Employee Discrimination

A noted economics professor and author pays quick homage to the seminal Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a recent article discussing one pointed tangent of employment discrimination. David Neumark notes in a piece penned under the sponsorship of the nonprofit Brookings...

Here’s a statistic relevant to American youth that might surprise some readers: According to the U.S. Social Security Administration and as reported in a recent national article, about 25% of individuals aged 20 today “will have a temporary or permanent brush with...

“Astonishingly common.” Reportedly, and as duly noted by a commentator in a recent Harvard Business article, that terse assessment about sums it up concerning company retaliation against workers who spotlight discriminatory on-the-job behaviors. The Harvard piece...

Some people unquestionably go about life with attitudes marked by a lack of empathy for others. Their mindset suggests that they either don’t see or simply don’t care much about challenges and inequities that third parties face. Such indifference and its coupled...

Is the federal work sphere an inviting environment for those seeking to forge careers in government positions? That depends. Answers will certainly vary. And relevant statistical data indicate that such variance will materially depend upon gender. Consider this:...

The seminal Title VII provision of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 is landmark legislation safeguarding American workers against workplace discrimination. The statutory enactment created a number of protected classifications, enumerating and later expanding upon...

To simply state that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has a sexual harassment problem is, well, a bit of an understatement. In fact, the vast federal agency is currently recoiling under an onslaught of allegations grounded in widespread unethical and unlawful...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission unquestionably has one of the broadest mandates of any federal agency. We underscore that at the Devadoss Law Firm, noting on the website of our national employment law offices that the EEOC “oversees equal employment in the...

On the one hand, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ stressed commitment to “changing the culture” is undoubtedly music to the ears of legions of female critics who lambast the agency. On the other hand, though, the tune they are hearing is reportedly anything...