Articles about “discrimination”
Mets Exec Claims She Was Discriminated Against For Getting Pregnant Out Of Wedlock
Sigh, the Mets: when they're not busy offending American Indian groups, they're probably making little children weep (and/or alienating their best player). The latest embarrassment for the team: a former senior vice president for ticket sales...
Macy's Will Pay $650,000 For Racially Profiling NYC Customers
Outside Macy's in Herald Square (Getty Images) The retail giant Macy's has agreed to a series of reforms, as well as a $650,000 settlement, to address complaints of racial profiling at its Herald Square location. New...
LI Company Allegedly Forced Workers To Pray To Onionhead Religion, Say "I Love You" To Managers
Screenshot The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against a Long Island company after several employees complained that superiors forced them to pray, thank God for having jobs, and say "I love you"...
Dateline Producer Says Boss Forced Her To Respond To Sex Ads
A lawsuit filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday by a former Dateline NBC reporter alleges that she was pressured by her superior to act as a "sexual decoy" by responding to sex advertisements online. 33-year-old...
De Blasio Settles FDNY Racial Discrimination Suit For $98 Million
(Horatio Baltz / Flickr) Ending a long legal saga that began back in 2005, the de Blasio administration has agreed to pay approximately $98 million in back pay, fringe benefits and interest to FDNY applicants who...
Two Men Claim Homophobic McDonald's Employee Refused To Serve Them
specimenlife's flickr It's hard enough justifying a trip to McDonald's when the McRibs are sautéed in piglet tears—it's even harder when it's super sized with a side of rampant homophobia. Two Manhattan men are suing McDonald's...
Family Refuses To Tip NJ Waitress Because She's Gay
Earlier this week, a server at a restaurant in Bridgewater, NJ looked at a check to see that the family she had just served completely stiffed her on the tip. And the awful thing was the reason...
Deaf Starbucks Customers Accuse Employees Of Humiliation & Discrimination
The Astor Place Starbucks (Unlisted Sightings on Flickr) A group of Starbucks customers, most of them deaf, are suing the company for allegedly discriminating against them at two Manhattan locations. One plaintiff, Alan Roth, says that...
Midtown Club Fined $20K For Discriminating Against Non-Koreans
Crowd at Circle (via Yelp) It's not unusual for a city nightclub to have a tough door policy—sneakers are a no, hot chicks, Justin Bieber a go—but one venue just got fined major bucks for being...
Minority Groups: NYC Is Letting Hasids Shut Us Out Of Brooklyn Housing
(Screenshot via Meg Kelly's trailer for The Broadway Triangle) The battle over affordable housing on the border of Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy that has dragged out for decades exploded again this week as community groups and politicians...
Owners Of British Pub Fight For Right To Hire Brits If They Jolly Well Please
via Facebook Welsh-focused bar Longbow Pub got into hot water last year after posting a Craiglist job ad stating that “Being British definitely works in your favor," if you're applying for a bartending position. This didn't...
NYPD Warned Not To Discriminate Against Red Headed Cops
We've heard a lot about the sorrow of red headed strangers and the seductiveness of red headed women, but we've never heard of the plight of red headed cops until now. According to the Post, NYPD...
Employees Claim DUMBO's River Cafe Is Very Anti-Semitic
ecgroom's flickr A current and former employee of DUMBO's River Cafe have lobbed some damning accusations at the restaurant in the NY Post today. According to the employees, the River Cafe actively discriminates against orthodox Jews...
Workers Claim Local Coca Cola Plants Are Racist Cesspools
Joanna Pan's flickr Working in one of greater New York's two Coca Cola plants may not be such a Sesame Street-esque utopia for minority employees: Sondra Walker, a Coca Cola merchandiser, claims she was referred to...
