Archive for October 29, 2019

Google’s employees have accused the company of installing a surveillance tool onto their computers to monitor attempts to organize unions or protests. The tool reports staff who try to make calendar events with more than 100 participants or 10 meeting rooms to executive employees at Google.  Employees allege that the tool is aimed towards preventing them from mobilizing and learning about workers’ rights.

The Accusations against Google

After the discovery that an internal Google team was developing this policy earlier this month,

The Washington State Civil Rights Initiative, first passed in 1998, outlaws racial preferences in public employment, contracting, and college admissions. At the time, the bill passed with 58% of the vote. People in Washington state now face a vote to roll back this law. The Democratic-controlled state legislature attempted to overturn the ban on preferential treatment. The new proposal allows for the following: “an individual’s race, sex, ethnicity, national origin, age, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability,

A jury awarded a former Walmart employee from Wisconsin $5.2 million in punitive and compensatory damages for a disability discrimination lawsuit. The case found that Walmart was in violation of federal law when it refused to reasonably accommodate the employee’s disabilities. This employee is deaf, visually impaired, and has an additional developmental disability. He worked as a cart pusher for 16 years.

New Walmart Manager Refuses to Accommodate Disability

The employee in question had his disabilities accommodated for the majority of the

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans employment discrimination “on the basis of sex.”  This past Tuesday, the Supreme Court was fundamentally divided on whether or not this federal law should encompass discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.  For two hours, the nine liberal and conservative justices debated on two cases involving sexual orientation discrimination and one case involving discrimination against a transgender person.  The debate particularly focused on whether or not providing LGBTQ employment

The Labor Department announced last month that it will expand overtime pay eligibility to up to 1.3 million workers under a new rule. This new rule will go into effect on January 1st, 2020. Under the new rule, most salaried workers who earn less than about $35,500 per year will be eligible for overtime pay, which is time and a half their usual pay rate. The current overtime threshold is only about $23,700. This is the first increase in the

After a decade-long working relationship, Robert De Niro and his executive assistant, Graham Chase Robinson, are involved in dual legal battles.  De Niro claims that Robinson was misappropriating money from his production company, Canal Productions, and Robinson claims that De Niro subjected her to years of gender discrimination.  Are these legal disputes simply the product of a working relationship gone sour? 

The Allegations

Robinson is suing De Niro for $12 million.  She accuses him of using derogatory language to female employees such