Sentences with phrase «sex discrimination cases»

Sex discrimination cases, meanwhile, almost doubled — rising from 14,250 to 28,153 year on year.

The claims of the Law Society appear to be supported by recent statistics published by the MOJ, which show that there has been more than a two - thirds drop in claims to tribunals and a staggering 87 % decrease in sex discrimination cases.

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.

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.

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

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

Most recently, she successfully represented the plaintiff in the Indian Act sex discrimination case Gehl v. Canada (Attorney General).

Monica also notes Morris» coverage of the Wal - Mart sex discrimination case and new EDD tech tools for plaintiffs and attorneys.

«With the recent ruling awarding 30 million dollars to saleswoman Laura Zubulake, who won her sex discrimination case against UBS with the help of subpoenaed e-mail messages, a Pandora's box of issues is emerging regarding work - product privileges in this new age of electronic communications.

Secured jury verdict for municipal employer in sex discrimination case brought by a transgender former employee under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Obtained a $ 365,000 settlement for a former employee who alleged wrongful discharge and retaliatory harassment in a race and sex discrimination case against her former employer and manager.

You might think of combining the internal Title VII sex discrimination case records of Littler Mendelson, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Ogletree Deakins, and Jackson Lewis.

«Find me every e-mail that refers to «Ms. Jones», or to «Barbara», or to «assistant director of payroll» — in a sex discrimination case about Barbara Jones who was assistant director of payroll.

In this edition we look at a recent high profile sex discrimination case against the Met Police, proposals to extend paternity leave to six weeks, the latest in our series on injunctions and the employment law changes that come in tomorrow.

Not exact matches

Machines are «always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip - and - fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case.»

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.»

'' [Machines are] always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip - and - fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case,» Puzder told Business Insider of potential benefits of automation in March.

In two cases against the U.S. Postal Service in 2011, the EEOC ruled that gender stereotyping claims are indeed sex - discrimination claims.

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

Alex litigates and provides advice and counsel on sex harassment and discrimination cases, including pregnancy, disability, race and gender discrimination.

The case of Michelle Poirier versus the BC government is the first case to test the human rights code on workplace policies in relation to breastfeeding women and discrimination on the basis of sex.

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.

A Manhattan federal judge ripped a lewd West Point exercise chant, which compares women to statues being broken by penises, in a recent sex - discrimination case.

The court will also hear an appeal from a Colorado baker with religious objections to same - sex marriage who had lost a discrimination case for refusing to create a cake to celebrate such a union.

With a now former county department head, ex-Social Services Commissioner Dirschberger, facing rape and criminal sex act counts in an Albany case involving a subordinate, members of the Legislature's minority caucus want to know how many harassment or discrimination cases have involved county employees in recent years, how many were settled and whether public dollars were used to fund those settlements.

Puzder told Business Insider in March that he prefers machines to workers because they «never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip - and - fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case.»

«Our case is really about the company itself and whether they were following the laws about sex harassment and sex discrimination, and that's a relatively recent inquiry,» Schneiderman said.

They did not advertise in mainstream science publications where such promotions would contravene the Sex Discrimination Act, and, in any case, most readers are male.

The question assumes, as in the case of a food - standards specialist for the state of Oregon whose job was eliminated amid tensions with her boss, that the worker isn't protected by a union contract or as a member of a group shielded from employment discrimination based on race, sex, or other protected classes.

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up an appeal examining whether Title IX provides the exclusive legal remedy for cases of sex discrimination in public schools.

Sex Discrimination / Sexual Harassment This program will address recent state and federal cases concerning gender discrimination and sexual harassment claims by staffDiscrimination / Sexual Harassment This program will address recent state and federal cases concerning gender discrimination and sexual harassment claims by staffdiscrimination and sexual harassment claims by staff and students.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

The case involved whether a «ministerial exception» to sex discrimination laws applies to a chaplain suing for discrimination.

However, in Case C - 249 / 96 Grant v South - West Trains Ltd [1998] All ER (EC) 193 the ECJ ruled that EU legislation combating sex discrimination did not cover discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.

In the well - known case of Canada v Buffett, however, Buffett successfully argued that the failure of the Canadian Forces to pay for in intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for male service members while paying for in vitro infertilization (IVF) for female service members constituted discrimination on the basis of sex and disability.

If the case had been one of sex discrimination, then it would still have been possible to bring a claim under Art 157 TFEU as directly effective Treaty rights are preserved by the Repeal Bill.

There has been a recent case «Snell v Network Rail» which saw a male employee being awarded # 28,321.03 for sex discrimination after his employer offered him only statutory pay during Shared Parental Leave while mothers were given full pay.

The students assume the role of a partner in a firm approached by a friend regarding a possible case of sex discrimination against her former employer.

Importantly, this was the first time that the SCC considered the duty to accommodate in a sex - based discrimination case.

Case: The EAT has held that it is not direct sex discrimination for an employer to offer enhanced maternity pay and fail to pay enhanced shared parental pay in line with this.

In this case «protective» proceedings for unfair dismissal, breach of contract and sex discrimination had been issued in the employment tribunal (ET) and then stayed pending determination of the application for judicial review.

The applicant in the case, Lynn Gehl, and her counsel, argued sex discrimination existed under the Indian Act.

In that case, the Court established that employment discrimination for failure to conform to sex - stereotypes violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Ledbetter case turned on an interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which, the Supreme Court ultimately held, limited someone's recovery in a sex discrimination suit to damages that occurred within 180 days of the initial complaint to the EEOC.

The Court concluded that to make a case of discrimination on the basis of sex or family status related to breastfeeding, proper evidence would be required.

Suing for equity's sake — An Oct. 2008 story that was back in the news and so readers were keen to get further details on the case of a former McCarthy Tétrault LLP partner suing the firm in a sex - discrimination case.

In the mid-1970s Ginsburg stopped using the term sex discrimination to describe her cases.

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On Friday, a Jackson County Circuit Court jury awarded $ 20 million in punitive damages in a case that alleged retaliation, age and sex discrimination against an American Family Insurance sales manager.