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Y’all don’t actually need to put so much effort into your DNIs or whatever. Just say that your blog complies with the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. That’s basically what you’re putting in there anyway.

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I’ve had a few days to think about what’s going on, and I feel like I need to speak up. I want to talk about protests and riots; those things that are being condemned right now to such an extent that not only are national guardsman being sicced on them, now we’re seeing unidentified mercenaries also being brought into the situation. I’m probably going to piss some people off by saying this, and to that I can only say that we will have to agree to disagree; I know that I can’t change minds that aren’t interested in being changed.

In 1909, the women of the New York shirtwaist factories led a general strike that would come to be known as the Uprising of the 20,000. They sought shorter hours, better pay, and the right to form unions. In response, the owners of the companies they were working for paid prostitutes and thugs to attack the strikers; at best, the police allowed these abuses and did nothing. At worst, they assisted in the attacks. One year later, the failure to improve working conditions for these women would end in the tragedy of the Triangle Fire, a blaze that killed 146 of the women working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. This tragedy, and the legacy of the Uprising of the 20,000, would see the enactment of sweeping reforms to New York’s labor laws, laws that would be enacted on a national level when reform leader Francis Perkins became FDR’s secretary of labor- the first woman to serve on the cabinet.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. would give his historic I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington. This gathering of an estimated 300,000 people on the Washington Mall was precipitated by the cruel Jim Crow Laws and the “separate but equal” Plessy VS. Ferguson supreme court ruling that permitted segregation of facilities on the basis of race. This led to such egregious situations as having two separate water fountains in one place, one labelled for whites and one labelled for blacks. Though the Jim Crow laws would be repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in response to the March on Washington, this act was poorly enforced and black citizens were often obstructed from being able to act on their new rights by discriminatory state laws or groups of white supremacists taking matters into their own hands. Two years later, the Selma to Montgomery marches would push the movement still further… but not without significant pushback. On March 7, 1965, police attacked the unarmed marchers with tear gas and billy clubs, an event that would come to be known as Bloody Sunday. The night after a second march, civil rights activist and minister James Reeb was beaten and murdered by a group of whites. This murder and the events of Bloody Sunday spurred multiple riots and demands for protection of the protesters and an answer to their calls for enforcement of their rights. This would ultimately lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village. Though paid off by the mafia who owned the bar to only raid during off-peak times, this particular night they showed up when it was full of people. Homosexuality was illegal at the time, and the police would force everyone to leave during these raids, and anyone who was dressed as a woman was brought by a female officer into the restrooms to check their genitalia, and if they were perceived as male, they were arrested. Physical violence against those who failed to comply or didn’t comply fast enough was common. That night, the patrons of the bar resisted the police, unifying together in an event that would come to be known as the Stonewall Riots- throwing bricks and bottles at the police, ripping out a parking meter as a makeshift battering ram when the police barricaded themselves inside the bar, and chasing them in circles around the narrow streets of Greenwich Village while drag queens formed a jeering rockettes kick-line. One year later, participants in the riot led what would become the very first Gay Pride March, and today Pride Parades are still held on the anniversary of the riots.

And this is just a small sampling. Like it or not, protest is baked into our identity as Americans- and sometimes, protests become riots, because as we’ve seen over and over again, police brutality is also baked into America’s identity. When completely peaceful protesters are shot with pepper spray, gassed, shot with rubber bullets, have flash bangs thrown at them, and are physically beaten with riot shields, truncheons, and in the case of at least one Australian newsman, the officer’s fist, what do you expect is going to happen? Everyone, no matter how peaceable at the best of times, has a breaking point. It is entirely reasonable for people to fight back when they are being threatened.

Instead of condemning people for doing what millions before them have done, for being understandably angry that the men and women who are supposed to protect the peace and uphold justice are reenacting the same violence that we learn to condemn in our history lessons in school, let’s try for a little empathy. Let’s try to help champion the cause for which they fight. Stand behind them in opposing police brutality and advocating against systemic racism. It’s thanks to people much like them that you have a great many of the rights we now take for granted.

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“Over the past year I started seriously worrying about the Equality Act, but when I went to the Internet to try and find out what exactly the legislation included, I discovered that the Equality Act involves a rewriting of federal Civil Rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If your eyes just glazed over at mention of such complicated and important legal documents, you are following in my footsteps. I quickly realized that, not being a lawyer, coming to an understanding of the Equality Act on my own would be too large an undertaking. I didn’t even know how to go about finding a copy of the current bill! There was simply no way I had the time or enough motivation to overcome these obstacles. My worries about the Equality Act multiplied, but all I could do was wait and hope that other U.S. feminists would take the Equality Act on. And, thank the goddess for Feminists in Struggle and their legal team, we now have the ‘Proposed Model U.S. Equality Act Incorporating Feminist Amendments,’ a detailed and truly feminist rewrite of the Equality Act (hereafter referred to as the FIST feminist Equality Act).

And what a rewrite! I found it to be a fascinating document, even with all the (necessary) legal language. Tina Minkowitz, a member of the FIST legal team, explains that one of FIST’s primary aims was to ‘articulate a feminist position that addresses challenges to women’s political existence and rights, as a result of gender identity ideology.’ Despite all the discussions I’ve participated in about female erasure, I had not put it together before hearing Tina’s statement that our legal existence as women is at stake with the Equality Act. When the law ensures that gender identity trumps sex, transitioned males become women legally, and the legal category of women as biological females is disappeared. I was impressed at how the FIST authors were able to take essential ideas from radical feminist critiques of trans ideology, then hone those ideas down into simple premises that then became the bases of the FIST feminist Equality Act.

FIST Conjures Up an Equality Act That Lives Up To Its Name

Let’s look at one example of how FIST’s legal team transformed the Equality Act. The Senate bill explicitly defines sex to include gender identity and finds that discrimination can occur ‘on the basis of the sex, sexual orientation, gender identity … of an individual, as well as because of sex-based stereotypes’ and then goes on to say that each of these factors ‘is a form of sex discrimination.’ Here is where women are erased! Gender identity is made synonymous with sex and discrimination for both gender identity and sex are considered to be sex discrimination. Over and over again, when the Senate’s version of the Equality Act mentions ‘sex’ it uses the phrase ‘sex (including ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’).’ FIST points out that when ‘sex’ and ‘gender identity’ are defined as synonymous terms, this eliminates ‘female only spaces by allowing access based on gender identity.’ The Senate’s Equality Act explicitly states that there can be no female only private personal spaces: ‘[A]n individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual’s gender identity.’

FIST’s feminist Equality Act takes an entirely different approach that protects women, LGB, and transgender people by creating two new protected classes – sexual orientation and sex stereotypes. These are in addition to and separate from protections based on sex, allowing each of the three classes clear and uncomplicated protection. FIST eliminated all mention of gender identity from their document, but still addressed the legitimate claims of transgender people by providing protection from discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes. By focusing on sex stereotypes, gender non-conforming people who are not transgender, including Lesbians and gay men, are also protected when they do not comply with sex role norms (demands).”

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Texas, Biden administration trade lawsuits over hot-button issues

Texas and the Biden administration exchanged lawsuits on Thursday regarding the federal government’s coronavirus vaccine mandate and voting rights. 

“Biden just announced his plan to wield OSHA to mandate vaccines on private businesses,” Texas’ Republican Attorney General posted on Twitter Thursday. “And I’m announcing my plan to sue him once this illegal, unconstitutional regulation hits the Federal Register. Here comes another winning #Texas v. Biden law suit!”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, l, and Attorney General Ken Paxton hold a press conference to address a Texas federal court’s decision on the immigration lawsuit filed by 26 states challenging President Obama. Paxton was indicted Monday on three counts of securities fraud unrelated to his official duties. (Photo by Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is giving employers with more than 100 employees a Jan. 4 deadline to comply with President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and threatening thousands of dollars in fines for defiant businesses, according to a fact sheet released by the White House Thursday.

Also on Thursday, Biden’s Justice Department announced that it is suing Texas over an election integrity bill signed into law in September aimed at combating voter fraud. 

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“The U.S. Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas and the Texas Secretary of State over certain restrictive voting procedures imposed by Texas Senate Bill 1, which was signed into law in September 2021,” the DOJ statement read. “The United States’ complaint challenges provisions of Senate Bill 1 under Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act and Section 101 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP) (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP)

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Paxton responded to the lawsuit against Texas on Twitter pledging to the Biden administration that he will “see you in court.”

Texas and the Biden administration are also currently involved in a legal spat over abortion and the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week on Texas’ controversial newly enacted law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Anti-abortion demonstrators pray and protest outside of a Whole Women’s Health of North Texas, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, in McKinney, Texas. A federal judge did not say when he would rule following a nearly three-hour hearing in Austin during which abortion providers sought to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade) (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)

To date, Paxton has won or joined winning lawsuits against the Biden administration on border and energy policies. 

Paxton has sued the Biden administrations including in October when Texas filed a lawsuit to force the Biden administration to continue building a wall at the southern border that Congress had already appropriated money for.

