Religion & Law

ACLU Applauds First-Ever Congressional Hearing on Gender Identity in the Workplace
The ACLU has issued this press release that begins: “The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Heath, Employment, Labor, and Pensions for holding the first-ever congressional hearing on transgender issues and gender identity discrimination in the workplace...

Behavioral Analyses of Workplace Discrimination
The Center for Labor and Employment Law at NYU proudly announces the publication of a new volume, edited by Michael Yelnosky (Roger WIlliams) and Mitu Gulati (Duke) in its ?Selected Papers? series...

N.J. Supreme Court Says Religious Slurs Create a Hostile Workplace
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that a person bringing a claim of workplace discrimination based on religion does not have a higher burden of proof than those charging discrimination based on gender or race...

Lack of Accommodation for Well-Endowed Prison Guard Not Sex Discrimination
The Courier-Post (Camden, NJ) Online has this unusual gender discrimination story: A state judge Friday dismissed a workplace discrimination lawsuit brought by a jail guard who says she is too well-endowed to wear the state-mandated protective vest...

FRC: ENDA the Line for Workplace Protections
. . . the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would mandate that employers accept gays and lesbians into the workplace regardless of the organization's moral beliefs . . .

Moral Stereotyping as Family Status Discrimination
This is my second post in our multi-part series on “family status” discrimination, which is becoming more and more common under both federal and state law. There are many ways family status discrimination can happen in the workplace, some of which are very subtle and difficult to prove...

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

Atlas Cold Storage
Income Trust to pay $40 million to settle a class action that claims misrepresented financial statements.

Jury Awards $82.5M in Workplace Death Lawsuit
Jury Awards $82.5M in Workplace Death Lawsuit

Jury Awards $1,642,475 in Workplace Electrocution Lawsuit
Workplace Electrocution Lawsuit Jury Awards $1,642,475

Sexual Harassment
(in the workplace)

Workers Compensation
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant pays waitress $900,000 settlement after workplace injury.

Drive Through Discrimination
Jack-in-the Box pays undisclosed racial discrimination settlement to two customers.