Category: WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION

Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TODAY Published 9:32 p.m. ET Sept. 18, 2020 | Updated 10:30 p.m. ET Sept. 18, 2020Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a lifelong pioneer for gender equality and only the second woman to serve on the nation’s highest court. Hers was an enormous life, full of glass-ceiling-shattering accomplishments, impassioned dissents and pop culture dominance. When…

Barbara McQuade, Opinion columnist Published 11:57 p.m. ET Sept. 18, 2020 | Updated 12:09 a.m. ET Sept. 19, 2020We take Ginsburg’s successes for granted now, but she was the one who brought to the Supreme Court the perspective of women’s rights.She was not the first woman justice, but she was the first voice for women’s…

CLOSE LGBTQ rights have come a long way in the U.S. But the community still faces threats in the form of legalization, discrimination and even violence. USA TODAYWASHINGTON – When the Supreme Court ruled in June that a law barring sex discrimination in employment applies to gay, lesbian and transgender workers, dissenting Associate Justice Samuel Alito…

Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press Published 12:27 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2020 | Updated 1:56 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2020CLOSE In this June 2018 interview, Bill Ford Jr. talks about Ford buying the Michigan Central Station and his plans for its future. Detroit Free PressFord Motor Company alerted its employees early Wednesday during a weekly…

Aimee Picchi, Special to USA TODAY Published 5:00 a.m. ET Aug. 31, 2020 CLOSE JP Morgan Chase has agreed to pay the biggest recorded settlement in a US parental leave discrimination case. Veuer’s Chandra Lanier has the story. Buzz60Corporate America has a gender problem when it comes to parental leave, with a new study finding…

Richard Wolf, USA TODAY Published 2:19 p.m. ET Aug. 26, 2020 CLOSE After years of fighting with his Virginia high school, transgender student Gavin Grim finally gets the ruling he was hoping for. USA TODAYA federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Constitution and federal law allows a transgender high school student who identifies as…

CLOSE People share their feelings as they pay their respects to the life of George Floyd outside his family’s memorial service in Minneapolis. USA TODAYChivona Newsome remembers the lonely Black Lives Matter protests for Eric Garner in 2015 attended by only a dozen or so people. She spent five years pleading for lawmakers in New York…

CLOSE Communities of color are dying at higher rates from the novel coronavirus than white Americans. Here’s how structural inequities play a role. USA TODAYRaquetta Dotley looks out of her South Chattanooga apartment and sighs as she thinks about her small neighborhood park shoehorned in next to a cellulose plant and a biofuels factory that processes used grease and lard…

Tammy Duckworth, Opinion contributor Published 12:00 a.m. ET Aug. 20, 2020 Thirty years ago, the Senate said people like me mattered. Today, some of those same Republicans declare war on the disability community.I gathered my notes, took a sip of water and spoke out in the Senate chamber this month on behalf of the millions of…

Robert Kabel, Opinion contributor Published 4:00 a.m. ET Aug. 20, 2020 | Updated 9:14 a.m. ET Aug. 20, 2020CLOSE LGBTQ rights have come a long way in the U.S. But the community still faces threats in the form of legalization, discrimination and even violence. USA TODAYWhile Democrats take the lesbian and gay community for granted,…