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- Feb 4 2023
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Weekly Workplace Update!
A Week of Good News
Last week I wrote about employers doing dumb things. This week we’re sharing only good news.
First, not all companies are bad. Many do the right thing and we saw an example of that this week when Intel cut high-level management salaries instead of slashing its workforce. The CEO is taking a 25% pay cut while other high-level …
Monday Morning Good Things for Employees
Employment Law Optimism to start your week.
Happy Monday! Here are some positive and interesting things in the employment world from last week:
The five main actors in the hit show, “The Big Bang Theory,” have all agreed to take a pay cut so two of its female cast members–Mayim Bialik (who plays Amy) and Melissa Rauch (who plays Bernadette)–can get raises. …
- Dec 1 2015
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- Blog, Gender Discrimination, Hiring Practices, Workplace Discrimination
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Ageism in Hiring – A Problem for Women but not Men
Study Finds that Older Women Face More Discrimination than Older Men
A lot has been written lately about women’s continued struggle for equal pay and opportunities in the workplace. Nothing about those struggles is surprising. However, a recent study shows that as women age in the workforce, things become worse for them. Not only are they experiencing gender discrimination, but age …
- May 28 2015
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- Blog, Workplace Discrimination
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Age Discrimination in the Digital Age
Employers’ search for digital natives on the rise: good recruiting or age discrimination?
Fortune published an interesting article this month about the rise of a curious trend: employers recruiting for “digital natives” and the potential age-biases implied by such hiring methods, which make them controversial.
Fortune reports that the “digital native” recruitment trend is especially prominent in the media, advertising, and tech industries, where …
- Feb 1 2014
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- Firm News, Firm Victories, Workplace Discrimination
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Defeated UPS’s Partial Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Age Discrimination Lawsuit
Defeated UPS’s partial motion to dismiss parts of Plaintiff’s Age Discrimination lawsuit. Plaintiff permitted to proceed on all theories of recovery in federal court.
- Apr 5 2010
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- Age Discrimination, Blog, Workplace Discrimination
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When Will Law Firms Learn?
The EEOC announced last month that it was filing suit against Kelley Drye & Warren, an international law firm with its primary office in New York City, for paying its 70 year old+ lawyers much less than their younger counterparts.
According to the EEOC’s suit, Kelley Drye attorneys who practiced law after turning 70 years of age received dramatically reduced compensation …
