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<p>August 12, 2003 -- Federal investigators have clipped the wings of high-flying legal eagle David Boies' law firm, finding that it discriminated against female attorneys.</p> <p>The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that the Westchester-based firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, maintained a two-tiered promotion system that favored men over women.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - General Motors' corporate policy of allowing employees to create "affinity groups" is the target of a discrimination complaint after one employee says his request to organize fellow workers for Christian-related activities was rejected. John Moranski, who has worked at the G.M. factory in Indianapolis, Ind., for three years, filed the discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) June 20. General Motors began sanctioning employee-initiated affinity groups in 1999 in order to promote workplace diversity and improve employer-employee communications. The company's recognition of an affinity group allows that group access to corporate facilities and communications, as...

Joe's Stone Crab owner Jo Ann Bass has no regrets about the 12 years she spent fighting the charges of sexual discrimination leveled against the landmark Miami Beach restaurant. And if she had to do it all over again, Bass wouldn't hesitate. To this day the granddaughter of Joe's founder still believes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had unfairly targeted her restaurant with trumped-up charges. ''It would have been a hell of a lot cheaper to just pay the $100,000,'' Bass said Tuesday afternoon in a phone interview from her North Carolina summer home. ``It would have been yesterday's mullet...

(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has noted a sharp increase in allegations of religious and ethnic discrimination by private employers, especially on the part of Muslim and Middle Eastern employees. "Muslim employees have been filing increasingly more discrimination complaints based on religion," said David Grinberg, an EEOC spokesman. The agency saw a sharp jump in claims between 2001 and 2002, which it attributed to "backlash discrimination" related to 9/11. Companies increasingly forbid their employees to pray or display religious objects in the workplace, grow beards or wear headgear, the complaints suggest. Employers also fire or refuse...

Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry could be held in contempt of court for not cooperating in a suit involving a custodian. Barry was ordered last year to pay $35,000 in damages to settle a lawsuit with Terrie Jenkins, who said Barry shoved her and exposed himself in a BWI airport bathroom in 2000. The Baltimore Sun reports court documents show Barry hasn't paid the settlement money. A Baltimore Circuit Court judge has scheduled a hearing for next month to decide the matter. In 2001, Barry was sentenced to a year's probation and community service for an assault charge stemming from...

<p>The Great American Country cable channel has fired a producer after she told Charlie Daniels' publicist in an e-mail that the singer's views on Iraq were ''bulls… propaganda.''</p> <p>The producer, Tamara Saviano, has now retained high-powered Nashville attorney David Raybin to battle not only the channel, but also Daniels' publicist, Kirt Webster, as well.</p>

A woman who was fired for refusing to wear pants as part of her work uniform will be paid $30,000 by her employer, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday. Carol Grotts, a Pentecostal, was hired by Brink's in Peoria as a uniformed messenger. She told the company that her religious beliefs precluded her from wearing pants, and she offered to buy culottes. Brink's fired her, then hired her back, allowing her to wear culottes, after she filed a religious discrimination complaint with the EEOC. Under a consent decree filed in federal court, Brink's will also pay Grotts' attorney...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a complaint against the family-owned RD's Drive In/Exxon in Page, Arizona in late October, accusing the diner of employment discrimination "on the basis of national origin and/or race" and of "retaliation" against the employees for their assertion of protected civil rights. It's a specious complaint, and it underscores the need for filling a key vacancy at the EEOC. Now that the Republicans control the Senate, the Bush administration should move quickly.RD's offense was its policy of requiring employees to speak English while on the job, unless a customer couldn't understand English. The...

A hulking federal bureaucracy sues a Mom and Pop burger stand, and thecomplaint alleges discrimination and is steeped in political correctness.This sounds like something one would expect to during the Clinton years,but instead it's happening now. Richard Kidman and his wife Shauna, co-owners of R.D.'s Drive-In in Page,Arizona, say they are on the verge of bankruptcy. They can't afford todefends themselves against a lawsuit filed in federal court in Phoenix bythe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The suit is thefirst-ever English-only discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of NativeAmericans by the federal government. Four former employees of R.D.'sclaimed that the...

PAGE, Ariz. - For the life of them, the Kidmans cannot figure out how they could have kept most of their Navajo employees working in their family's burger stand if they had not enforced an English-only policy. It saved their business, the Kidmans say. But their ban on use of the Navajo language also has triggered the first-ever English-only discrimination lawsuit on behalf of Native Americans by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix on Sept. 27, has drawn national attention because it may shape the rights of all U.S. workers to speak languages...

Navajo lawsuit targets English-only work rule Feds back tribe in 'historic' act A small, family-owned burger grill in Page, a border town to the Navajo Nation, has become the first business to be sued by the federal government for not allowing Native Americans to speak their own language at work. The suit, announced Monday, is the first time the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed an English-only lawsuit based on a Native American language rather than Spanish, said Mary Jo O'Neill, acting regional attorney for the agency's Phoenix office. "It's historic," O'Neill said. "Obviously, Navajo was spoken in this area...

Christian who questioned lecture complains to EEOC By NAHAL TOOSI of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: June 18, 2002 Michael Curtiss headed to a Tuesday lecture in his family practice residency program in Wausau a few months ago, expecting to hear the usual discussion of some aspect of medicine. Instead, he sat surprised as two Muslim first-year residents gave a presentation on Islam. The residents offered prayers, talked about the five pillars of Islam, defended its treatment of women and spoke to allay fears that the U.S. government would intern Muslims, said Curtiss, a staunch Christian and former seminarian....

<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ordered the National Education Association and its state affiliates to stop violating the religious rights of members who disagree with the union's political causes.</p> <p>In a ruling made public yesterday, the federal agency said it would sue the nation's largest teachers union if it did not stop forcing teachers who categorized themselves as "religious objectors" to undergo annual written procedures so their dues would not fund the union's political agenda.</p>

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