination in the brokerage industry over the past two decades. The book follows the story of Pamela K. Martens, who along with her coplaintiffs in Martens et al vs. Smith Barney, et al, went public with shocking allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

    Tags: BOOK; securities business; Wall Street; sexual harassment; sexual discrimination; EEOC; Olde Discount Corporation; Martens et al vs. Smith Barney; Pamela K. Martens; BOOK PAGES-342

    By Susan Antilla

    Bloomberg Markets (Princeton, N.J.)

    2002

  • The Secret Service, In Black and White

    Perl digs into allegations that the U.S. Secret Service discriminated against black agents in considering them for promotions, and tolerated an atmosphere of racial harassment in its offices. Secret Service veteran Ray Moore and nine other black agents filed a race discrimination suit in U.S. District Court in May 2000. Thirty-eight current and former agents who were black made sworn statements alleging that the Secret Service had discriminatory practices. "The heart of the current case hinges on numbers: Veteran black special agents claim that while increased recruiting has expanded their ranks to 10 percent, a 'glass ceiling' keeps most of them from being promoted to management, whose ranks are only 4.2 percent black." The agents also claim that the service allows a culture of racial intolerance. "The worst example, they allege, is that about a dozen white agents were never disciplined for attending a notoriously racist 'Good Ol' Boys Roundup,' and alcohol-fueled law enforcement gathering held annually in Tennessee. The event regularly featured obscene and racist skits and the hanging of black effigies."

    Tags: Ray Moore; U.S. Secret Service; Black Agents of the Secret Service; discrimination; lawsuit; EEOC; racism; job promotions; John Relman

    By Peter Perl

    Washington Post Magazine

    2001

  • Help Wanted

    NBC News Dateline reports about "age discrimination in the workplace. We spent approximately 2 months sending 2 women, one younger, one older, on a series of job interviews to see how they would be treated when applying for retail jobs. In specific, would the older woman have a more difficult time getting a job? .... our story was able to shed light on the subtle and not so subtle signs of how - many times - a younger applicant has a better chance for getting a job compared to an older applicant..."

    Tags: TAPE Transcript EEOC equal opportunity employment

    By Richard Buchanan;Lea Thompson;Neal Shapiro;Alan Maraynes;Sam Singal;John Armand

    NBC News Dateline

    1999

  • 'Cash' Pensions Trigger Protest of New Allies

    The Wall Street Journal reports that "hundreds of blue-chip companies, including AT&T Corp., IBM and Bell Atlantic were converting their traditional plans to so-called "portable" pensions known as "cash balance plans." While the companies claimed this was being done to modernize the plans and make them suitable for mobile workers, the coverage exposed how companies were converting the pension plans to save money. Pension benefits for older, long-service employees were being cut by 30% to 50%.."

    Tags: CAR retirement SEC IRS AARP; GAO; 10K; SmithKline Beecham Pension Rights Center EEOC

    By Ellen Schultz

    Wall Street Journal (New York)

    1999

  • No title (id: 13426)

    The Progressive investigates the persistence of sexual harassment for women performing in blue-collar industry jobs. In a class action suit against Mitsubishi women workers complained of everything from groping, crude graffiti and derogatory epithets to male coworkers masturbating while watching female workers. Union response and support of women in blue-collar jobs has been inadequate. (August 1996)

    Tags: Colatosti Misrepresented Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) AFL-CIO 3 pgs.

    By None

    Progressive Magazine

    1996

  • The Lame Game

    The American Spectator reports that "Americans without disabilities have been the first to exploit the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Is that any surprise?"

    Tags: ADA President Bush accomodations vague standards EEOC Justice Department

    By James Bovard

    American Spectator

    1995

  • Whose Business is it anyway?

    The Kansas City (MO) Business Journal series examines the issue of federal regulation of business, focusing on the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The series documents how the cost of many regulations far exceeds their benefits, the unrealistic risk assessments that the EPA relies on, the arbitrary nature of OSHA's enforcement actions and the effectiveness of workplace discrimination rules that fall under the EEOC, November - December, 1994.

    Tags: Margolies Menninger

    By Bonar Menninger and Dan Margolies

    Business Journal (Kansas City, Mo.)

    1994

  • No title (id: 9714)

    The Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.) reveals that Publix Super Markets, Inc., one of the nation's largest employers, is riddled with discriminatory policies, particularly in upper management's ranks, August 1, 1993.

    Tags: FL Peltier EEOC 9 pages

    By None

    Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.)

    1993