According to the latest numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last week, based on the weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, women now earn 82 percent as much as men - up from 64 percent in 1980. In recent discussions of the wage gap, a...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently defended the 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission at The Federal Society's annual dinner held last Thursday night, jabbing at critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's majority opinion. Alito said arguments can be made for...
Judicial appointees are human beings, and it is no secret that some of them believe employment cases are the red-headed stepchild of civil litigation. We and others have discerned a judicial distaste for employment cases, probably due to a variety of factors, likely including the following: many...
Today, a minority of United States Senators, all of them Republican, killed legislation meant to fight gender discrimination in the workplace. The Paycheck Fairness Act, supported by 9 out of every 10 Americans, and by the overwhelming majority of Republican voters, would have held corporations...
Don't assume your first pay offer will be the same as what a similar male graduate will get. Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act was passed, studies continue to find a pay gap between men and women. Some of the difference - women earn about four-fifths of men's pay - can be attributed to...
Charles A. Lamberton recently recovered $1,350,000.00 for two clients. The first case involved an insurance bad faith claim, and the second was a military service discrimination case under USERRA.
The Lamberton Law Firm is pleased to have recovered $700,000 for two of its clients in their recent civil rights cases. The first case involved a claim of age discrimination, and the second a claim of disability discrimination.
Mr. Lamberton recently obtained a significant recovery for a client in a pregnancy discrimination case, involving a current cash component and reinstatement offer with a combined total cash value of more than $500,000. The employer will also revamp its written employment policies, and provide...