Charges of race and sex discrimination on the job declined in South Carolina in 2012 – but charges of religious discrimination went up. That’s according to new figures from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. There were a total of 1,232 South Carolina job discrimination charges filed by the EEOC…
A growing number of women are filing pregnancy discrimination claims with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to a Marketwatch report by Kristen Grencher published on Wednesday, October 24th. Pregnancy discrimination claims have jumped 45 percent since 1992, and the EEOC received 4,901 complaints last year, up from…
A recent employment discrimination case sheds light on the toll disability discrimination can take on people who already struggle with debilitating lifelong illnesses. The plaintiff in the Brown v. Kelly Servs., Inc. case in New Jersey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) about a year after a promotion at her…