Earlier this month, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act—a bill requiring employers with at least 15 employees to provide 10 days of paid vacation. The Bill currently has a whopping 0 cosponsors, which is exactly the same number of co-sponsors Representative Alan Grayson’s Paid Vacation Act (a similar bill) received in the last Congress. Despite evidence of overwhelming public support for such legislation,…
I recently discovered what has now become one of my all-time favorite Tumblrs: Congrats, you have an all male panel! The site compiles photos and flyers of “all male panels, seminars, events, and various other things featuring all male experts” from all over the world and gives each a David Hasselhoff stamp of approval. The result is a hilarious and profound commentary…
Regular readers of this blog are very familiar with Young v. UPS, a Supreme Court case about pregnancy discrimination. Here at Shattering the Ceiling, we are excited about the case – and about the outcome. My colleagues have written here about why accommodating pregnant women is good for American families – and good for business and about why the Supreme Court’s…
In a recent article published in The Atlantic, Sophie Gilbert, who is the Senior Editor for the magazine’s Culture section, reviewed a recently published collection of essays titled Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed, which relates the personal choices of sixteen individuals to not have children. As Gilbert relates, the collection’s project is to “dismantle the assumption of selfishness” surrounding the decision not to have…
Posted June 3rd, 2015. ZARA’S FORMER GENERAL COUNSEL ALLEGES HE WAS FIRED BECAUSE OF HIS JEWISH RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND AMERICAN NATIONALITYLAWSUIT ACCUSES ZARA FOUNDER AMANCIO ORTEGA OF INSTALLING RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC BAD ACTORS AND INSULATING THEM FROM PUNISHMENTZARA’S TOP EXECUTIVES ACCUSED OF SENDING RACIST AND PORNOGRAPHIC EMAILS DENIGRATING AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND GAYS For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected]…
As appeared in El Mundo A former employee of Zara in the United States has filed a lawsuit in a New York court accusing the company for “discrimination” and unfair dismissal and seeks damages of $ 40 million .The lawsuit was filed in the Supreme Court of New York by Ian Jack Miller, former legal director of Zara USA ,…
Posted June 1st, 2015. SAN DIEGO, June 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Sanford Heisler Kimpel, LLP, the nation’s premier public interest employment and whistleblower litigation law firm, today announced the opening of a new office in San Diego and the addition of Edward D. “Ed” Chapin as its Managing Partner and Charles H. Field as Of Counsel. The firm’s fourth office will be located at 501 W. Broadway, Suite 515,…