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Americans are rightly frustrated with the humanitarian and administrative crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and in our cities, as 30 years of band-aid “fixes” to a broken immigration system have collapsed under the weight of record human displacement around the globe and across the Americas. Recent polling indicates that Americans across party lines agree that […]
VERONA, VA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has entered into a conciliation agreement with Daikin Industries to resolve alleged race-based hiring discrimination affecting Black applicants at its Verona facility. Pursuant to the agreement, Daikin Industries will pay $100,000 in back wages and interest to 98 Black applicants. Daikin will also extend three job offers […]
Employer to pay $570K in back wages to 994 Asian, Black, multi-racial, white applicants DALLAS – The Nielsen Company US LLC, a global marketing research, data analytics and opinion-research company, will pay $570,000 in back wages and interest to resolve allegations of systemic race-based hiring discrimination in Dallas and San Antonio identified by the U.S. […]
WILMINGTON, DE – The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into a conciliation agreement with Navient Corp. to resolve alleged hiring discrimination at three of its facilities in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Texas. Headquartered in Wilmington, Navient services student loans for the U.S. Department of Education. The company’s current student loan contract ends December 2023. A compliance […]
NEWARK, N.J. – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) have secured a settlement agreement to resolve allegations that a home healthcare provider discriminated against a person with HIV. Comfort Hands Home Healthcare LLC (Comfort Hands) of […]
The Justice Department announced a settlement agreement today to resolve allegations that American Bank of Oklahoma engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by redlining in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The affected area includes the historically Black neighborhoods that were the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. This resolution is part of the department’s […]
A view of Montgomery College’s Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus. Montgomery College photo. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced an agreement Wednesday to resolve a sexual harassment case at Montgomery College. According to the Office of Civil Rights, a male professor at the Montgomery County community college required female students to remove […]
A contentious United States policy that has allowed authorities to turn away most asylum seekers at the border with Mexico has officially ended, as President Joe Biden’s administration readies for an expected influx of arrivals. The public health order known as Title 42, which formally expired at 11:59pm on Thursday (03:59 GMT on Friday), had […]
Intelligent Waves LLC will pay $435K in back pay, interest to affected applicants RESTON, VA – The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a technology solutions provider to resolve alleged systemic hiring discrimination against Black applicants at the company’s Reston headquarters. The agreement follows a routine investigation by the department’s Office of Federal Contract […]
ARLINGTON, Va. — On March 31, 2004, armed insurgents ambushed and killed four American civilian security contractors who were driving through the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Within hours of the attack, shocking images of the Americans’ desecrated bodies – burned, and hung from a bridge – were broadcast around the globe. When the horrific killings […]