Archive for March 25, 2019

Last week, two JetBlue flight attendants sued their employer in a U.S. District Court in New York. They accused two JetBlue pilots of drugging and raping them during a flight layover. Furthermore, the lawsuit claims that JetBlue failed to take appropriate disciplinary action against the pilots after the flight attendants reported the assault. In addition to suing for aggravated sexual abuse and assault and battery, these women are also suing their employer for sex discrimination and civil rights violations.

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Twenty-eight members of the U.S. women’s soccer team recently filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against U.S. Soccer. Although the members of the U.S. women’s team are world champions, the suit alleges that female players are still paid less than their male counterparts. The female players will defend their world championship title this summer in France, but the players argue that “institutionalized gender discrimination” has existed for years within U.S. soccer.

Instances of Gender Discrimination in U.S. Soccer

The athletes allege that their

The New York City Commission on Human Rights has released new guidelines preventing employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of hairstyle. Hairstyle discrimination will now legally be considered a form of racial discrimination. This new law was put in place specifically to protect black workers. The New York City Commission on Human Rights stated that New Yorkers have a right to maintain “natural hair, treated or untreated hairstyles such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, fades, Afros,

A former KFC worker, Autumn Lampkins, recently won a case against her previous employer in which she claimed she was being discriminated against for breastfeeding in the workplace. Her job required 10-hour shifts, so she needed to pump breast milk at work in order for her newborn to have enough to drink.

Unfair Consequences for Breastfeeding at Work

When Lampkins was first hired to be an assistant manager at a Delaware location of KFC, just a few months after having a