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MoD employee reveals sexual harassment episodes

January 4, 2024

Via: Personnel Today

The woman spoke out via the Prospect trade union after reading reports in November 2023 that 60 senior female officials had made allegations of sexual assault, harassment and abuse in the MoD in a letter to permanent secretary David Williams. […]


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Schuff Steel pays $500K to settle alleged harassment of Black and Latino workers

December 28, 2023

Via: HR Dive

Fueled by a number of factors, including a budget increase and Senate confirmation of Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal to the board restoring the agency’s Democratic majority, the EEOC is returning to a heightened level of litigation activity not seen in years, […]


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McDonald’s to survey franchisees on child labor practices

December 18, 2023

Via: HR Dive

McDonald’s did not comment on whether its efforts to ensure franchisee compliance with child labor laws, safety standards and hours procedures constituted the sort of “indirect” or “reserved” control over essential conditions of employment laid out in a National Labor […]


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Employee’s Job Transfer May Have Been Age Discrimination

December 15, 2023

Via: SHRM

A trial court erred in dismissing an employee’s age bias claim before trial, a California appeals court recently ruled. The man’s employer claimed he voluntarily accepted a new position during a corporate reorganization, but there was evidence to support the […]


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LinkedIn to pay $6.75M in ERISA class-action settlement

December 14, 2023

Via: HR Dive

ERISA sets minimum standards that covered retirement and health plans must meet to ensure participants’ and beneficiaries’ interests are protected. In June, the Kraft Heinz Co. sued insurer Aetna for allegedly “breach[ing] its fiduciary duties and engag[ing]in prohibited transactions” in […]


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New York City Requires Employers to Post an Employee Bill of Rights

December 13, 2023

Via: SHRM

On Dec. 3, the New York City Council passed a bill requiring the Department of Consumer and Worker Production (DCWP), in coordination with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA), the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and community […]


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Civil servants campaign for four-day week

December 8, 2023

Via: Personnel Today

Staff have called for a pilot scheme involving more than 21,000 employees, and are backed by the 4 Day Week Campaign, which ran a successful trial in the private sector. Civil service union the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) […]


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Google Settles Claims Related to Workplace Confidentiality Policy

December 6, 2023

Via: SHRM

Google recently settled a 2016 lawsuit alleging that it used illegal practices to stop employees from complaining about the workplace. The lawsuit claimed the company’s confidentiality policies were unlawful. The Mountain View, Calif.-based tech giant has about 187,000 workers. It […]


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DWP staff shortages harming mental health, claims union

December 5, 2023

Via: Personnel Today

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has requested an urgent meeting with work and pensions secretary Mel Stride and DWP permanent secretary Peter Schofield to discuss what the union believes is a “staffing crisis” at the government department. PCS […]


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Conservative group takes aim at DEI policies of 3 major airlines

November 6, 2023

Via: HR Dive

On Nov. 2, the day after it called for an EEOC inquiry into the airlines’ DEI practices, America First Legal filed a race and sex discrimination complaint with the agency against NASCAR and Rev Racing, according to its press release. […]


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Sexual harassment was ‘normalised’ on RAF’s Red Arrows team

November 2, 2023

Via: Personnel Today

The non-statutory inquiry (NSI) from the Ministry of Defence, which is heavily redacted, said sexual harassment and other forms of unacceptable behaviour on the elite squadron were widespread and “normalised”. It said behaviour could be “shockingly inappropriate” and “predatory”. A […]


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EEOC: Grocery chain illegally compelled employee to use EAP

October 27, 2023

Via: HR Dive

Weis Markets, a chain of Mid-Atlantic grocery stores, illegally tried to compel an employee at a store in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, to participate in its employee assistance program after she complained about a supervisor’s alleged sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment […]


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Unraveling TikTok Trends in the Workplace

October 26, 2023

Via: Entrepreneur

With numerous work-related TikTok trends gaining traction, the social media platform has highlighted a growing sense of dissatisfaction and discontent among employees and employers alike. An evaluation by Workamajig, a project management software firm, revealed the top five workplace-centered TikTok […]


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Rolls-Royce announces thousands of job losses

October 17, 2023

Via: Personnel Today

The engineering giant, which employs 42,000 people, said the new structure would remove duplication and save on costs. Among those affected by the job losses are its people teams, who along with finance and general counsel will be brought together […]


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Platform workers legislation could drive Uber out of EU cities

September 20, 2023

Via: Personnel Today

The EU Platform Workers Directive would reclassify drivers and couriers working for Uber and similar companies as employees, giving them full working rights. Currently, the majority of platform workers in the EU are classified as self-employed, even though they have […]


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Toxic culture at immigration centre saw staff abuse migrants

September 19, 2023

Via: Personnel Today

Staff at Brook House immigration detention centre near Gatwick Airport were found to have subjected detainees to degrading treatment, including forcibly moving people while they were naked, and speaking to migrants using racist, homophobic and derogatory language. Staff often showed […]


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California set to require workplace violence prevention plans

September 18, 2023

Via: HR Dive

Cortese said the bill was prompted by a 2021 shooting at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) railyard in San Jose that killed 10 people, including the shooter. An independent investigator found the transportation authority didn’t have prior knowledge […]


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What happens when an employee is discharged under stigmatizing circumstances

September 13, 2023

Via: HRD America

In a recent case, a student filed a complaint alleging that her professor showed racial bias against her, routinely demeaned and embarrassed her in front of her classmates, and failed to offer the required disability accommodations for her dyslexia. The […]


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Spirit Airlines curtails employee eligibility for FMLA leave, lawsuit alleges

September 12, 2023

Via: HR Dive

The FMLA provides eligible employees the right to take up to 12 work weeks of job-protected leave for a qualifying reason, a DOL guidance explains. For example, an eligible employee who works 32 hours a week may use up to […]


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Federal court dismisses suit that targeted Starbucks’ DEI policies

August 15, 2023

Via: HR Dive

In 2020, Starbucks linked some parts of executive compensation to the fulfillment of its DEI goals. In March 2022, the NCPPR — through the American Civil Rights Project, a conservative law firm — demanded Starbucks retract its DEI proposals, according […]