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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following announcement on Feb. 3.
The former operators of a Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Monroe, La., will pay $400,000 and provide extensive non-monetary relief to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.
The former operators of the hotel Aimbridge Hospitality, LLC and AH 2007 Management, LP (collectively, Aimbridge) are based in Plano, Tex., and manage hotels nationally and internationally.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Aimbridge paid a male guest service representative $15.25 per hour while paying a female front desk supervisor and female guest service representatives $11 or less per hour. Aimbridge eventually began paying the female supervisor $16 per hour, but unlawfully reduced the pay rate of the male representative rather than increasing the pay rates of the female representatives, as the law requir
A federal lawsuit alleging discriminatory hiring practices at the Colorado Supreme Court is poised to shed light on the recent allegation that former Chief Justice Nathan Ben Coats and other court employees gave a contract worth up to $2.75 million to a former judicial employee to keep her from divulging the personal misconduct of 20 or more district court judges and administrators.
The Colorado Judicial Department has sent a memo to employees denying the allegation as reported in The Denver Post that the contract was intended to stop Mindy Masias, the former chief of staff of the Supreme Court administrator’s office, from filing a sexual discrimination lawsuit that would expose misconduct of others at the department.
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Supporters of employees wanting to wear Black Lives Matter masks during their shifts gathered outside the River St. Whole Foods in Cambridge in June 2020. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
A federal trial judge last week dismissed the bulk of a discrimination lawsuit filed by former workers at the Whole Foods Market on Rivers Street in Cambridge.
The suit, brought last summer, alleged the Amazon-owned company illegally barred employees from wearing protective masks that read Black Lives Matter (BLM) during their shifts.
The dispute that led to the lawsuit began days after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd sparked protests for racial justice across the country and around Greater Boston. Whole Foods said the BLM masks violated company dress code, and when some employees continued to wear them, management sent them home without pay.
Monday, February 8, 2021
Arizona employers are now expressly prohibited by state law from discriminating against employees on the basis of pregnancy or childbirth. On January 28, 2021, the Arizona Legislature passed, and on Thursday, February 4, 2021, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed into law, HB 2045, which amends the state civil rights statute to clarify that existing statutory prohibitions on sex-based discrimination also preclude discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and childbirth. Accordingly, Arizona becomes the 28
th state to preclude pregnancy discrimination expressly under state law.
Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 41-1461,
et seq. already prohibits discrimination by covered employers (
i.e., employers that employ fifteen (15) or more employees) “because of sex” or “on the basis of sex.” Following the passage of HB 2045, the Arizona Civil Rights Act (ACRA) – Arizona’s state civil rights statute – now expressly states that its prohibition on discr