In March, Texas sued Biden to reinstate a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline that was derailed by the Biden administration. Texas also sued Biden earlier this year over his administration’s pause on oil and gas drilling.

Fox News’ Michael Lee contributed to this report

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Hi! I was wondering if you knew of any scripts that could be used when contacting representatives? I want to call my senators about hr 620, but I have no idea what to say

I don’t have one that I’ve used personally (I’ve contacted my senators through other means and they’re both pretty vocally against the bill, thank god) but here’s one that was created by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund.

(This was created to be used with the House, but it works just as well for your senators.)

Their sample script reads:

“Hello, my name is [your name]. I’m a constituent from [your state], zip code [your zip code]. I am opposed to H.R. 620 and any change to the equal access protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I strongly encourage Representative [add last name] to oppose any reform efforts. Thank you.”

They then add some reasons you can add to the basic script if you want:

H.R. 620 would weaken the civil rights of people with disabilities, making it harder for us to use the same restrooms, shop at the same department stores, and eat at the same restaurants as our non-disabled friends, family members, and peers.

Disability rights are civil rights. The ADA is a civil rights law. H.R. 620 would not only rollback important parts of the ADA, it would pose risks for other civil rights laws as well (such as Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars public accommodations such as hotels, restaurants, and entertainment venues from discriminating based on race; Title III of the ADA was based on this law).

H.R. 620 would not solve the problems its supporters are claiming it would fix. It would not stop fraudulent lawsuits. State courts and state bar associations are already equipped to address those problems, in better ways, without denying anyone equal access, or their civil rights. They have been successfully shutting down those bad practices in many areas.

You can use any of these or make up one of your own. (My personal sticking point is the absurdly long waiting period and the low standards for improvement.) Even just registering your disapproval will help.

Remember! The most important part will be telling them that you are from their constituency and giving them your zip code. This will let them know you are really one of the voters that they represent – and a voter that could potentially vote them out one day. They often delete messages left by callers from outside their constituency, so make sure you’re contacting the right senator.

This website is a great guide on how to call your senators about this issue. It contains another sample script (though one that I think is a little less useful; it says it’s unacceptable to “make individuals with disabilities responsible for ensuring businesses comply with the ADA”, but we already have to do that, lmao) as well as information on who your senator is and how to call them.

Finally, thank you very much for calling your senator. It really, really does make a difference. Tumblr is great for spreading the word, but you can’t beat phone calls and in-person meetings/protests to get the attention of your representatives.

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October Crisis, 1970: Crackdown ignited by authorities’ fear of young people

Shut to three,000 Quebecers gathered on the Paul-Sauvé enviornment hours earlier than the invocation of the Battle Measures Act would ship Canadian troops onto the streets of the province and many individuals – a few of them on the enviornment rally — had been arrested in subsequent raids. Éditions du Septentrion, CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY

Within the years main as much as the October Disaster in Quebec in 1970, younger individuals in Western international locations had been engaged in a collection of ruthless battles. Civil unrest had damaged out in France in Could 1968, and in the US, demonstrations and riots in opposition to segregation and discrimination, in addition to the U.S. involvement within the Vietnam Battle had gained floor. All of it occurred in opposition to a backdrop of political assassinations, main social upheavals and a rush to independence of former colonies.

Québec was no exception in these years. Demonstrations generally was riots, such because the St-Jean-Baptiste Day parade in 1968. The actions of the Entrance de libération du Québec, a clandestine group generally generally known as the FLQ, turned bloody in 1963.

(Éditions du Septentrion)

Québec youth discovered themselves in turmoil in October 1970. “Certainly, it was younger individuals, primarily college students, who could be arrested as quickly because the Battle Measures Act was applied,” explains Éric Bédard, who has simply launched the second version of his ebook dedicated to the occasions of October 1970, Chronique d’une rebellion appréhendée.

Bédard is a historian, professor on the Université TÉLUQ distance studying establishment in Montréal and the creator of L’Histoire du Québec pour les Nuls. His new quantity on the October Disaster features a doc that had, till now, remained unpublished: a listing of individuals arrested within the Better Montréal Space inside hours of Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s federal authorities adoption of the Battle Measures Act on Oct. 16, 1970.

The Dialog spoke to professor Bédard concerning the October Disaster.

A Canadian Military soldier patrols a avenue in Montréal after the invocation of the Battle Measures Act. (AP Photograph)

The Dialog: In your ebook, you analyze the political actions of younger individuals who had been enrolled on the Université de Montréal, the newly created Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), in addition to Concordia College and McGill College. Who had been they?

Eric Bédard: To begin with, there have been lots of them. They had been a part of the Child Growth. There have been practically 80,000 of them in universities in 1969 and so they benefited from the democratization of upper schooling.

Probably the most politicized had been very interested in revolutionary concepts and infrequently noticed violence as a needed evil. Many of those younger individuals dreamed of remodeling establishments, liberal democracy and capitalism and equated the political awakening of Quebecers with that of individuals within the “Third World” preventing for his or her emancipation.

Others had been extra involved a couple of revolution in morals, a radical transformation of viewpoints. They needed to abolish the establishments inherited from the previous, reminiscent of marriage, the church and conventional colleges. It was the counter-culture, the psychedelic expertise.

That’s the background. The FLQ was based in 1963, one 12 months after the Évian Accords, and its very identify is clearly impressed by that of the Algerian revolutionaries: the FLN (Entrance de libération nationale. In the US, African People had been struggling for his or her civil rights and younger individuals had been very vocal of their opposition to the Vietnam conflict.

The Dialog: Have been the scholar actions organized?

Bédard: Only a few. There have been stormy debates between them. In 1964, the scholars based the Union générale des étudiants du Québec (UGEQ). It might turn out to be more and more politicized and would declare to be separatist. For them, it was not solely a matter of defending their members’ pursuits, as unions do, however of fixing society.

At McGill, in 1969, it went very far. After two or three referendums, college students joined the UGEQ and a few even supported the motion that might have turned McGill right into a francophone college. Issues had been additionally going badly at Concordia (then Sir George Williams College), the place Black college students revolted in opposition to a professor deemed racist and vandalized the pc centre.

This radicalization affected the scholar motion. Within the late 1960s, UGEQ itself was thought-about too bourgeois and hierarchical, and was scuttled in favour of involvement in several types of organizations, reminiscent of neighbourhood residents’ committees. Probably the most militant college students most popular to affiliate with employees and labourers. We discovered ourselves with out a big pupil affiliation in 1970.

The lawyer for the Entrance de libération du Québec, Robert Lemieux, addresses college students at l’Université de Montréal in 1970. A graduate of McGill College, Lemieux known as on college students to create a parallel energy, that of the Éditions du Septentrion, CC BY-NC-ND

The Dialog: Does the context during which the October 1970 kidnapping disaster befell, throughout all this turmoil, clarify the response of authorities, in your view?

Bédard: The authorities noticed what was occurring on the earth, they adopted the information. Two years earlier, France was paralyzed through the rebellion of Could 1968, which started with a pupil strike. A number of months earlier, in Could 1970, the Nationwide Guard intervened at Ohio’s Kent State College in an illustration in opposition to the Vietnam conflict and 4 college students had been killed. It created an unimaginable backlash, which I might evaluate to the one surrounding the killing of George Floyd within the spring.

The authorities right here had this in thoughts after the kidnapping of British diplomat James Cross and extra clearly after the kidnapping of Immigration, Labour and Manpower Minister Pierre Laporte.

(Editor’s notice: British Commerce Commissioner James Cross was seized by the FLQ in North America’s first political kidnapping on Oct. 5, 1970. Laporte, a provincial cupboard minister, was snatched by one other FLQ cell days afterward Oct. 10.)

In my readings, what comes up on a regular basis is the worry of dysfunction stemming from younger individuals, a younger inhabitants that can not be managed. It surpasses worry of the separatists for my part, at the least from the perspective of the forces of regulation and order. We should take into account that the scholar motion was very totally different from the commerce union motion, which had a number of many years of historical past behind it, with its traditions, its buildings, its assemblies, its elections and its acknowledged leaders. With younger individuals, there are not any interlocutors, not like in 2012, through the Maple Spring pupil protest. No spokespersons, no buildings.

As a substitute of calming the authorities, who may have concluded that this motion was disorganized and due to this fact innocent, it elevated their worry of a militant overheating on campuses. Perceived as a type of unpredictable beast, the youth impressed actual worry within the authorities.

The testimony of the Québec authorities’s lawyer, Robert Demers, could be very revealing. He recounted that on Oct. 15, 1970, just a few hours earlier than the Battle Measures Act was decreed, Premier Robert Bourassa met with the chiefs of the Montréal police and the Sûreté du Québec, the provincial power, on the Queen Elizabeth Lodge the place the federal government had decamped.

