A study recently published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that female physicians at some of the nation’s most prominent public medical schools earn less a year on average than their male colleagues. After controlling for nine factors that drive income the industry, researchers found that female physicians at 24 public medical schools...
El Azteca Restaurants in Wisconsin to Pay Back Wages and Overtime Pay
In early July, a federal judge in Green Bay, Wis. ordered a group of local Mexican restaurants to pay workers a large sum of money for unpaid minimum wage and overtime compensation. The owners, Marco Montalvo, Fe Montalvo and Sergio Jimenez will pay 129 current and former employees a total of $700,000, including $350,000 in...
EEOC Reports – Sexual Harassment still a Big Problem at U.S. Employers
A 14 month EEOC workplace harassment taskforce study provided a quite troubling report. According to the workplace harassment statistics cited in the report, nearly a third of approximately 90,000 charges the EEOC receives each year include an allegation of workplace harassment. You may recall, In recent news, former Fox anchor, Gretchen Carlson, filed a lawsuit...
Former Fox News Host Sues for Sexual Harassment
If you have ever watched Gretchen Carlson and co-hosts on Fox and Friends, a flagship morning show, you will have witnessed a woman who played the part of what the news network believes was first and foremost about the attractiveness and sex appeal of its on-air female talent. She played the role of the archetypal...
Google Makes Slow Progress – Diversity Still Lagging
Google made slow progress last year in its mission to diversify its workforce. Google is made up largely of white and Asian men. The company addressed the gender and racial imbalance in the tech industry by disclosing the demographics of its workforce about two years ago. Nancy Lee, VP of People Operations said in a...