A lawsuit has been filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the independent Austin-based insurance company, Time Insurance Agency, Inc., for discrimination against a potential employee because she was pregnant.
According to the lawsuit, Time Insurance Agency, Inc. refused to hire a fully qualified female applicant for a position as a bond department assistant simply because she happend to be pregnant.
Pregnancy discrimination is in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed this suit after they failed to reach a voluntary settlement with the insurance agency.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of pregnancy discrimination, contact Los Angeles pregnancy discrimination lawyer Perry Smith today by calling 888-356-2529 to discuss your legal rights and options.
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 of her male co-workers.
Stewart claims that she filed a complaint with the company stating that one of the men she worked with attacked and choked her.
If her case is successful, Stewart’s firing could be shown to be in violation of anti-retaliation laws, which protect individuals from termination if they report on unsafe or unethical practices in their workplace.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of wrongful termination, contact Los Angeles wrongful termination lawyer Perry Smith today at 888-356-2529 to discuss your legal rights and options.
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 through September 2006.
According to Nelson, she faced increasing discrimination at her job during her last four years there, and management ignored her complaints.At one point, she was even told by a co-worker that she should have stayed in Liberia, and that the jobs in the medical center were “for us”.
A separate suit was filed by Fahmida Hussain, a U.S. citizen originally from Bangladesh, who worked as a dentist at Penn’s School of Dental Medicine from 2000 to 2007.
Hussain is suing both the Dental School and the Penn Dental Medicine Care Network for discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, and retaliation.Hussain also claims she faced discrimination because she was a mother.
The University has not commented on either of these cases.
If you feel that you have been the victim of discrimination in the workplace, contact the Los Angeles employment attorney Perry Smith at 888-356-2529 to get the representation you deserve.
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 the language restriction is insulting and demeaning, others argue that learning English is very important and could be beneficial to foreign-born players.
Representatives of the New York Civil Liberties Union say that the LPGA could be vulnerable to a discrimination law suit if it barred golfers from participating in the tour based on their nationality or language of origin, as language is not essential to the job in question [golf].
However, South Korean Hall of Famer Se Ri Pak stated that she believes there is a problem on the tour in terms of communication, and thinks that a language policy is a good idea.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of job discrimination, contact Los Angeles employment lawyer Perry Smith today at 888-356-2529 to schedule a consultation.
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 on that computer. Biesterfield complied, but the next day she went to the local police station to report what she had seen. She claims this decision cost her her job. Her supervisor claims that Biesterfield never specified that the patron was viewing child pornography, which is illegal.
If you have lost your job for following the law, you could be a victim of wrongful termination. For further information, contact Los Angeles employment attorney Perry Smith at (888) 356-2529.