The police had been centered on just one factor: the scholar menace. They requested for particular powers as a result of, they stated, if the state of affairs spiralled uncontrolled, they’d be powerless to take care of it. They insisted they’d not have the ability to arrest everybody. That is the thesis of my ebook. To be able to perceive the origins of the Battle Measures Act, one should perceive this ambiance of worry related to the youth of the time.

At UQAM, a number of gatherings in assist of the FLQ’s goals had been held through the fall of 1970, notably to denounce the Battle Measures Act. Nonetheless, no pupil political power was capable of mobilize younger individuals. (Éditions du Septentrion), CC BY-NC-ND

The Dialog: And it was these younger individuals who had been the primary to be arrested as quickly because the Battle Measures Act was proclaimed?

Bedard: Sure, they had been primarily younger individuals. Final 12 months, I received my palms on a listing from the then-deputy lawyer common of Québec, Gilbert Morier, who would later turn out to be a choose. There are 263 names of individuals arrested within the Better Montréal Space (there have been 497 in all, in line with John Turner, then-federal minister of justice). I’ve the date of delivery for 220 of them: three-quarters are below 30 years outdated and 15 per cent are below 20 years outdated. They had been primarily those who had been focused, at the least those that had been engaged in so-called subversive actions.

The Battle Measures Act created a shock wave amongst these younger individuals. It was like pulling out a bazooka. However the loss of life of Pierre Laporte had a fair better impact, for my part.

Pierre Laporte’s widow and her two kids comply with the funeral procession on Oct. 20, 1970. The Canadian Press/Peter Bregg

The Dialog: Your analysis reveals that these younger individuals weren’t very harmful…

Bédard: Sure, certainly, nevertheless it’s simple to say that 50 years later and I insist on that as a result of it’s too simple to provide classes. I perceive the fog that enveloped the actors of the time and I actually have a sure sympathy for them. I perceive that they had been below lots of strain. However a rational and chilly evaluation ought to have protected them from this panicky worry of youth, which was then scattered in a myriad of small teams, torn and divided, even inside the FLQ. These younger individuals weren’t geared up to make a revolution.

Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau enters the Home of Commons in Ottawa on October 16, 1970, to advise members of Parliament of his causes for enacting the Battle Measures Act. The Canadian Press/Chuck Mitchell

The Dialog: Did Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau actually imagine in a large youth revolt?

Bédard: The archives recommend that he was hesitant as a result of he knew the historic implications of invoking that odious liberty-destroying regulation. Therefore the priority to acquire letters from Bourassa and the mayor of Montréal, Jean Drapeau, who stated they feared an “apprehended rebellion.” This hesitation is contradictory, nevertheless, as a result of however, since 1969, Pierre Elliott Trudeau had arrange a disaster committee and an entire safety equipment to maintain sovereigntist militants in examine. He needed to do intelligence work, to infiltrate the campuses.

The Dialog: What impression did these occasions have on this era?

Bédard: It was like going to sleep after a tough day. No extra partying, no extra innocence and no extra lyrical revolution. All of it ended when Pierre Laporte’s physique was discovered within the trunk of a automobile.

Éric Bédard is vice-president of the Lionel-Groulx Basis, which promotes Québec historical past.

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3 Employment Screening Trends to Know Before You Hire in 2019

​This is the first article in a two-part series. The next installment will examine how employers can ensure data security in the screening process and what to expect with forthcoming artificial intelligence technology.

Employers are ramping up their use of social media screening and real-time employee monitoring in 2019. And the demand for workers in a tight labor market will push more companies to consider applicants they may have once ignored: those with criminal records.

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Social Media Checks

Employers have shown increasing interest in screening candidates’ online presence.

In 2019, more background-check providers will offer online and social media searches as part of their suite of products, but employers must ensure that these searches protect candidate privacy and don’t run afoul of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or standards set by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

“Social media screening presents opportunities for recruiters to find candidates and to reduce risk, but at the same time, these searches can create a legal minefield of potential liability,” said Les Rosen, founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources, a background-screening firm in Novato, Calif.

Interest in social media screening has grown significantly over the last few years, said Bianca Lager, the president of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Social Intelligence Corp., a leading provider of social media screening reports. “We now see almost daily news stories of someone getting into trouble with their employer over what they’ve written online,” she said. “Hiring companies know they can’t get away with ignoring social media as part of the background-screening process any longer, but the DIY approach is incredibly troubling for candidates in terms of privacy, accuracy and discrimination.”

If HR professionals are conducting their own online searches on job candidates, they need to stop, said Montserrat Miller, an attorney with Arnall Golden Gregory, based in Atlanta. “The potential for a discrimination claim far outweighs the cost of adding a social media screening option from a vendor.”

Rosen said that employers should be wary of discovering too much information—or “TMI”—on social media. ” ‘TMI’ means by looking at [an applicant’s] social media site or perhaps a photo or something that they have blogged about, you are going to learn all sorts of things as an employer you don’t want to know and [that] legally cannot be the basis of a decision,” he said. Job applicants can sue employers for discrimination if they believe they were not hired due to protected characteristics covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

“Even the appearance of a decision not to hire someone based on a negative impression related to race, gender, religion, or other protected classes could subject [employers] to a discrimination lawsuit,” said Christine Cunneen, CEO of Providence, R.I.-based background-check company Hire Image.

Experts agree that if employers decide to screen an applicant through social media, the best way to reduce legal risk is by having a third-party vendor perform the search instead of doing it in-house. Background-check providers that perform social media screening must comply with the FCRA and produce accurate reports scrubbed of protected characteristics.

“Social media reports won’t show whether or not someone is Muslim or gay or a military veteran, to protect the employer from a discrimination claim,” Miller said. “They will only provide instances of actionable, offensive information, for example relating to criminal activity, violent behavior or making racist comments.”

Cunneen added that employers need to be careful not to violate candidate privacy. Social media screens should be drawn only from user-generated, publicly available information and not from third-party content or password-protected sites. “If the applicant’s social media settings are set to public, that information is open for anyone, including potential future employers, to review,” she said. “However, if their profile is set to private, the employer cannot try to bypass those settings without risking exposure to potential liability down the road.”

Continuous Monitoring

New technology lets companies go beyond pre-employment checks and rescreens to real-time monitoring of current employees for warning signs of illegal or other concerning behavior.  

“Employee monitoring is one of the biggest trends I’m seeing,” said Jason Morris, an employment screening consultant and industry expert with Morris Group Consulting in the Cleveland area.

“Justifiably, employers will always want to know who is working for them—not just [during] hiring but throughout their employment relationship,” Cunneen said. “A current employee can engage in illegal behavior as much now as he or she could have before they were an employee.”

Uber announced plans last year for ongoing monitoring of arrest and conviction data on their drivers. “These tools have been around for a while, but end users are finally seeing the benefits, and the data is getting better,” Morris said.  

Uber teamed with San Francisco-based screening firm Checkr to get continuous updates about drivers’ records, including new criminal violations and license suspensions. The technology will notify Uber, for example, when a driver is charged with driving under the influence.

“It is a subscription that listens to a candidate’s data over time, looking for and identifying changes in their background to mitigate risk for companies,” said Tomas Barreto, vice president of product and engineering at Checkr. If new information triggers a full background check, the worker is also notified, he said.

“While there are some industries whose regulations have mandated continuous or some form of periodic screening, such as health care, we are seeing more industries embrace the idea,” said Melissa Sorenson, executive director of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners. “Like any background-screening program, it’s important for employers to ensure they follow both federal and state law related to background screening—including following disclosure and authorization requirements before conducting a background check, as well as adverse action processes in the event that the results of the background check lead the employer to consider not hiring, promoting or retaining the individual.”

Hiring People with Criminal Records

Research shows a majority of HR professionals find little difference in quality of hire between applicants with and without a criminal record.

“The fact that employers cannot find workers due to the current labor shortage has caused them to turn to an untapped and underutilized source of labor: ex-offenders and [former] inmates from the approximately 20 million Americans who have been convicted of a felony,” Rosen said.

The Prison Policy Initiative calculated the ex-offender unemployment rate to be 27 percent, higher than the total U.S. unemployment rate at any time, including during the Great Depression.

Alonzo Martinez, associate counsel for compliance at background-screening company HireRight, said that with the number of unfilled positions now exceeding the labor pool, employers are recognizing the potential in this previously untapped group of candidates.

“While a criminal record should never be an automatic deal breaker—especially for candidates who have misdemeanors on their records, have served their time or have been rehabilitated—in the current market, employers are increasingly considering candidates with criminal records and redefining policies and requirements to lower some of the barriers to employment that ex-offenders face,” he said.

“Companies recognize that hiring from this population is the right thing to do, but it’s also good business,” said Richard Bronson, the founder and CEO of 70MillionJobs, the first for-profit job board specifically for job seekers with criminal records.

“Companies are motivated by the bottom line, and they recognize that unfilled jobs are costly. Every single company I talk to says they are facing a staffing shortage or they have trouble retaining their workers, particularly at the lower end of the wage scale. Perhaps they would not have been eager to consider this population before, but I think they generally recognize that they can ill afford to ignore any large pool of talent out there, and this is arguably one of the largest. One in three adults have a record of some kind.”

