City must pay $375,000 to settle gender-bias suit by police sergeant 
Published: February 7, 2012
Tags: gender discrimination, New York, police
The city of Syracuse, N.Y. has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle a gender-discrimination lawsuit filed in 2009 by a female officer of the Syracuse Police Department.
County told to pay $7.6 million for hospital retaliation
Published: December 15, 2011
Tags: gender discrimination, hospital, Illinois, racial discrimination, retaliation
Cook County, Ill. and its former chairman of pathology have been told to pay a physician $7.6 million for retaliating against her after she filed a federal lawsuit claiming racial and gender discrimination.
Employer liable for firing transgender worker
Published: December 8, 2011
Tags: civil rights, equal protection, gender discrimination, transgender, §1983
A government employer violated a transgender employee’s equal protection rights when it fired her upon learning that she would go forward with a sex change, the 11th Circuit has ruled.
California enacts slew of employment-related laws
Published: October 27, 2011
Tags: background checks, credit checks, E-verify, family leave, gender discrimination, Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, health insurance. GINA
California recently enacted a number of employment-related laws, including a requirement to provide health insurance during family leave and adding gender identification and genetic information as protected categories from discrimination.
Company to pay $550,000 in discrimination claim
Published: October 17, 2011
Tags: EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, gender discrimination
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Western Sugar Cooperative has agreed to pay $550,000 to settle a complaint that it discriminated against women.
Jury awards detectives $2.5 million
Published: October 6, 2011
Tags: California, gender discrimination, police, retaliation
A jury has awarded three veteran Los Angeles police detectives $2.5 million in a gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against their supervisors.
Food company to pay $2.25 million to settle sex discrimination suit
Published: September 21, 2011
Tags: gender discrimination, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, sex discrimination
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has said that Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle sex discrimination allegations at four of its plants.
Volunteer fire department may be sued under Title VII
Published: September 8, 2011
Tags: gender discrimination, hostile work environment, Title VII
A volunteer fire department may be sued for sexual discrimination under Title VII even though its paid employees numbered less that the statute’s 15-employee threshold, the 6th Circuit has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
Company to pay $540,000 to settle discrimination claims
Published: August 4, 2011
Tags: gender discrimination, Pennsylvania, racial discrimination
Federal officials say an Alcoa subsidiary in central Pennsylvania will pay more than $540,000 to settle claims that it discriminated against minorities and women.
Former policewoman awarded nearly $1 million for gender discrimination
Published: July 29, 2011
Tags: California, gender discrimination, police
A woman who was formerly a Los Angeles Airport police lieutenant has been awarded nearly $1 million in a gender discrimination case by a jury.
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