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Hostile work environment complaints filed against Sutter Health

From eBossWatch Blog
December 24, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Former employees of Sacramento-based Sutter Health have filed discrimination complaints with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) accusing their supervisor, ... (more)

Seven black workers sue Dr Pepper Snapple for racial discrimination

From eBossWatch Blog
December 23, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Last week seven black employees of the Northlake, IL Dr Pepper Snapple warehouse filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the company for failing to stop the harassment, which ... (more)

Aaron Rents settles EEOC sexual harassment lawsuit

From eBossWatch Blog
December 23, 2009 at 2:55 pm
The ‘rent-to-own’ retail chain Aaron Rents Inc. settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a young woman ... (more)

The eBossWatch Best Bosses of 2009

From
December 22, 2009 at 2:56 pm

In a year that has been characterized by layoffs, unemployment, instability and tension in the workplace, eBossWatch is excited to announce the Best Bosses of 2009.  The actions

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Texas oilfield service company pays $60,000 to settle race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit

From eBossWatch Blog
December 21, 2009 at 3:27 pm
In September, the EEOC announced that an oilfield service company based in Alice, Texas as agreed to pay $60,000 to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit. The Equal ... (more)

Bahama Breeze pays $1.3 million to settle racial harassment lawsuit

From eBossWatch Blog
December 19, 2009 at 9:30 am
The Bahama Breeze restaurant chain agreed to settle an EEOC racial harassment lawsuit filed on behalf of 37 black workers at the Bahama Breeze restaurant in Beachwood, Ohio. ... (more)

Jefferson County administrator fired following discrimination lawsuits

From eBossWatch Blog
December 15, 2009 at 3:48 am
The three commissioners of Colorado’s Jefferson County unanimously voted to fire county admininstrator Jim Moore after he and the county were sued for age- and sex-discrimination ... (more)

Brigham Hospital surgeon quits after being sued for sex discrimination

From eBossWatch Blog
December 15, 2009 at 3:10 am
Dr. Arthur Day, chairman of the neurosurgery department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has announced that he will resign his position at the end of the month. In December ... (more)

Phoenix car dealers pay $500,000 to settle EEOC sexual harassment lawsuit

From eBossWatch Blog
December 11, 2009 at 5:43 am
Phoenix-based car dealerships Bell Road Kia and Bell Road Automall have agreed to pay $500,000 to five former employees to settle a racial and sexual harassment lawsuit filed by ... (more)

The EEOC sues M. Slavin & Sons fish market for ‘horrendous’ male on male sexual harassment

From eBossWatch Blog
December 9, 2009 at 10:02 am
M. Slavin & Sons The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against M. Slavin & Sons, a fish market and retailer based in Brooklyn, for creating a hostile ... (more)

The eBossWatch Worst Bosses of 2009

From eBossWatch Blog
December 7, 2009 at 4:22 pm
In the first ever contest of its kind, eBossWatch assembled a panel of workplace experts who selected and ranked the 25 Worst Bosses of 2009 from across the country and abroad. ... (more)

What it’s like to work for a celebrity boss

From eBossWatch Blog
December 7, 2009 at 5:53 am
Ever wondered what it’s like working for a well-known celebrity?  Curious about how Ben Stiller, Paris Hilton, and Courtney Love stack up as bosses? Minyanville.com has ... (more)

Woman sues dentist boss for sexual harassment

From
December 6, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Dr. Richard L. Howard, a dentist at Howard & Howard, DDS, is being sued by a former dental assistant named Tanya Stone, who claims to have been subjected to sexual harassment,

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Washington State Community College president accused of being a bully

From eBossWatch Blog
December 4, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Charlotte Hatfield Two former employees at Washington State Community College said that the college’s president, Charlotte Hatfield, has bullied employees in an “intimidating” ... (more)

BSA program pays you to ‘nail your boss’

From
December 3, 2009 at 6:56 pm

The Business Software Alliance has launched a campaign to fight software piracy in London that is offering about $32,000 to people who alert the BSA when their bosses use pirated

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Two women accuse State Farm boss of sexual harassment, assault, and defamation

From eBossWatch Blog
December 2, 2009 at 5:28 am
Obie Sorrell Kristi Mitchell and Veronica Cobb have filed a lawsuit against their supervisor, Obie Sorrell, a State Farm insurance agent based in Baltimore.  The women have accused ... (more)

UK boss who advocates great workplaces found guilty of workplace bullying

From
December 2, 2009 at 4:44 am

Glenda Stone
The Central London Employment Tribunal ordred Glenda Stone to compensate several former employees after the tribunal found that Stone had bullied them in a “dictatorial

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Wisconsin IHOP ordered to pay $105,000 to sexual harassment victims

From eBossWatch Blog
November 30, 2009 at 5:55 pm
A federal jury has ordered the former owners of the IHOP restaurant in Racine, Wisconsin, to pay two former waitresses $105,000 in punitive damages for having been sexually harassed ... (more)

Mark Lowe sent female intern ‘vile sexual email’ in Latin

From eBossWatch Blog
November 27, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Earlier this month, eBossWatch reported about the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a female employee against UK-based Nomus Capital and its owner, Mark Lowe.  Among the allegations ... (more)

Media company GDS International sued for sex and religious discrimination

From eBossWatch Blog
November 26, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Lobna Abdelrehim, a 26-year-old Egyptian-American employee at GDS International, has filed a lawsuit against the media company alleging gender and religious discrimination and ... (more)

Employee files lawsuit after bosses ridicule her for celebrating Thanksgiving

From eBossWatch Blog
November 25, 2009 at 5:29 am
Promila Awasthi, an Indian-born American citizen who works at Infosys as a computer consultant, filed a lawsuit on Monday that accuses her bosses of subjecting her to a hostile ... (more)

Virginia law firm sued for discrimination and sexual harassment following “cucumber incident”

From eBossWatch Blog
November 24, 2009 at 11:09 am
A Vietnamese former employee at Williams Mullen, a large law firm based in Richmond, Virginia, has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against the firm, accusing it of discrimination ... (more)

CEO Doctor at Munster’s Medical Specialists sued for sexual harassment

From eBossWatch Blog
November 24, 2009 at 5:46 am
Sally Gibbs, former CEO of Munster’s Medical Specialists Centers of Indiana, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company’s current CEO, Dr. Alex Stemer.  Gibbs ... (more)

Former Washington Times editor files discrimination complaint with EEOC

From eBossWatch Blog
November 22, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Richard Miniter, the former editorial page editor and vice president of opinion for the Washington Times, has filed a discrimination complaint with the EEOC against the newspaper. Miniter ... (more)

ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips accused of harassing 22-year-old assistant Brooke Hundley

From eBossWatch Blog
November 22, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Brooke Hundley, the 22-year-old former ESPN production assistant who was fired together with baseball analyst Steve Phillips after their affair became public in October, claims ... (more)