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Former Congressional Staffer Sues Office of Former Boss for Hostile Work Environment and Gender Discrimination

Lauren Greene, former New Media Director and later Communications Director for Blake Farenthold, a congressman from Texas and the owner of the domain name “www.blow-me.org” filed suit against her former boss in D.C. federal district court on Friday, December 12. The complaint alleges that Congressman Farenthold created an “uncomfortable work environment,” according to the Washington Post,…

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11 Things You Should Know About EEOC’s New Guidelines on Pregnancy Discrimination in Employment (Part 2)

In Part 1 of our 2 Part series on the EEOC’s new Guidelines on Pregnancy Discrimination, we discussed the first five things you should know about this recent and important guidance.  Here are tips six through eleven: 6) Title VII prohibits an employer from offering a health insurance plan that…

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Mandatory Sexual Harassment Trainings for Congress and Their Staffs?

You’ve likely heard by now the story of freshman Louisiana Congressman Vance McAllister (R-La.) kissing one of his staffers.  Now, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) is trying to make it so that Representatives and their staffs have to undergo mandatory sexual harassment training. Unlike the rest of the federal government and…

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Unpaid Interns Earn the Right to Sue in NYC

In 2013, Lihuan Wang, then a student at Syracuse University and an unpaid intern for Phoenix Sattelite Television, sued Phoenix because her supervisor took her to lunch and to a hotel room where he kissed her by force and grabbed her buttocks.  She resisted and, later, Phoenix wouldn’t hire her.…

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