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Monthly Archives: October 2011
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), labor unions and advocates for the unemployed are among the groups pushing for state laws and federal policies to bar pre-employment credit checks, Time reported on October 11, 2011. California became the seventh state in the nation to ban pre-employment credit checks when Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 22 into law on October 10, 2011. Business, industry trade groups and large credit bureaus argue that credit histories are an important tool for employers to use and the new law set to take effect on January 1, 2012, could make employers less willing to hire. Time noted that a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 60% of employers do credit checks for at least some positions. There are numerous flaws with pre-employment credit checks, such as reports failing to provide sufficient context and reports often being inaccurate. Furthermore, as…
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Taco Bell will likely have to make improvements to its 220 restaurants in California after a federal judge ruled the company violated federal and California laws protecting the disabled from discrimination, the Associated Press reported on October 7, 2011. U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland is now deciding what improvements the company must make and how much the fast-food chain must pay the thousands of customers represented in the lawsuit who use wheelchairs and scooters. The class-action lawsuit filed by disabled customers in December 2002 alleged Taco Bell’s California stores failed to provide proper handicap parking, wheelchair accessible tables and restrooms and other accommodations for the disabled that are required by state and federal laws, according to the AP. Taco Bell argued that it had fixed many of the alleged violations over the last nine years, including complying with a 2007 order from the judge to fix problems with…
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For the second consecutive year, California leads the nation in anti-Semitic incidents. The LAist reported on October 5, 2011, that the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) 2010 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents found anti-Jewish vandalism, harassment and physical assault reports rose 8 percent in the state and from 2009 to 2010, reports increased from 275 to 297. The LAist also noted that during the same time frame, incidents rose across the nation from 1,211 to 1,239. Amanda Susskind, ADL’s Pacific Southwest regional director noted that while hate crimes as a whole are down in California, crimes against Jews are up. According to the most recent Hate Crime Report of the L.A. County Commission on Human Relations, anti-Jewish hate crimes in Los Angeles alone accounted for one of five total hate crimes and 88 percent of hate crimes targeting religious groups. Do these findings surprise you? Have you been the victim of anti-Jewish discrimination…
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A federal judge condemned the Fullerton Police Department for allowing a police officer to return to patrol after he was accused of groping women, the Los Angeles Times reported on October 3, 2011. A department spokesman told the Times that Officer Albert Rincon is now on administrative leave, but the case against him began in 2008 when Kari Bode and Gina Nastasi accused Rincon of groping them and exposing their breasts. They sued the department in 2009 and investigations by the city and district attorney’s office revealed similar accusations from a total of seven women, the Times reported. “At the end of the day, the city put Rincon back onto the streets to continue arresting women despite a pattern of sexual harassment allegations,” U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford wrote in a strongly worded opinion. “A reasonable juror could conclude based on these facts, that the city simply did not care…
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