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A former Blackberry employee in California is suing the company’s new CEO John Giamatteo for sexual harassment and retaliation. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, allleges Giametteo harassed the employee in 2021 and...
Recently, a former San Diego State University employee sued the school for employment discrimination based on her race and religion. The plaintiff worked for SDSU for about five years, during which she alleges she was subjected to illegal comments about being a...
Tesla is facing another lawsuit alleging racial harassment at one of its California plants. The suit was filed by Kaylen Barker, a Black lesbian woman and former employee at Tesla's factory in Lathrop, California, where Barker inspected brakes. She says she was...
It's no secret that women and people of color continue to face barriers in the tech industry. Alphabet Inc – better known as Google – has recently drawn scrutiny for alleged mistreatment of Black women employees. According to a recent Reuters report, the California...
Earlier this month, a federal jury told Tesla to pay a former Black contractor, Owen Diaz, $137 million for racial harassment. $6.9 million of the award is for emotional distress, and $130 million is for punitive damages. One of Diaz’s lawyers, Larry Organ, said he...
Earlier this month, SB 331, more popularly known as the “Silenced No More Act,” passed the California state legislature. The bill will now proceed to Governor Gavin Newsom to be signed into law. If signed, the law will go into effect at the beginning of 2022,...
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community has experienced a dramatic surge in harassment and violence. The Atlanta shootings that claimed the lives of eight individuals (six of whom were Asian women) at Asian-owned...
Throughout the United States, federal law prohibits workplace discrimination based on an employee’s race or characteristics associated with their race. However, we continue to see instances of racial discrimination throughout all stages in the employment cycle such as...
The Gallop Center on Black Voices polled more than 8,000 employees to identify which race/ethnicity is suffering from the highest rates of workplace discrimination. Surveyed employees were a mix of black, white, and Hispanic workers, who fell across a wide age,...
If you hear a racist-sounding remark at work, you might want to report it to human resources. HR is on the front line when it comes to reports of racial discrimination and harassment. So, you might expect them to know whether racism is a problem at your workplace. Yet...
