Garney Construction Company and Georgia Power are being sued by the EEOC after the companies withdrew a job offer previously made to an applicant with controlled epilepsy. Georgia Power’s physical exam excluded people taking the applicant’s epilepsy medication. According to the EEOC’s suit, Garney initially offered a front-end loader job to Bryan Mimmovich at its…
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Officials for Scully and Ryder are under fire after using racially and ethnically insensitive terms as well as treating minorities less favorably and firing them after they filed complaints. Scully Distribution Services and Ryder System Inc., the company which purchased Scully, have been accused of engaging in wide-ranging discrimination, harassment, and retaliation against non-white employees…
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On September 29th, the EEOC filed a suit against Kids R Us LLC, a company which owns and operates childcare facilities in Oklahoma. The suit was filed after an employee was forced to quit and her relatives were fired after she disclosed her pregnancy to the company. According to the EEOC, an employee told the…
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The Department of Labor typically accepts VETS-100/100A filings starting on August 1. This year, however, the Department has encountered a number of technical problems with their electronic submission process which has prevented contractors from submitting their filings. While the Department of Labor has been working diligently to correct these technical problems, they fully understand the…
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Controversy is stirring at the University of California, Berkeley, after a Republican student group decided to hold a bake sale at which the prices were determined by the buyer’s race and sex. The bake sale, intended to highlight the group’s disapproval or race and gender quotas through Affirmative Action, sparked fierce debate on the campus…
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