The industries most hospitable to people with criminal records have been call centers, construction, health care, manufacturing, retail, and transportation and warehousing. “The technology sector has been woefully reticent to take action,” Bronson said. “They talk a good game but don’t deliver when it comes to actually hiring.”

Martinez said HR must be cognizant of the challenges involved with screening the ex-offender population, such as a longer turnaround time to ensure a complete assessment.

“Companies should continue to perform thorough background checks and conduct individualized assessments of candidates with criminal history, per EEOC guidance,” he said. “It would also benefit companies to review their hiring requirements to determine the types and depth of screening that is necessary for each job position. This can reduce the volume of acceptable hires that are unnecessarily flagged for additional review for reasons that are not related to the role’s responsibilities.”

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What the Hell is Wrong with the Republican Party?

Table of Contents: 

The State of the Republican Party

The “Southern Strategy” and the “Silent Majority”

The “Religious Right”, the “Prosperity Gospel”, and Religious Crusade

The Rise of Conservative Media

A Radicalized and Obstructionist GOP Congress

Donald Trump and the Populist Rebellion

How Do We Save the Republican Party?

Preface 

This article is a very, very cursory overview of the history that I’m discussing. Each of the sections in this article could be a PhD dissertation. I’m essentially fitting 55 years of history into 4,000 words, and in doing so, I’m simplifying things quite a bit. But I stand by my depiction of the events themselves, as well as my analysis of those events. So give it a read, click on some of the links for further reading, and do some research of your own. The purpose of this article isn’t to demean or to vilify, it’s to instruct. And we’re going to need to sit down, read opposing perspectives, and do some analysis in order to move the country away from illiberalism and towards a more true democracy.

The State of the Republican Party

If you were to ask a Republican today what conservatism is, they would probably give you some version of the Reagan-era doctrine: respect for traditional social values, liberty above all, free trade, free market, private ownership, etc.

But that doesn’t really exist anymore.

Sure, some Republicans pretend that it does. Paul Ryan’s health care bill is an extreme version of Reagan-era conservatism: cut entitlement programs, cut taxes on the rich to stimulate economic growth, etc. But Paul Ryan isn’t the Republican Party. Neither is Mitch McConnell. Neither is Mike Pence. The country doesn’t really want them anymore. They’re desperately holding onto an idea that has been rejected by the American people, even by the base that they’ve tenuously held onto, though that hold has been slipping and continues to slip to this day.

Case in point: 

The AHCA, Paul Ryan’s health care bill, had only 21% approval when it passed. 64% of voters like the Affordable Care Act’s protections for pre-existing conditions, something that many conservatives hate.

According to a recent Gallup poll, 63% of Americans believe upper-income Americans pay too little in taxes, while 67% of Americans believe that corporations pay too little in taxes. Meanwhile, only 14% of Americans believe that lower-income Americans pay too little, down from 24% five years ago. Tax cuts for the rich and increased spending for the poor is a major component of the Republican Party’s agenda, and most Americans want nothing to do with it.

Republicans’ social agenda is, for the most part, widely unpopular as well. According to a recent Gallup poll, 64% of Americans support same-sex marriage being legal, with 47% of Republicans believing that as well. 

It should be noted that all of these numbers are only going to get worse over time. Americans are increasingly adopting the view that things like same-sex marriage should be legal, that rich people should pay more taxes, and that health care should be more comprehensive and more universal.

So, with that in mind, why are Republicans clinging to this dying agenda like their lives depend on it? Why would they be so desperate to push through that agenda that they are willing to support Donald Trump, a sexual predator who is now under investigation for colluding with Russia during the election, a man who has now almost certainly committed obstruction of justice? Do they really believe that lying about their agenda, which they have shamelessly done with the AHCA, will really work once the full effects of their agenda hits their voter base?

What the hell is wrong with them? Let’s take a look. 

The “Southern Strategy” and the “Silent Majority”

The Republican Party wasn’t always like this. It was a backlash to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s that really ushered in this modern shift. Barry Goldwater believed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was unconstitutional, thought that the federal government shouldn’t have the authority to force states to comply with a definition of racial equality, and with that, he welcomed in southern segregationists where they were previously distanced from the party.

Black voters clearly received the message. Around 60% of black voters were Democrats in 1960; around 90% of black voters were Democrats in 1968. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party completely lost the South after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and have never won it back since. A decision to cross the rubicon and let in the violence and the vitriol associated with segregationist attitudes remade the Republican Party because they began to see what they could do with it. Even if Goldwater didn’t believe in the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act because of federal overreach instead of a personal segregationist attitude, it didn’t matter. Playing off of the fear of change and the fear of the “other” has its advantages, namely, that there are more scared white voters than there are black voters.

They continued to capitalize on this strategy with Nixon’s campaign and his famous coining of the phrase “silent majority”. When he used that phrase in his famous 1969 speech, he wasn’t explicitly calling on white voters, but the “silent majority” was the antithesis to the “vocal minority” protesting Vietnam and other Nixon-era policies in the streets. The silent majority were those white people afraid of change, afraid of a future where the women’s rights movement and the Black Panthers and changing social norms made them somehow irrelevant and wrong.

But, of course, he didn’t come out and explicitly say “white people”, just as he didn’t explicitly say that his war on drugs was purposed to target black people and “hippies”. He was able to code racial rhetoric, using “dog whistle” phrases to remain “respectable’ while still winking at the fear and the violent anger of white people horrified at the notion of change.

This tactic has been employed over and over again, with Reagan as shown in Atwater’s infamous interview in 1981, with George H.W. Bush as shown in his Willie Horton campaign ad in 1988, with Ailes and the racist programming of Fox News, and with Donald Trump’s violent nativism and depiction of “inner cities” as eviscerated by “American Carnage”.

The rhetoric has only gotten more and more vicious, more and more violent, and has disconnected the Republican Party further and further from today’s reality. It has seeped into and infected almost every facet of conservatism and the Republican Party. Goldwater’s “Southern Strategy” and its use by Nixon really paved the way for Donald Trump today.

The “Religious Right”, the “Prosperity Gospel”, and Religious Crusade

Both political parties have been infused with Christian rhetoric for a long, long time, but it was Ronald Reagan that supercharged the Republican Party with evangelical Christianity. In the 1980 election, he very publicly aligned himself with the religious right and the Moral Majority, giving members from the Moral Majority speaking spots at the GOP conventions and positions as advisors to his campaign. He drastically modulated his tone as well, advocating “God in the classroom” as he referred to classroom prayer, expressing doubts about the theory of evolution, and asserting that the separation of church and state was unnecessary, as religious values should be allowed in government. He also openly embraced the “Southern Strategy”, beginning his campaign in the heart of Mississippi, declaring that he “believed in states’ rights”, a refrain used to justify regressive policy and a classic falsity about why the Civil War occurred. 

The policy implications of the merger between Reagan and the Moral Majority cut deep into his presidency. His reaction (or non-reaction) to the AIDS crisis was unconscionable, as it reeked of homophobia and essentially let a generation of homosexual men die from disease. He opposed not only LGBTQ rights, but welcomed in the racism of the Southern Strategy by also opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1965. This kind of racism was clearly evident in his renewed dedication to the War on Drugs, as he signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, where he created mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses, paving the way to the mass incarceration of black people and the new Jim Crow.

The prosperity gospel, a strain of Christian thought that taught that God favors those with wealth, bled into conservative ideology, as evidenced by increasingly draconian economic policy (trickle-down economics). The wedding of the prosperity gospel and conservative ideology has deep implications to this day, as some who voted for the AHCA have voiced that poor people should simply live good lives like healthy people, and many conservatives value “personal responsibility” over all else.

The issue with this isn’t just that it produced bad policy, but also that it paved the way for candidates that infused politics and political crises with a deadly amount of religion. George W. Bush considered his doctrine “compassionate conservatism”, and to an extent, that was accurate. His AIDS initiative, where he funneled billions of dollars into helping those suffering from the disease in Africa, was extraordinarily compassionate. But part of what pushed him to commit as heavily as he did to the Iraq War was his born-again, evangelical Christianity.

George W. Bush was a deeply religious man, born again as an evangelical Christian in 1985. He brought that into his presidency, his staff expected to attend daily prayer meetings, religion laced into many of his speeches. After 9/11, he believed that he was undertaking a crusade to rid the world of evil and bring the beauty of democracy to countries that need it. That definition, painting the enemy as a force of evil, an “axis of evil”, paved the way for the atrocities that were committed during the Iraq War, the horrors at Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay. If religion can be a way to better the lives of others, a way to emphasize “compassionate conservatism”, it can also be a way to justify making others’ lives a living hell, torturing them because they are the embodiment of evil.

And supercharging conservatism with religion as a method of justification, as a method to convince conservatives that some are worthy of humanity while others are not, led to the rise of Donald Trump. 

