Instead of addressing our concerns, our legitimate concerns instead, they turn toward investigating me. And I was instrumental in leading the group. So I think that clearly they were trying to chill [the] activity of workers and that should scare every worker across the country.
Grayner claims there was a serious conflict of interest between the DA's office and the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury that wasn't properly addressed in 2021 and 2022, the period immediately preceding her hire.
"I don't fully understand the reasons that I'm in the position I am in, but that is for a separate process for me to try to get to the bottom of."
The Catholic parishes argue that the nondiscrimination requirement forces them to choose between participating in a public benefit and adhering to their religious teachings about marriage and family.
The fast food industry does not have the best reputation when it comes to working conditions, with those who labor within it frequently faced with low pay, long hours, extreme stress, hazardous workplaces, and poor treatment from management.
Racial discrimination is illegal, and government contractors cannot evade the law by repackaging it as DEI. The Department launched the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative to root out this misconduct, hold offenders accountable, and end this practice for good.
Reports indicate that an initial inquiry, triggered by a complaint relating to religious practices, has brought to light disturbing allegations involving sexual harassment, rape, and attempts at forced religious conversion of female employees by certain individuals in supervisory roles.
For decades, work was designed around a fiction, that of the 'neutral' worker, an abstract individual assumed to be fully available, consistent, rational, and unaffected by bodily constraints. But this neutrality was never real.
The jury found that Ticketmaster overcharged consumers $1.72 per ticket. Live Nation argues the up to $280 million it pledged in its settlement with the Justice Department and a handful of states will ultimately prove larger than the sum based on the jury award.
Lawyers have argued that an alleged "informal and somewhat vulgar working environment" at tech giant Apple meant a worker should not have been sacked after a colleague complained about him talking about "tramps" and "whores" in Portuguese.
