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The EEOC has been criticized for alleged heavy-handed tactics in their 1980 lawsuit against retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co. Based on a statistical analysis of personnel and promotions, EEOC argued that Sears both was systematically excluding women from high-earning positions in commission sales and was paying female management lower wages than ...
[9] [10] [11] EEOC statistics from 2018, show that 1,811 LGBT complaints were filed. The Williams Institute estimates the number of LGBT employees as follows: 7 million private sector employees, 1 million state and local employees, and 200,000 employees of the federal government. Thirty percent of state and local LGBT employees live in ...
Equal Pay Day flag flying on March 21, 2014 in Alsbach, Germany . Equal Pay Day is the symbolic day dedicated to raising awareness of the gender pay gap.In the United States, this date symbolizes how far into the year the average median woman must work (in addition to their earnings last year) in order to have earned what the average median man had earned the entire previous year.
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. [1] [2] 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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private payrolls increased at a moderate pace in November, while annual wages for workers staying in their jobs edged up for the first time in 25 months.
Karla Gilbride is an American attorney and civil rights litigator currently serving as the General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). [1] [2] Gilbride is the first individual with a known disability to serve as the General Counsel of the EEOC, and holds the distinction of being the first blind lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Equal employment opportunity is equal opportunity to attain or maintain employment in a company, organization, or other institution. Examples of legislation to foster it or to protect it from eroding include the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which was established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to assist in the protection of United ...
The share of adults with literacy skills at the lowest measured levels increased, according to the National Center for Education Statistics’ Survey of Adult Skills. Growing number of U.S. adults ...