Criminal Records and Arrest Discrimination
In certain instances, the law prohibits an employer from making hiring decisions based on a job applicant’s criminal history (or the lack thereof) There...
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Insights on Complex Legal Challenges
Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.
Violations of the Equal Pay Act
On June 10th 1963, President John F Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, to prohibit discrimination “on account of sex in the...
Read More ›Employee or Applicant Protection Against Retaliation
“Retaliation” in the workplace constitutes of firing, demoting, or harassing workers or applicants because they have complained about employment discrimination based on age, color,...
Read More ›NYPD v. Police Officer Anthony Minoia
On or about January 13, 2010, the Department Advocate’s Office charged Police Officer Anthony Minoia with the following allegations of misconduct: Police Officer Anthony...
Read More ›NYPD Reforms Interacting With the TGNC Community
The LGBT Pride Month is drawing to a close but New York City will continue its observance of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender citizens’...
Read More ›The Zadroga Act: Its Impact on First Responders and Survivors
In January 2011, President Barack Obama signed HR 847 (titled the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010) that provides for...
Read More ›The State of New York’s LGBT Community
For the fourth consecutive year, President Barack Obama has declared June the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month”: the 30-day period for pondering...
Read More ›The Gay-Straight Alliance
The lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has come to be identified with “queer” people and with the HIV-affected. Thus the lengthened initialism,...
Read More ›Hempstead Pays $545k to Settle ‘Hangman’s Noose’ Case
New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., announces that a settlement has been reached between the parties...
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