Word: equalization
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that former employees are entitled to the same protection against retaliation as are current employees or job applicants who have accused a company of racial discrimination. Otherwise, wrote Justice Clarence Thomas, who served at one time as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, employees who have suffered from discrimination will shy away from complaining to the Commission, fearing that the move could hurt their chances for future employment. The case centered on former Shell sales representative Charles Robinson, a black man who sued Shell for racial discrimination after being fired...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that former employees are entitled to the same protection against retaliation as are current employees or job applicants who have accused a company of racial discrimination. Otherwise, wrote Justice Clarence Thomas, who served at one time as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, employees who have suffered from discrimination will shy away from complaining to the Commission, fearing that the move could hurt their chances for future employment. The case centered on former Shell sales representative Charles Robinson, a black man who sued Shell for racial discrimination after being fired...
...sides say they are prepared to go to war over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs or the Muslim-Croat federation, which surely would reignite the fighting. One option he has considered would be dividing the city into three equal parts, with an international governor administering a free port, the Muslim-Croat federation taking the western half of the city and the Serbs taking the east. Before the Serbs seized Brcko at the start of the 3 1/2-year war, 68 percent of the population was Muslim and Croat. To them...
...Germany their faith in the preachings of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard is politically taboo; Scientology is deemed not a religion but a suspect movement whose activities verge on the dangerous edges of extremism. Now Germany's stern attitudes are raising something of an international ruckus, fueled in equal parts by the assertive Church of Scientology, Hollywood luminaries and a U.S. government caught with conflicting objectives...
...Clinton Administration, citing these revelations, remains committed to protecting the disputed land. It promises to compensate local mining interests by swapping federal lands of equal value for those that lie within the monument. Utah Senator Bob Bennett sniffs at this, insisting that there is no land of equal value. Bennett is also unimpressed with Clinton's promise that all the current uses of the region, except mining, would be unchanged by its new status. The Senator wants that pledge written into law. "We'll see how sincere they are," he says...