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US Foods and OFCCP Settle Hiring Discrimination Claims

Berkshire Associates

has entered into a conciliation agreement with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to settle allegations of hiring discrimination at the foodservice distributors’ Wixom, Michigan facility. According to the conciliation agreement, OFCCP alleges that from January 2011 through December 2012 US Foods, Inc.

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Allied Burton Security Services Agrees to Large Payout for Race & Gender Discrimination

Berkshire Associates

The agreement aims to resolve alleged pay discrimination of Black, American Indian, and Female employees. The findings were found to affect over 2200 employees over a period of two years, from November 2012 through November 2014, at a New York City location.

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OFCCP Settles Discrimination Claims with Nebraska Skilled Nursing Home

Berkshire Associates

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has entered into a conciliation agreement with GGNSC Omaha Hallmark, LLC and Omaha Metro Care Rehabilitation Center, LLC to settle allegations of hiring discrimination at a skilled nursing home facility in Omaha, Nebraska.

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What Is Reasonable Accommodation?

BerniePortal

In 2012, Vitas HealthCare in Miami paid $65,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit and agreed to amend its reasonable accommodation policy. Her position required a lot of driving to and from hospices, so she asked to be reassigned to a vacant position at the company.

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How Tech Companies Can Navigate “The Great Resignation”

Sterling Check

Hiring without a thorough background check puts everything at risk: your employees, your corporate assets, and the reputation you’ve built among your customers. In 2020, people spent an average of two hours and 25 minutes on social media each day — up from just 90 minutes a day as recently as 2012.

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That time when Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett upheld a plaintiff’s $300K discrimination win

The Employer Handbook

Welcome back to “ Amy Coney Barrett Week” at The Employer Handbook. Today, let’s see how Judge Barrett dealt with a jury verdict in the plaintiff’s favor on her national origin discrimination claim that the plaintiff brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Rachel Malehorn / CC BY. Proctor Hosp.

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We interrupt this mediation discussion for a NEW Supreme Court employment discrimination decision!

The Employer Handbook

” In 2012, the Supreme Court decided Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. In Hosanna-Tabor, an elementary school teacher brought an employment discrimination claim against her religious employer. Morrissey-Berru. The “ministerial exception.” EEOC (available here ). Morrissey-Berru (available here ).