The Rise of Conservative Media

With Roger Ailes’ death recently, there has been a lot of soul-searching among conservatives, where they pontificate on how Roger Ailes has been revolutionary, but destructive. And that’s true. Roger Ailes’ media empire has created an enormous amount of influence and has transformed conservatism as we know it. But conservative media existed before Roger Ailes, and the conservative media outlets that spawned from the mainstreaming of conservative news have been far more vitriolic and hateful than Fox News.

Magazines and media outlets such as National Review have existed since the 50s, and are still seen as a legitimate authority today. But it was talk radio that pushed the boundary of acceptability, in that it existed outside of the realm of journalism, strictly and unapologetically advocating one point of view, aiming for ratings and profit above substance. Conservative talk ratio found prominence in the 1990s with Rush Limbaugh becoming popular, but didn’t explode until after the 9/11 attack, when people like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham rode the nationalist wave to the radio.

It’s also worth noting that conservative talk radio has bled into mainstream channels like Fox News, with Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity having their own very, very popular shows. Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity were not moderated by having a presence on a mainstream news network; rather, Fox News was further radicalized by these far-right voices. Just recently, Sean Hannity, host of one of the top-rated shows on cable television, has been pushing an insane conspiracy theory about a DNC staffer who was killed, saying that it is somehow connected to the Trump/Russia scandal and the DNC hacking. Glenn Beck fanned the flames of the Tea Party with his doomsaying, talking about how Obama would bring about the end of democracy with his agenda. Fox News, while still holding onto a couple respectable reporters, has largely become radicalized, and now acts as a sort of state propaganda engine for the Trump administration.

Watching Fox News, as opposed to watching CNN, is like experiencing a completely different reality. MSNBC has tried something similar, infusing their late-night programming (All In with Chris Hayes, The Rachel Maddow Show) with a liberal edge, but those hosts, Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, still have a respectability to them (Rachel Maddow is a Rhodes scholar, Chris Hayes has a BA from Brown). This is likely because the origin story of conservative-leaning news is different from that of liberal-leaning news, where conservative-leaning news is deeply entangled with infotainment talk radio.

This feverish drive for ratings and profit, especially during the Obama era, has created a conservative base that is increasingly entrenched in their own reality, offering something genuinely detached from the reporting of other news sources. It contributed to the radicalization of conservatives, pushing them further right, but more than that, it stirred up a rabid hatred of liberals (“snowflakes”) and liberal values while promoting a nativism and a fear of the “other”. Fox News and conservative media have played a massive role in the denigration of conservative values, tainting them with a ruthless drive for profit that manifested itself in vile fearmongering.

But even Fox News is now fighting for relevance, with far more extreme outlets (Breitbart, InfoWars) taking hold of the conservative base. Breitbart, by far, had the most influence over the conservative media ecosystem during the 2016 election, completely eclipsing Fox News. Breitbart doesn’t even have the whiff of integrity that Fox News has, its sexism and racism even more blatant and more extreme. Even peddlers of conspiracy theories, media outlets like InfoWars, are gaining more popularity despite have no credibility at all. InfoWars even has temporary White House press credentials.

Ailes’ death seems a fitting bookend to an era of increasingly radicalized conservative media, resulting in the birth or mainstreaming of extreme outlets like Breitbart, Daily Caller, and InfoWars, outlets that are detached from fact-based reporting. We now live in the era of “fake news”, where those extreme outlets peddle stories that aren’t based in fact, all while calling respectable reporting from CNN and New York Times fake news.

Modern conservatism has been irreparably damaged by conservative media’s radicalization, and has helped lead to the rise of Donald Trump.

A Radicalized and Obstructionist GOP Congress

It started with Newt Gingrich in the 1990s. He made an effort to destroy congressional expertise, making it easier to pass ideological instead of practical legislation. He elevated legislative obstructionism to a level unseen in modern political history. He peddled in conspiracy theories such as the Vince Foster absurdity, vindictively presiding over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Newt Gingrich did more to destroy Congress as an institution than almost anybody else in modern political history, and he paved the way for the obstructionist nightmare that was Congress during the Obama presidency.

When Obama was elected in 2008, the Republican reaction was extreme. John Boehner wanted to stop movement in Congress entirely. Mitch McConnell’s biggest goal was to make Obama a one-term president. Obstructionism reached new heights, with judicial nominees being blocked in unprecedented fashion, budgets turning into vicious battlegrounds, and almost zero cooperation on major votes. Probably the most insane example of Republican obstructionism was the blocking of Merrick Garland as Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. The Senate refused to even hold a hearing on him, essentially keeping him off of the Supreme Court, holding the seat open until maybe a Republican president comes around (which indeed happened). What made this obstructionism so dangerous wasn’t just how it made Congress grind to a halt, but also how it led to the breakdown of political norms.

Congress also became increasingly radicalized. With some voters believing that Obama was going to commit unspeakable atrocities against the country, whether it was a descent into socialism or a coup, they came together into the Tea Party, which spoke of revolution and replacing establishment shills with extremists that would actually change things. The revolution deeply affected the Republican Party, as many were primaried and replaced with these more extreme politicians. One of the most notable primary battles was in 2014, with Eric Cantor vs. Dave Brat, where Cantor (someone that the Republican Party had high hopes for) lost by around 10 percent of the vote. These radicalized members of Congress pushed increasingly radical agendas (the Republican Party platform in 2016 was the most extreme in decades and decades), advocating total and complete resistance while demonizing liberals and peddling paranoid conspiracy theories. Birtherism may not have been born from the Tea Party, but it was enabled by it, with racist rhetoric about the Obamas intensifying as the Tea Party grew in strength.

Their radical agenda of revolution also led to near catastrophes, with the debt-ceiling crisis of 2011 creating the most volatile week in financial markets since the 2008 financial crisis. It also led to the government shutdown of 2013, where Ted Cruz tried to push Obama to strip the Affordable Care Act of funding, only to have the government shutdown for 16 days, after which Ted Cruz was largely stripped of credibility (we all remember him reading Green Eggs and Ham during a filibuster). These crises only decreased public trust in Congress, with approval of Congress at a historic low of 9% after the 2013 government shutdown.

If people voted for Trump because of dissatisfaction, positioning Congress as a radical do-nothing entity only pushed the country into his grasp. 

Donald Trump and the Populist Rebellion

We still don’t entirely know why Donald Trump won. The reasons are too numerous to count. Economic anxiety, racial anxiety, misogyny (whether external or internalized), dissatisfaction with “elites”, a polarized and often dissatisfactory fourth estate, fear-mongering rhetoric about immigrants and terrorists, Russian interference, the rise of illiberalism in Europe, the insular nature of social media. We can go on and on about why Donald Trump won, but here, let’s talk about one specific reason: the failure of the Republican Party.

The Republican Party, in 2012, released an RNC Election-Autopsy Report, where they discussed what major changes the Party needed to make in order to change public perception and start winning elections. Their analysis dictated that they should be more open to immigration, that they should advocate for policies that help women, that they should reach out more to college students (who largely see the Republican Party as a joke), and that they should go after corporations that advocate for executives over middle-class workers. It’s a position that they felt would help create longevity for their party, make it so that they’re able to win elections long-term.

So why didn’t they follow that report? Instead of moving in another direction, Tea Party candidates kept winning elections and the GOP candidates for the 2016 presidential election were far-right extremists like Ted Cruz and boring rank-and-file candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. What went wrong? Well, the base for the Republican Party wasn’t a group that advocated for immigration reform, tax cuts for the rich, and deregulation. They were simply angry and wanted something to be different. Everything that had happened for decades and decades up to this point (Nixon’s Southern Strategy, Reagan’s evangelism, the toxicity of conservative media, and a radicalized Congress at a standstill) created a GOP base that peddled dark conspiracy theories, vicious racism and nativism, and a hatred for liberals and Democrats. The RNC Election-Autopsy Report was always going to be a joke because how does a political party with that kind of history just turn on a dime? How does a political party change when it’s unwilling to come to grips with the violence of its history?

And because the Republican Party wasn’t willing to come to grips with its history, because it had created a voter base that was furious and desperate and needed change, they didn’t choose somebody remarkably unlikable like Ted Cruz or bland and still disliked like Marco Rubio. They chose somebody that made them feel good, somebody who wasn’t a political elite or a cultural elite, somebody that carried with him the narrative that he was a winner who cared about the things they cared about: Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has no real policy agenda. He has no depth of understanding of the issues facing the country. He has no experience at leading anything that isn’t his company. But he said what his base had been thinking of years: the world is scary, Mexicans are stealing jobs and are raping our country, China is stealing from us, we need to become tough and strong again and not be wimpy and cowardly like the politicians in Washington. 2016 was the election of fear, and since Donald Trump won, conservatism has become even more toxic and violent, with reporters being harassed and beaten, people like Milo Yiannopolous, Richard Spencer, and Alex Jones becoming household names, and media outlets like Fox News essentially becoming state propaganda. We often hear the narrative that the Democratic Party is dying while the GOP is in complete power, but Trump’s election was the Republican Party killing itself, modern conservatism becoming poisoned beyond repair.

