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Price tag for sex and age discrimination: $250k

HR Morning

RCH Colorado, owner and operator of the Reserve Casino Hotel, a prominent hotel and casino in Central City, CO, will pay $250,000 to settle an age and sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. revise and distribute its anti-discrimination policies, and. report to EEOC if there are any complaints of age or gender discrimination.

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A heterosexual employee sued for sexual-orientation discrimination. Really?!?

The Employer Handbook

So, we have the HR Manager, presumably the employer’s head of compliance, ostensibly the person whose job it is to investigate claims of discrimination and harassment, making a transphobic post on Facebook. The HR manager replied saying she felt she was being discriminated against because she was heterosexual.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals and Trending #HotInHR News

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New Learning Modules Added to HR Genius for the Week of July 9, 2018 Including Best Practices in Avoiding Discrimination, Group Health Plans, and More. Tags: Diversity, Training. Week in Review – Popular Content. A Record Number of Americans Are Quitting Their Jobs (Bloomberg). M&A Friday! fundings #HRtech Click To Tweet.

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Price tag for training policy that led to sex discrimination in hiring: $3.1 million

HR Morning

A new lesson in hiring from the EEOC: You can’t get away with discriminating against a specific group of applicants by improperly structuring your training program. . The agency filed the present suit against Prime in September 2011 based on a discrimination charge filed by Deanna Roberts Clouse. New Prime Trucking, Inc.,

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Dear ReWorker: How Do I Handle a Sexual Harassment Claim?

Cornerstone On Demand

Are You Discriminating Based on Gender or Sexual Orientation? If your answer is yes, then you're discriminating illegally. The courts have reached mixed verdicts on whether you can legally discriminate against someone based on sexual orientation, but the reality is, even if your bias falls within the law, you shouldn't act on it.

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California aims to prevent marijuana-use discrimination: Start of a trend?

HR Morning

If this bill passes, medical marijuana users in California will be classified as a protected class and employers will be unable to discriminate against them because of their marijuana usage. Legislation to ban marijuana-use discrimination is part of a growing trend of general acceptance for the substance that was once a workplace taboo.

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#HotInHR: Instagram Post Led To N.F.L. Cheerleader’s Discrimination Case, The Russian Robot That’s Hiring Humans …

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Cheerleader’s Discrimination Case (New York Times). Cheerleader’s Discrimination Case, The Russian Robot That’s Hiring Humans. Discrimination #Recruitment Click To Tweet. Cheerleader’s Discrimination Case, The Russian Robot That’s Hiring Humans … appeared first on HRmarketer. Tags: Business News.