M. Slavin & Sons, the Brownsville-based fish distributor that was slapped with a massive federal lawsuit accusing them of subjecting black employees to a torrent of racist, sexual harassment in 2009 has finally settled, to the tune of $900,000. more ›

A federal judge has thrown out the class action lawsuit accusing Bloomberg LP of discriminating against women. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that the financial and media service firm owned by Mayor Bloomberg engaged in a "a pattern or practice of demoting and reducing the pay of female employees after they announced their pregnancies and after they took maternity leave," but Judge Loretta Preska wrote today that there wasn't enough evidence, "'J'accuse!' is not enough in court. Evidence is required." more ›

A Bronx teacher is suing the city's Department of Education, claiming that the principal of her school forced her to perform tasks that caused the stillbirth of her baby. Rachel Wolff, a tenured teacher at PS 246, believes that principal Beverly Miller "contributed to an environment where having a successful pregnancy became exceedingly difficult," her lawyer tells the Post. Because Wolff's pregnancy was considered "high risk," chores that involved "climbing flights of stairs, hauling heavy furniture, and cleaning the library" negatively affected Wolff's ability to bear a healthy child. The NIH classifies factors for high risk pregnancies as "young or old maternal age, being underweight or overweight, having problems in previous pregnancies," and having "pre-existing health conditions" like HIV, high blood pressure or diabetes. more ›

Two years ago, Mayor Bloomberg's company, Bloomberg LP, was sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for "a pattern or practice of demoting and reducing the pay of female employees after they announced their pregnancies and after they took maternity leave" because of things like former CEO Lex Fenwick allegedly saying, "I'm not having any pregnant bitches work for me." While the discrimination allegedly occurred after he became mayor, Bloomberg himself was deposed in 2009 because he does own the company. Now details from the deposition have been released, and the mayor is described as "patronizing," "sarcastic," "unsympathetic" and irritable as well as "snippy" and a "real charmer." more ›

A federal discrimination complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that the NYPD's School Safety Division is a hotbed of sex and sexual harassment. The Post reports that the federal complaint paints a portrait of a "raunchy, sexually charged environment where some female agents regularly engage in down-and-dirty noontime affairs with bosses inside department vehicles -- and then boast about their sleazy shenanigans to co-workers." And what's more, the complaint alleges that women who would have sex with their bosses got perks like "chauffeured drives to and from their homes, overtime, promotions -- and even cash gifts"—and women who didn't want to put out were fired. more ›

After posting about the mommy-tracking lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, we wondered where things stood with the Bloomberg LP discrimination suit, where a number of employees accused the media information services company of bias against employees who took maternity leave. Now we know: Three more plaintiffs have joined the class-action lawsuit. more ›

Today the City formally rejected an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission panel's finding of discrimination against former Arabic-English school principal Debbie Almontaser. The founder and principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn was asked to step down after making remarks about the word "intifada," but a lawyer for the city called the EEOC's determination "totally unfounded." According to the AP the city claims she resigned voluntarily. Still, The News reports that Almontaser supporters are urging the Justice Department to sue, based on the EEOC's determination that "race, religion, and national origin," motivated her ousting. more ›

Just days after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decided the Education Department discriminated when it forced the ex-principal of an English-Arabic academy to resign, another school head has stepped down. Meanwhile, the school's founder and former principal Debbie Almontaser spoke with NY1 (video here) telling the station it shook her to the core "that people I worked with and trusted were easily influenced with right wing propaganda, and for them to second guess and have a knee jerk reaction was quite devastating." more ›

Inside sources suggest that it's not naps or kisses that are putting our nation's airspace in danger, but a "toxic environment" created by federal air marshals. More than 85 current or former sky cops in nearly all of the country's field offices have reported distractions from their anti-terror mission, in the form of "intimidation, retaliation, discrimination against women, minorities, the disabled [and] gays." Morale is low, and the agency is also dangerously understaffed. more ›

The owners and managers of M. Slavin & Sons' fish distribution center in Brownsville have been hit with a federal lawsuit accusing them of subjecting black employees to a torrent of racist, sexual harassment. According to the suit, filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the misconduct included "groping their buttocks, putting fish hooks into their buttocks and unnecessarily rubbing their bodies into the employees when passing them by... One owner used the term 'n----r' and another manager made comments such as 'African b-----d' and 'Let me see you run like you are in Africa.'" Oh, and then there were bestiality "jokes." more ›

Last September three women filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg’s company, Bloomberg LP, accusing Bloomberg of being personally responsible for creating a "systemic, top-down culture of discrimination," and accusing Bloomberg LP CEO Lex Fenwick of firing two pregnant employees with this gangsta riposte: “I'm not having any pregnant bitches working for me.” more ›