Donald Trump’s administration has been wracked with scandal from Day 1, and the GOP Congress both cannot lead with the scandal around them and don’t know how to lead. The only major piece of legislation passed is the AHCA through the House, and very few Republicans want to touch a bill that unbelievably unpopular and that poorly crafted. So what happens next? Donald Trump will eventually leave office and the Republican Party and modern conservatism will have to move on. But what does that even look like?

How Do We Save the Republican Party?

I don’t write any of this to say that conservatism is moronic and immortal, that Republicans are bad people, and that everybody on the right is racist and stupid. I know that there is a lot of anger and pain on both sides, that many conservatives believe that liberals think poorly of them. But that’s not what I think, and that’s not the point of this article. The point of all of this is to say that a strong Republican Party is necessary to serve as a counterbalance to a strong Democratic Party, that a conservatism divorced from vicious nativism and racism is necessary for a robust political discourse, and that revitalizing the Republican Party and redeeming it should be a priority for every American.

So what can Republicans do to revitalize their party? What lessons do we learn from this history?

First, Donald Trump has to go. Anybody connected to Donald Trump has to go. Desires for politicians to enrich themselves through their office need to be curbed, and curbed hard. Strict punishment needs to be enforced for corruption, as Trump has enabled corruption through his incredibly corrupt practices. Efforts also have to be taken to curb the rhetoric surrounding his campaign and his presidency. The GOP has winked at racists, homophobes, and sexists for decades, and there needs to be an active effort to reform the party to a place where they’re accepting of people who live differently than your average straight white male. But Donald Trump is a huge, huge problem that needs to be fixed before anything else can be done.

Second, the center-right needs to be rebuilt. The center-right is the bulwark against extremism in the party. Politics on the right have become way too extreme, with people like Mike Pence considered normal. Mike Pence is not normal. He is an extreme ideologue who advocates extreme policy, such as torturing young LGBTQ individuals through conversion therapy. The Republican Party needs to make an effort to weed out the extremists and replace them with center-right candidates who actually want to solve problems instead of advocate for policies that match extreme ideology.

Third, the Republican Party needs to become a party of ideas that respects its base. Right now, the Republican Party doesn’t do either of those things. They have remarkably few ideas that will actually produce positive results for the majority of Americans. They peddle conspiracy theories, whether through Fox News, the politicians in Congress, or administration officials. They lie to their base, telling them outright falsehoods about major legislation like the AHCA. All politicians lie, yes, but there needs to still be a level of respect for voters, treating them like people who would care about tax reform if you sold them hard enough on it. This means that the Republican Party needs to denounce media outlets like Breitbart and InfoWars, and even Fox News when they peddle stories that are nonsense. 

Fourth, the level of money in politics needs to decrease, and fast. 80% of all of the dark money in politics goes to Republicans. That is unacceptable. Republicans need to look at Donald Trump’s populist ideas during his campaign and find ways to tailor that approach to policies that will actually help that base and not their donors. If that means finding ways to help alleviate the opioid epidemic, great. If that means finding ways to reform politics to take dark money out, great. If that means loosening their position on market-based health insurance, great. Dark money is a blight on politics and the Republican Party has benefited on it for far too long, poisoning themselves in the process. Stances like climate denial are disgraceful and reek or corruption.

There are numerous other things that the Republican Party can do, but it’s all going to take time, and lots of it. Conservatives that care about the future of the Republican Party need to make an effort to do better, if not for the sake of the liberals on the other side of the aisle, then for the country at large. Because, at this rate, the Republican Party threatens to shred apart the political climate in America, promising things that aren’t true, training their base to be hateful and violent, and enriching themselves through their political donors and their corruption.

This cannot continue. It’s time to do better.

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Facebook’s ad platform is facing charges that it has enabled gender-based discrimination against millions of women in a class action suit filed on behalf of three female workers and backed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The legal action also names ten employers who are alleged to have used the social media giant’s platform to exclusively and unlawfully target job adverts at male Facebook users, thereby excluding women and non-binary users from receiving the ads.

The ACLU, law firm Outten & Golden LLP, and the Communications Workers of America have filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

BREAKING: We've filed charges against @Facebook and 10 employers for using the platform to target their job ads — for positions in male-dominated fields — only to younger men.

Facebook is violating federal civil rights law. Period.

— ACLU (@ACLU) September 18, 2018

The 10 employers and employment agency advertisers named in the suit, which the charges allege ran discriminatory jobs in “mostly” male-dominated fields, include a police department, multiple retailers, a software development firm and various installation, repair and remodelling companies. (All ten named in the suit are listed in the ACLU’s press release.)

“I’ve heard stories about when people looked for jobs in the classified ads and big bold letters read ‘help wanted-male’ or ‘help wanted-female.’ I was shocked to find that this discrimination is still happening, just online instead of in newspapers,” said Bobbi Spees, a job-seeker and lead complainant in the case, commenting in a statement.  “I shouldn’t be shut out of the chance to hear about a job opportunity just because I am a woman.”

“The internet did not erase our civil rights laws.  It violates the law if an employer uses Facebook to deny job ads to women,” added Peter Romer-Friedman, an attorney at Outten & Golden, in another supporting statement. “The last time I checked, you don’t have to be a man to be a truck driver or a police officer.  But Facebook and employers are acting like it’s the 1950s, before federal employment law banned sex discrimination.”

The charges allege that Facebook, via its platform, delivers job ads selectively based on age and sex categories that employers expressly choose, and that it earns revenue from placing job ads that exclude women and older workers from receiving the ads.

The ACLU notes that targeting job ads by sex is unlawful under federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Sex segregated job advertising has historically been used to shut women out of well-paying jobs and economic opportunities,” said Galen Sherwin, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, in another supporting statement. “We can’t let gender-based ad targeting online give new life to a form of discrimination that should have been eradicated long ago.”

While online platforms are not as heavily regulated as publishing platforms the lawsuit argues that Facebook can be held legally responsible for:

creating and operating the system that allows and encourages employers to select the gender and age of the people who get their job ads, including providing employers with data on users’ gender and age for targeting purposes;

delivering the gender- and age-based ads based on employers’ preferences; and

acting as a recruiter connecting employers with prospective employees

We’ve reached out to Facebook for comment on the lawsuit. Update: A Facebook spokesperson told us: “There is no place for discrimination on Facebook; it’s strictly prohibited in our policies, and over the past year, we’ve strengthened our systems to further protect against misuse. We are reviewing the complaint and look forward to defending our practices.”

The company also told us that it will soon require all advertisers to consent that they will comply with its anti-discrimination policies and the law — in addition to prompts added last year when advertisers are creating campaigns that Facebook’s system identifies as offering housing, employment or credit ads.

This summer Facebook also announced it was whittling down the targeting categories advertisers can use — shaving more than 5,000 targeting options to “help prevent misuse”.

It’s by no means the first time the company has faced civil rights complaints related to its ad platform.

Back in 2016 ProPublica exposed how Facebook’s ad tools could be used to exclude users based on their “ethnic affinity” — including in protected categories such as housing, employment and credit opportunities which prohibit discriminatory advertising.

The company responded by saying it would build tools to prevent advertisers from applying ethnic affinity targeting in the protected categories. And also by rewording its ad policies to more clearly prohibit discrimination.

But the following year another ProPublica investigation showed it was still failing to block discriminatory ads — leaving Facebook to apologize for failing to effectively enforce its own policies (hmmm, now where else have we heard the company accused of that… ), and saying: “Our systems continue to improve but we can do better.”

Last year the company was also shown to have allowed ads that included hateful sentiments targeted at Jewish people.

Around about the same time that Facebook was facing renewed criticism over ethnic affinity targeting on its platform being used as a tool for racial discrimination, the company said it would also take a look at how advertisers are using exclusion targeting across other “sensitive segments” — such as those relating to members of the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities.

It’s not clear whether Facebook included gender-based discrimination in those 2017 self reviews too. (We’ve asked and will update this post with any response.)

Either way, it appears Facebook has failed to pick up on the potential for gender-based discrimination to be carried out via its ad platform.

And given all the attention its ad tools have attracted lately as a vector for discrimination and other types of abuse that looks careless to say the least.

Facebook’s ad platform has faced additional criticism in Europe for sensitive inferences it makes about users — given the platform allows advertisers to target people based on political and religious interests, meaning Facebook’s platform is quietly making sensitive inferences about individuals.

Privacy experts argue this modus operandi entails Facebook processing the sensitive personal data of individuals without explicitly asking people for their upfront consent (as would be required under EU law when you’re processing sensitive personal data such as political or religious affiliation).

An opinion on a person is still personal data of that person, they contend.

Facebook disagrees, disputing that the inferences its ad platform makes about users (based off of its tracking and data-mining of people) constitutes personal data. But it’s yet another bone of legal contention now being lobbed at the company.

