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It says an employer can "differentiate upon the basis of sex" when it compensates employees "if such differentiation is authorized by" the Equal Pay Act. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), as well as certain state fair employment practices agencies (FEPAs), enforce Title VII (see 42 U.S.C. ยง 2000e-4).
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors, and other ...
Sexual harassment in the workplace in US labor law has been considered a form of discrimination on the basis of sex in the United States since the mid-1970s. There are two forms of sexual harassment recognized by United States law: quid pro quo sexual harassment (requiring an employee to tolerate sexual harassment to keep their job, receive a tangible benefit, or avoid punishment) and behavior ...
In 2020, a judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Erie approved a $4.5 million settlement that ended 11 lawsuits related to a MRSA outbreak at Tri-State in 2017.
They stole $300 billion in pandemic relief, according to one FBI official's account, representing the biggest fraud in history. That success emboldened fraudsters to keep going. "They've taken ...
January 26, 2024 at 4:33 PM. A Bucks County judge released a settlement for a former Falls police officer after her attorney withdrew a motion to keep it confidential. A Pennsylvania law that ...
Like many U.S. states, Walmart is the largest private employer in Pennsylvania. The state's second-largest employer is the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League private research university in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is home to the oldest investor-owned utility company in the U.S., The York Water Company.
In 1998, the university launched Penn State World Campus, or Penn State Online, which offers more than 60 online education programs, degrees, and certificates. Distance education has a long history at Penn State, one of the first universities in the country to offer a correspondence course for remote farmers in 1892.