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Employment discrimination ruling carries many lessons.

Publication: California CPA
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Employment discrimination ruling carries many lessons.(Human Resources)

Article Excerpt
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling making it easier for workers to win discrimination suits against their employers has some important lessons for businesses. The decision in Desert Palace Inc. v. Costa deals with job discrimination cases in which race, sex, religion or national origin is a factor, among others, in an employee's termination or disciplinary action.

THE CASE

A former employee of Desert Palace, a large hotel operator, sued the company for gender discrimination. During the trial, the jury heard evidence that the plaintiff was the company's only female warehouse worker, she was singled out for "intense stalking" by one of her supervisors, she received harsher...

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