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Sexual harassment is not acceptable. Our Plainview sexual harassment lawyers can safeguard your legal rights. What do you do when you are in the workplace, and somebody makes lewd and offensive statements to you? Have the demands of a manager made you uncomfortable at work? Is your employer receptive to grievances about sexual harassment? What if you are threatened with retaliation or tagged a “rat”? Would you like to have a discussion with one of our Plainview sexual harassment lawyers to review your claim?

Sexual harassment continues to plagues modern society. Our N. Y. sexual harassment and employment discrimination attorneys are here if you are sexually harassed.

Sexual Harassment in Plainview is Truly Unacceptable

Notwithstanding tens of millions speaking out in opposition to sexual harassment, it persists. Unfortunately, recent stories of sexual harassment against women are showing just how pervasive the problem is. This isn’t happening to just you. All through Plainview, sexual harassment at work is prevalent. Sexual harassment is not the fault of the victims. Those who commit sexual harassment are the ones to blame. You will need to take the first step to protect your rights. Our sexual harassment attorneys are here to assist you.

Consult Our Experienced Sexual Harassment Lawyers

Our experienced sexual harassment attorneys can certainly help you if you have been sexually harassed in Plainview or around the New York metro area.

Instead of handling the situation alone, knowledgeable sexual harassment lawyers can advise you on how to proceed. Your knowledgeable sexual harassment lawyers can help negotiate on your behalf and advance your lawsuit towards the outcome you seek. Your lawyer can ease a great deal of the stress and fear workplace discrimination can cause. Is your boss denying you your rights? A coworker? Our compassionate attorneys are here to talk about your options with you.

Countless Questions – Our Sexual Harassment Attorneys Can Certainly Help

When you are on the receiving end of offensive conduct on the job, you are likely to have many questions. Our Plainview sexual harassment attorneys can answer your concerns and help you recognize important legal issues.

With countless emotions and uncertainty swirling in their minds, targets of sexual harassment often wonder: Is it just me? Exactly what is sexual harassment? What things can I do or say to the person and end the harassment? Am I required to file a complaint? Who do I need to have a conversation with in order to file a report concerning this? I don’t want to get fired. But exactly how should I protect myself from harassment? I am afraid they are going to retaliate towards me. How do I protect myself?

Our lawyers deal with claims in Plainview in the New York metropolitan area. With many years of experience, our sexual harassment attorneys can provide assistance particular to your lawsuit. We can work with you to determine what options you’ve got and just what your rights are.

Our Lawyers Understand the Laws and Procedures of Sexual Harassment Claims in New York

In relation to sexual harassment, the laws can be complex. If you know the direction to go, you may be capable of taking advantage of federal and state, and city laws to protect your rights. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against sexual harassment as a kind of sexual discrimination. For plaintiffs in New York, they also have legal rights under the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL), which similarly prohibits sexual harassment and discrimination. New York City Human Rights Law may also protect you. Do any or all of these apply to you? We have to determine which laws will provide you the best remedies in your circumstance. Which law- federal, state or city provides you the best outcome? We have to understand the specifics of your claim. Our sexual harassment attorneys can then suggest a plan for your matter in Plainview.

There are occasions that, in advance of commencing a civil claim for sexual harassment on the job you have to file an administrative charge with the appropriate agency. Various commissions can be involved. The New York City Commission on Human Rights, The New York State Division of Human Rights or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may require filings. These agencies are all interested in preserving the legal rights of employees. There are important differences and distinctions between the three, and each has their own processes that you need to comply with. The likelihood of success may be completely different in unique agencies. We help you to file timely with the appropriate agency. To be able to prevail and maximize your award, you will need to commence a claim within the proper laws and in the right forum.

Developing a Strategy to Help You Fight Sexual Harassment in Plainview

If you have been the target of sexual harassment and employment discrimination in Plainview, there are many benefits to having our sexual harassment lawyers on your side.

You should create an approach, and our sexual harassment attorneys can certainly help with this. You may choose to file a complaint about the problem. Your company may have written procedures and policies set up that require you to file a report about sexual harassment. Written policies might need to be followed to make a sexual harassment claim. Record and keep duplicates of whatever you use to support your claim in addition to all answers you receive once you file a report about the sexual harassment. Companies need to check into claims of sexual harassment. Through the analysis, our Plainview sexual harassment lawyers can monitor the advancement of your claim. Our attorneys advocate for you and take action if the process is not proceeding.

Some employers choose to punish the worker rather than conducting a in depth investigation. You could have been transferred, fired or demoted. Have you been forced to resign after filing a report regarding sexual harassment? Your most powerful claims can be against your supervisor for retaliation. Sometimes, the retaliation is more discreet. Our experienced Plainview sexual harassment lawyers can certainly help you identify the indications. We can help record events to help you develop a strong retaliation claim.

After Being Sexually Harassed at Work in Plainview, What are Your Remedies?

Experienced sexual harassment attorneys know what remedies can be available to you. Various laws provide for remuneration for emotional distress, lawyers’ fees, back pay, and punitive damages.

Dependent upon the facts of your claim, you can be entitled to significant damages. Call us now. Speak with our sexual harassment lawyers to go over your case in Plainview.

Call and Speak with Our Plainview Sexual Harassment Lawyers

Needlessly to say, it can be incredibly painful to handle the aftermath of sexual harassment. Anxiety and depression can materialize after the verbal or physical mistreatment of sexual harassment. The emotional stress and strain may be even greater if you must remain in the workplace. Retaliation at work is a concern for those who have been sexually harassed. Exactly what can you do to protect your employment and legal rights? You don’t have to go through this by yourself.

By speaking with our sexual harassment lawyers, you will get hands-on, experienced representation from professionals that care. Our lawyers are incredibly committed to their work. To get a free case analysis, contact us today. You might have a valid claim against your company. Let’s discuss your circumstances.

We are here for you 24/7. Please call (646) 846-2800 to discuss your claim.

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Our New York Sexual Harassment Attorneys Protect Employees Working in Plainview

Why You Need a Sexual Harassment Lawyer in Plainview

Sexual harassment is not acceptable. Our Plainview sexual harassment lawyers can safeguard your legal rights. What do you do when you are in the workplace, and somebody makes lewd and offensive statements to you? Have the demands of a manager made you uncomfortable at work? Is your employer receptive to grievances about sexual harassment? What if you are threatened with retaliation or tagged a “rat”? Would you like to have a discussion with one of our Plainview sexual harassment lawyers to review your claim?

Sexual harassment continues to plagues modern society. Our N. Y. sexual harassment and employment discrimination attorneys are here if you are sexually harassed.

Sexual Harassment in Plainview is Truly Unacceptable

Notwithstanding tens of millions speaking out in opposition to sexual harassment, it persists. Unfortunately, recent stories of sexual harassment against women are showing just how pervasive the problem is. This isn’t happening to just you. All through Plainview, sexual harassment at work is prevalent. Sexual harassment is not the fault of the victims. Those who commit sexual harassment are the ones to blame. You will need to take the first step to protect your rights. Our sexual harassment attorneys are here to assist you.

Consult Our Experienced Sexual Harassment Lawyers

Our experienced sexual harassment attorneys can certainly help you if you have been sexually harassed in Plainview or around the New York metro area.

Instead of handling the situation alone, knowledgeable sexual harassment lawyers can advise you on how to proceed. Your knowledgeable sexual harassment lawyers can help negotiate on your behalf and advance your lawsuit towards the outcome you seek. Your lawyer can ease a great deal of the stress and fear workplace discrimination can cause. Is your boss denying you your rights? A coworker? Our compassionate attorneys are here to talk about your options with you.

Countless Questions – Our Sexual Harassment Attorneys Can Certainly Help

When you are on the receiving end of offensive conduct on the job, you are likely to have many questions. Our Plainview sexual harassment attorneys can answer your concerns and help you recognize important legal issues.

With countless emotions and uncertainty swirling in their minds, targets of sexual harassment often wonder: Is it just me? Exactly what is sexual harassment? What things can I do or say to the person and end the harassment? Am I required to file a complaint? Who do I need to have a conversation with in order to file a report concerning this? I don’t want to get fired. But exactly how should I protect myself from harassment? I am afraid they are going to retaliate towards me. How do I protect myself?

Our lawyers deal with claims in Plainview in the New York metropolitan area. With many years of experience, our sexual harassment attorneys can provide assistance particular to your lawsuit. We can work with you to determine what options you’ve got and just what your rights are.

Our Lawyers Understand the Laws and Procedures of Sexual Harassment Claims in New York

In relation to sexual harassment, the laws can be complex. If you know the direction to go, you may be capable of taking advantage of federal and state, and city laws to protect your rights. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against sexual harassment as a kind of sexual discrimination. For plaintiffs in New York, they also have legal rights under the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL), which similarly prohibits sexual harassment and discrimination. New York City Human Rights Law may also protect you. Do any or all of these apply to you? We have to determine which laws will provide you the best remedies in your circumstance. Which law- federal, state or city provides you the best outcome? We have to understand the specifics of your claim. Our sexual harassment attorneys can then suggest a plan for your matter in Plainview.