FDNY's Failure To Hire Minorities Could Cost Taxpayers $128 Million In Back Wages
(Flickr User Horatio Baltz) A federal judge has ordered the city to pay an estimated $128 million in back wages to minorities who applied to be firefighters with the FDNY, which is still 97 percent white...
"Terrible" CT Police Chief Resigns, Others Want "I Might Have Tacos" Mayor Out, Too
Chief Gallo, via My Fox Connecticut With four police officers charged with violating the civil rights of Latino community members, through harassment, intimidation and physical violence, East Haven police chief Len Gallo has stepped down effective...
Brooklyn Fish Market Settles Racist Sexual Harassment Suit For $900K
"Eat Fish, Live Longer" (Flickr user Tales of a Flaneur) 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...
B&H; Photo Sued Again For Discriminating Against Employees
(Flickr User TheeErin) For the third time in five years, B&H; Photo and Video is being sued by employees who say the company has denied them promotions because of race or gender. Bronx residents Luis Santana...
Cook Suing Midtown Hotel For $35 Million After Two Lame, Racist KKK "Jokes"
Ohhhh Shutterstock A cook at the Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown is suing the boutique inn for $35 million dollars after two employees dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members and taunted him in two separate...
Scott Stringer Wants To Bar Discriminating Against Unemployed
"HAHA he wants a job but he doesn't even have a job!" (AP) Besides the absence of baby pigeons, one of life's great mysteries is that in many cases you need to be gainfully employed so...
Former Detective Sues NYPD For Discrimination Against Latinos
Steve Broer / Shutterstock A new lawsuit claims that the NYPD let Hispanic cops languish. Former detective Joseph Rivera, who worked the auto crimes division for over ten year is suing the NYPD for only promoting...
Chinese Kitchen Crew Says Le Colonial Restaurant Made Them Eat In Bathroom
Le Colonial's dining room A group of Chinese employees who were fired from swank Midtown French-Vietnamese restaurant Le Colonial are suing their former employer for discrimination and retaliation, alleging that their bosses forced them into a...
Starbucks Settles Dwarfism Discrimination Lawsuit For $75K
Starbucks is settling a discrimination lawsuit for $75,000 with a Texas woman who was fired because of her short stature due to dwarfism. Elsa Sallard claimed in an EEOC filing that she offered to use a...
Judge Dismisses Bloomberg LP Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit
Mayor Bloomberg (NYC Mayor's Office) 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...
FDNY Captain: Fire Department Is Filled With Racism
© SeanPavonePhoto - Fotolia.com Testimony during a special bench trial to determine methods to improve minority recruiting at the FDNY has detailed numerous instances of racism, one occurring a short time after the events of September...
Yarmulke-Wearing Italian-American Sues Over Alleged Workplace Ridicule
(GoRun26's flickr). In a city as big as New York, discrimination suits are a dime a dozen. But every once in a while one pops up that causes a person to stop and go "huh." This...
Ex-NBC Employee Sues Over Creepy Racist Native American Doll "Jokes"
A former NBC studio technician has filed a lawsuit against the network, claiming that co-workers hatefully insulted his Native American heritage by displaying a stereotypical Indian doll on a noose and calling it his daughter. As...
Lawsuit Blasts FDNY For Hiring Cops Who Shot Amadou Diallo, Rejecting Black Applicants
(Phil Davis NY's Flickr) A group of black firefighters are back in federal court this week for the next stage in the long-running lawsuit against the FDNY, which they accuse of discriminatory hiring practices. Last year,...
230 Fifth Owner Fighting Club's $500M Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
Photo via 230 Fifth's website Flatiron bar and lounge 230 Fifth (you may recall its rooftop bar as the host of Kobayashi's controversial solo hotdog eating contest on July 4) is at the center of a...
LI Substitute Teacher Claims He Was Fired "Due To His Italian Ethnicity"
Was it the way he ate his cannoli in the cafeteria? A Long Island substitute teacher has filed a federal discrimination complaint after he claims he was fired because of a rumor that "he was a...