Sentences with phrase «own sex discrimination»

The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

A Fox News radio correspondent filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming she was fired for complaining about sex discrimination, after the U.S. television network encouraged employees to report harassment amid a barrage of legal claims.

It will now be up to states and school districts to interpret whether federal sex discrimination law applies to gender identity.

During recent decades, the federal laws against sex discrimination have made it easier for women to enter the workplace.

Congress passed it to overturn the Supreme Court's 1976 decision that pregnancy discrimination is not sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Is sex discrimination real?

What's more, some states are taking a cue from federal courts and expanding their own sex discrimination laws to cover orientation and identity.

After all, targeted harassment is usually a means of asserting control and defending status on the part of the harasser, to leave victims «afraid, despairing, utterly alone, and complicit,» as Catharine A. MacKinnon wrote in her 1979 book «Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination.»

But the heat was really turned up this summer when the company's former vice president Whitney Wolfe sued Tinder, and parent companies IAC and Match.com, on charges of sexual harassment and sex discrimination.

Since the Pennsylvania case, more plaintiffs have used the federal prohibition on sex discrimination to apply also to sexual orientation, with much success.

The EEOC is using this same reasoning to say that it's illegal sex discrimination to fire a man, but not a woman, for being attracted to men.

In fact, in December 2017 a Virginia district court judge ruled against a female plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against defense contractor BAE Systems, in part, because she «did not take advantage of BAE's harassment reporting procedures of which she was well aware.»

Appropriate caution about dating situations should not be taken to the extreme where it results in a sex discrimination case.

A California jury on Friday cleared venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers on all claims brought by former partner Ellen Pao in a high - profile sex discrimination lawsuit.

The Unruh Act expressly prohibits sex discrimination by business enterprises.

The common refrain is: «We're for religious liberty but...»» not in the prisons, not when it perpetuates sex discrimination, not in the military, not in the schools, not if it conflicts with animal rights, not if it interferes with land development in the West, and on and on.

«I did see myself as kind of a kindergarten teacher in those days, because the judges didn't think sex discrimination existed,» she says in the trailer, describing her advocacy work for women's rights in front of skeptical male judges.

Recent sex discrimination cases resulting in large settlements, in some cases awards of multi-million dollars, to be split with aggressive trial attorneys, are the latest examples of misusing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Is it «sex discrimination» for a health - insurance company to refuse coverage for elective abortions?

The record shows no trace of sex discrimination.

Likewise, if the Saints or NFL have evidence of players or other male employees being warned about, or punished over, inappropriate social media interactions or fraternization, the Saints and NFL would be able to more effectively rebut allegations of sex discrimination.

The bullying claims centred around Jess Varnish who is now suing both British Cycling and UK Sport for sex discrimination, victimisation and unfair dismissal.

The Government's guidance on the Equalities Act should define negative representation of men's / fathers» caretaking in the workplace as sex discrimination.

Following the judgment of the Hockenjos v. Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (21 December 2004), where the lack of financial support for non-resident parents who share care for children was found to be sex discrimination, the Childcare Strategy must address the barriers to sharing caring responsibilities in low - income families, where child poverty is a high risk.

Figures comparing the years before and after the introduction of those fees show a truly staggering 91 % fall in sex discrimination cases and a 46 % fall in pregnancy discrimination cases.

Under Australia's federal Sex Discrimination Act 1984 it is illegal to discriminate against a person either directly or indirectly on the grounds of breastfeeding, according to the Australian Breastfeeding Association.

In Ohio, a breastfeeding mother sued Wal - Mart for sex discrimination and lost.

Although Canadian human rights protection does not explicitly include breastfeeding, a 1989 Supreme Court of Canada decision (Brooks v. Safeway Canada) set the precedent for pregnancy as a condition unique to women and that thus discrimination on the basis of pregnancy is a form of sex discrimination.

This is such a real concern that the Single Equality Act and sex discrimination legislation in the UK protects the right to breastfeed.

The EEOC has been cracking down on the prevalence of unlawful sex discrimination experienced by breastfeeding employees, for needing to breastfeed as referenced in their 1979 and 2014 enforcement guidance:

Young's Supreme Court ruling directly affects SB - 219 in that it makes clear the instances when employers are mandated to provide accommodations and when sex discrimination may be inferred if they don't.

The ACLU notes that this is sex discrimination, even though the trial court held (in perhaps one of the silliest arguments ever made) that Angela's coerced resignation from her job wasn't sex discrimination, since men can technically lactate as well under certain circumstances.

«To say to a woman who's breast - feeding that you can't leave the cockpit to take care of her bodily needs but to allow everyone else to leave to use the bathroom is sex discrimination.»

Harriet then became Legal Officer to Liberty (then the National Council for Civil Liberties) where she took the first cases for women under the then new Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts.

As NCCL Legal Officer Harriet represented Brenda Clarke in a successful landmark Sex Discrimination Act case against her employer, Ely Kinnock, who had discriminated against women part - timers through a redundancy scheme which made part - timers redundant before full - timers.

The key to understanding the success of Moscow's penetration agents in government ministries, the failures to detect them swiftly and the counter - espionage mistakes in handling them lies in sex discrimination rather than class discrimination.

What do you do when you have a bunch of sexist statements attributed to Wal - Mart managers in a fair pay / sex discrimination case?

The San Francisco school district settled a sex discrimination lawsuit involving incoming city schools chancellor Richard Carranza for $ 75,000, but de Blasio said he doesn't buy the allegations against his schools pick.

«As a result of the excessive flexibilities and increased discretion over pay matters given to schools, evidence shows that this has opened the door to increasing sex discrimination in relation to pay and progression.

The evening honored Governor Andrew Cuomo, in recognition of his work on behalf of transgender rights — with the nation's first executive directive interpreting sex discrimination protections to protect trans people -LSB-...]

«The Coalition Government's plans to extend the freedoms of schools will potentially make a bad situation worse by compounding the problem of sex discrimination in access to leadership of schools.

«The research highlights the urgent need to ensure that schools and employers comply with their statutory equalities duties in respect of sex discrimination.

He told cabinet colleagues there was no place for harassment or sex discrimination in Israel's «democratic, Western, liberal state».

Sexual harassment and sex discrimination is rampant.

So things like the tribunal fees have seen a drop off in people taking employers to tribunal for unfair dismissal in regards to sex discrimination, maternity discrimination, race discrimination.

This is fewer staff than the Equal Opportunities Commission — one of three bodies that merged to form the EHRC — employed to tackle sex discrimination alone.

Newly - released statistics show taxpayers paid more than $ 342,000 to settle workplace discrimination disputes at House lawmakers» offices between 2008 and 2012, including nearly $ 175,000 for eight settlements related to sexual harassment and sex discrimination accusations.

A former staffer for Donald Trump fired earlier this month has filed a complaint in Iowa against the mogul's 2016 campaign, accusing it of sex discrimination.

Passing legislation this June that lifts the MMA ban would honor the 40th anniversary of President Nixon signing Title IX — which outlawed sex discrimination in higher education and athletics — into law.