Women’s Rights Employment Law Blog
The Women's Rights Employment Law Blog covers women's and transgender rights, with links to news items and posts of reader comments.
Author: This blawg is overseen by Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, a New York City law firm dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace.
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Recent Posts from Women’s Rights Employment Law Blog
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Slow Economy Leads to Rise in Domestic Violence
By Saswat Pattanayak As job losses increasingly become a norm, so does domestic violence. For the men who lose jobs what results is frustrations targeted at family; for women, it is dual oppression - at…
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NASCAR Settles Harassment Suit Out Of Court
Jay W Pennell writes and Harcoreracefans.com reports that NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit with a former technical inspector. Avoiding a potentially long and drawn-out public trial, NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit…
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As layoffs rise, wrongful-termination suits may follow
Labor attorneys advise firms on defensible downsizing. Avoid the appearance of bias by category, one says. By Carol J. Williams for LA Times Lured away from her job in Houston to take an executive position…
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Pope denounces ‘gender theory’
Article from: Agence France-Presse POPE Benedict XVI has denounced gender theory, warning that it blurs the distinction between male and female and could thus lead to the “self-destruction” of the human race. When the Roman…
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The “Kosher” Workplace
By Michelle Kornblit In light of the shocking revelations of the unethical, and illegal employment practices at the Agriprocessor Kosher slaughterhouse in Postville Iowa, there has been a demand in the Orthodox Jewish community to…
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Health of the Nation
By Saswat Pattanayak Texas is the state with highest percentage of people not covered by health insurance in the US. It is noteworthy only because it is where the President Bush and his family plan…
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“Boss, I’m pregnant!”
Planning your maternity leave? Here are 10 ways to protect your rights at work, before and after your baby’s birth. FAMILY PHYSICIAN Nicolle Overstreet, D.O., was fired on Oct. 10, 2007, nine days after she…
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Most Latinas to be Denied Basic Access to Health
By Samantha McLane In these times of scientific and technological progression, international commerce, globalization, internet communication, multiculturalism, and other important achievements that have provided us with “better living conditions”, health services seem to be heading…
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Trans Formed: To Be Homeless & Transgender
The night my church opened its 10-bed homeless shelter for 18-to-24-year-olds, I volunteered to supervise them. A novice to any kind of shelter experience, I was nervous as I dragged my red cart with pillow…
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More Men Filing Workplace Lawsuits
The macho man image is dying in the workplace. Tresa Baldas writes in The National Law Journal Employment and family law attorneys say a growing number of men are filing a wide variety of workplace…