Word: eeoc
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Cost of the settlement in a racial-harassment lawsuit against a Mississippi oil-rig company. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says nooses were displayed on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico...
Before male feminists were groovy, Richard Graham, onetime deputy to Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver and founding member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, waged an uphill battle for women's equality. In Washington, where members of Congress joked about sex discrimination and the eeoc ignored it, the ex-Air Force engineer insisted women should be hired for hard labor posts and mothers were "the most stable workers in the labor market." Graham later helped found the National Organization for Women...
...Hoffman, a partner with the New York-based firm Outten & Golden, said there is more at stake in this case than the denial of Bailey for a full time position. Hoffman filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claiming that the use of credit scores to determine employment eligibility is discriminatory against minorities because minorities are more likely to have credit problems...
...EEOC is still determining whether using credit histories as a criterion for employment in fact an illegal form of discrimination...
...EEOC spokesman Christine Nazer said that the EEOC is prohibited from releasing information about a charge unless it results in a lawsuit, a measure that she said is “usually a last resort...