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Cherie Stewart has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against her former employer Gar Laboratories, a company well-known for producing cosmetics, toiletries, and other health and beauty products.  Stewart claims that Gar Laboratories violated several California labor laws when they fired her after she filed a complaint that she had been assaulted and battered by one […]

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In unrelated incidents, two former employees of the University of Pennsylvania have filed lawsuits against the school, both claiming they were the victims of discrimination while working there.
One lawsuit was filed by Lucretia Nelson, a U.S. citizen of Liberian descent, who worked at the University’s Medical Center as a certified nursing assistant from June 1989 […]

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The LPGA could face backlash for a new regulation requiring all golfers on the LPGA tour to speak English.  Currently, the LPGA tour has 121 international players representing 26 countries.
There have been mixed reactions, so far, to the possibility of the LPGA instituting an English policy.  While many individuals claim that […]

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Earlier this year, Brenda Biesterfield was working as a library aide in Lindsay, CA. On February 28th, she claims, she caught a library patron viewing child pornography on one of the public-access computers. Her supervisor instructed her not to call the police, to instead slip the patron a note telling him not to view pornography […]

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Whitehall, a jewelers located in Fairfield, California recently settled a religious discrimination suit out of court. Plaintiff Shereen Attia filed the suit in July 2007 after being turned down for a job, allegedly because she wears a head scarf. Attia claims that she had previously worked at another jewlers owned by Whitehall until she lost […]

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