There are occasions that, in advance of commencing a civil claim for sexual harassment on the job you have to file an administrative charge with the appropriate agency. Various commissions can be involved. The New York City Commission on Human Rights, The New York State Division of Human Rights or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may require filings. These agencies are all interested in preserving the legal rights of employees. There are important differences and distinctions between the three, and each has their own processes that you need to comply with. The likelihood of success may be completely different in unique agencies. We help you to file timely with the appropriate agency. To be able to prevail and maximize your award, you will need to commence a claim within the proper laws and in the right forum.

Developing a Strategy to Help You Fight Sexual Harassment in Plainview

If you have been the target of sexual harassment and employment discrimination in Plainview, there are many benefits to having our sexual harassment lawyers on your side.

You should create an approach, and our sexual harassment attorneys can certainly help with this. You may choose to file a complaint about the problem. Your company may have written procedures and policies set up that require you to file a report about sexual harassment. Written policies might need to be followed to make a sexual harassment claim. Record and keep duplicates of whatever you use to support your claim in addition to all answers you receive once you file a report about the sexual harassment. Companies need to check into claims of sexual harassment. Through the analysis, our Plainview sexual harassment lawyers can monitor the advancement of your claim. Our attorneys advocate for you and take action if the process is not proceeding.

Some employers choose to punish the worker rather than conducting a in depth investigation. You could have been transferred, fired or demoted. Have you been forced to resign after filing a report regarding sexual harassment? Your most powerful claims can be against your supervisor for retaliation. Sometimes, the retaliation is more discreet. Our experienced Plainview sexual harassment lawyers can certainly help you identify the indications. We can help record events to help you develop a strong retaliation claim.

After Being Sexually Harassed at Work in Plainview, What are Your Remedies?

Experienced sexual harassment attorneys know what remedies can be available to you. Various laws provide for remuneration for emotional distress, lawyers’ fees, back pay, and punitive damages.

Dependent upon the facts of your claim, you can be entitled to significant damages. Call us now. Speak with our sexual harassment lawyers to go over your case in Plainview.

Call and Speak with Our Plainview Sexual Harassment Lawyers

Needlessly to say, it can be incredibly painful to handle the aftermath of sexual harassment. Anxiety and depression can materialize after the verbal or physical mistreatment of sexual harassment. The emotional stress and strain may be even greater if you must remain in the workplace. Retaliation at work is a concern for those who have been sexually harassed. Exactly what can you do to protect your employment and legal rights? You don’t have to go through this by yourself.

By speaking with our sexual harassment lawyers, you will get hands-on, experienced representation from professionals that care. Our lawyers are incredibly committed to their work. To get a free case analysis, contact us today. You might have a valid claim against your company. Let’s discuss your circumstances.

We are here for you 24/7. Please call (646) 846-2800 to discuss your claim.

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Sexual Harassment in Glen Cove is Against the Law – Call Our NY Sexual Harassment Attorneys

In Glen Cove, Get Assistance from Our Sexual Harassment Attorneys

Glen Cove sexual harassment lawyers protect you when sexual harassment occurs on the job. How do you respond in the workplace when someone makes offensive suggestions to you? What happens if your supervisor demands you go on a date and becomes upset because you refuse? Are you able to lodge a complaint with management? Have you been prohibited from filing complaints about harassment? Are you ready to talk to our Glen Cove sexual harassment attorneys to talk about what has been happening?

Sexual harassment happens all too often in today’s world. Our New York sexual harassment lawyers are prepared to assist if you are the target of sexual harassment.

When Sexual Harassment Occurs in Glen Cove, it is Truly Wrong

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We agree it is never acceptable, nevertheless it continues in all industries. Unfortunately, recent stories of sexual harassment against women are showing just how pervasive the problem is. Some pin the blame on themselves, wondering how this can happen and questioning whether it’s only happening to them. On a daily basis, workers in Glen Cove encounter sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is not the fault of the target. The ones to pin the blame on are the ones who perpetrated sexual harassment. You will need to take the initial step to force them to stop their illegal behavior. We are here to help get you on your way. Call the lawyers at www.sexualharassmentlawyer.com for assistance.

Talk to Our Seasoned Sexual Harassment Lawyers

Our knowledgeable sexual harassment lawyers can certainly help you if you’ve been sexually harassed in Glen Cove or in the New York metro area.

With the array of legal issues you are experiencing, you need seasoned lawyers on your side. A trusted sexual harassment attorney can explain the laws and facts to you and help you decide the path to take. Your lawyers are there to defend both you and your legal rights. Is your manager violating your rights? A colleague? Our sympathetic lawyers are here to talk about your legal options with you.

Our Sexual Harassment Lawyers Can Answer All Your Questions

If you find yourself on the receiving end of offensive behavior in the workplace, you’ll probably have many concerns. Having helped many, many individuals who experienced sexual harassment, our attorneys handling cases in Glen Cove will be able to produce a framework for you to organize your thoughts and focus on pertinent issues.

With countless emotions and uncertainty swirling in their minds, victims of sexual harassment often wonder: Is this activity unlawful or merely offensive? What is sexual harassment? Is this sexual harassment? Is it up to me to get the person to stop harassing me? Should I report this to my supervisor? What if I’m not sure who to talk to? Can I guard myself from more harassment? If my boss retaliates towards me, what legal rights do I have?

With attorneys representing clients in Glen Cove and the New York metro area, we can help. Sexual harassment lawsuits call for specific knowledge, and our attorneys can help with your claim. It is critical you recognize your rights. We can patiently clarify them for you.

Starting a New York Sexual Harassment Claim is Complicated

The laws and regulations in connection with sexual harassment are complicated. For those who have been sexually harassed, there are many sections of law that cover them. There’s a federal law called the Civil Rights Act of 1964, specifically Title VII, that prohibits employment discrimination influenced by sex. At the state level, New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) prohibits sexual discrimination and sexual harassment. Employees in New York City may also receive protection from New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL). Which laws would apply to your claim? Based on your situation, which gives you the greatest probability to succeed? Will it really make a difference which laws and regulations we bring your claim under? Professional sexual harassment lawyers representing clients in Glen Cove can help you make this determination.

in a few instances you have to file a case with an administrative agency before initiating a civil action in court. Do you have to file with the EEOC, NYDHR or NYC HRC? These agencies are involved in guarding the legal rights of workers. You will find distinctions between the city, state and federal, and you should keep to the rules and regulations specific to that body. Our experienced sexual harassment lawyers are familiar with the laws and procedures, and work with you to file your claim promptly with the appropriate body. Commencing an inappropriate claim, choosing the wrong laws or not meeting deadlines can stop you from realizing an award of damages.

Investigating and Reporting Sexual Harassment in Glen Cove

For anyone experiencing sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace in Glen Cove, you will find benefits to using our Glen Cove sexual harassment lawyers.

Before you go forward with a claim, you will need to develop an approach. You may choose to go to your supervisors and file a report concerning the issue. Your company may have written policies and procedures in place which require you to file a complaint about sexual harassment. To file a claim for sexual harassment, you may need to comply with their documented policies and procedures. Ensure that when you register a grievance, you have retained important documents and keep duplicates of all responses from your employer. Employers really should look into claims of sexual harassment. Our Glen Cove sexual harassment lawyers can certainly help monitor this process to make certain it is continuing fairly. Our lawyers may take additional action in the event your claim is not moving forward.

Some bosses elect to punish the worker rather than performing a detailed investigation. Some bosses punish the target, and they may be transferred, fired or demoted. As a result of making a report for sexual harassment, have you been made to resign from your job? Your most robust claims can be against your supervisor for retaliation. In some cases, the retaliation might be more subdued. Our experienced Glen Cove sexual harassment lawyers can help you identify the signs. We can assist you to establish retaliation and help you focus on related evidence.

What Remedies are Available If You’ve Been Sexually Harassed in Glen Cove?

Our Attorneys may also help you clearly understand what remedies are available to you. Applying various laws to your claim, you might be able to recuperate compensatory damage awards for emotional distress, lost wages, and future pay.

Depending on the specifics of your case, you can be qualified to receive substantial damages. Contact our attorneys today if you have been sexually harassed. Speak with our experienced attorneys handling sexual harassment claims in Glen Cove to find out whether we can help.

Call Our Sexual Harassment Attorneys Helping Workers in Glen Cove Today

The consequences of sexual harassment may be incredibly difficult to deal with. Depression or stress often occur after sexual harassment. Continuing to work with those involved with the harassment could make matters worse. Many fear retaliation if they say anything. How do you protect your legal rights? You can’t go at this by yourself. Help is available.

Our compassionate sexual harassment lawyers are here to answer all your questions. Our attorneys are incredibly committed to their work. If you would like a free claim review, call our offices today. Ready to hold your company accountable? Contact us today.

Please call (646) 846-2800. Our staff is available 24/7 to discuss your claim.

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