Civil rights advocates are calling on a U.S. agency to recognize that caste discrimination is illegal under existing federal law, an issue growing more prominent as tech companies are hit with litigation by South Asian workers alleging bias based on social status.
A dozen groups, including the International Commission on Dalit Rights, pressed the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to acknowledge that the practice of discriminating against historically oppressed South Asian groups is “an urgent contemporary U.S. civil rights and social justice issue,” according to a memo sent to the agency on Monday and obtained by Bloomberg Law.
U.S. Civil Rights Agency Urged to Recognize Caste Discrimination
Paige Smith, Bloomberg News The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) seal hangs inside a hearing room at the headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. The Trump administration wants to cut fiscal year 2021 spending on the Labor Department, National Labor Relations Board, and EEOC, reviving previous belt-tightening bids that have not been approved by Congress. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg Law) Civil rights advocates are calling on a U.S. agency to recognize that caste discrimination is illegal under existing federal law, an issue growing more prominent as tech companies are hit with litigation by South Asian workers alleging bias based on social status.
French stunt school s badass women snapped up by film industry
05/10/2021 19:43 (Correct paragraph 11 in May 6 story to make clear MacNair filed a complaint with the U.S. EEOC and not a civil lawsuit; adds paragraph 12 with EEOC response)
LE CATEAU-CAMBRESIS, France (Reuters) -Valeriane Michelini trained as a dancer before opting to tap into the growing demand for stuntwomen and a career of jumping out of helicopters, leaping from buildings and brawling.
Michelini is one of a growing number of women passing through the Campus Univers Cascade (CUC), which bills itself as the world s biggest stunt school, and looking to break into European cinema and Hollywood as a stunt double.
Covid-related litigation and complaints have steadily risen throughout the pandemic, with California and New Jersey, seeing the most filings, according to Jackson Lewis, an employment and labor law firm that tracks these numbers.
Experts say it s likely to increase as courts wade through a backlog of cases and government agencies deal with pent-up claims. The employment practices liability carriers are very mindful of the additional claims activity that hasn t yet materialized, said Kelly Thoerig, a U.S. employment practices liability coverage leader at consulting firm Marsh McLennan.
Employers are walking a tightrope in organizing a return to work, fraught with liability and risk, she said.
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