SF News Muslim Ex-SFPD Officer Gets $455,000 In Discrimination Settlement An Afghan-born former SF police officer who allegedly endured more than a year of racial slurs, and says he was fired for speaking up about it, has been awarded a $455,000 settlement from the city.
SF News United Airlines Flight Attendants Allege Racism on L.A. Dodgers Charter Flights Two veteran flight attendants, both women of color, are suing United Airlines, saying they were demoted off of working L.A. Dodgers team charter flights because the airline prefers “white, young, thin women” for that assignment.
SF News Ex-Twitter Engineer Sets Out To Prove Company's Alleged Discrimination Against Women Two years after suing Twitter for gender discrimination, engineer Tina Huang is looking to renew her fight against the tech giant, this time coming at them with data regarding pay from her peers
SF News Tesla Factory Dogged By Allegations Of Racist Attacks By Workers That Went Unpunished Three more men have come forward alleging that they were the victims of racist verbal attacks and harassment on the factory floor of Tesla's Fremont plant, and they've filed a lawsuit in Alameda
SF News Attorney General Jeff Sessions Officially Rescinds Workplace Protections For Transgender People On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo rescinding workplace protections for transgender people. BuzzFeed procured Sessions' memo reversing the Obama Administration policy, which reads, in part: "Title VII’s prohibition on
SF News Airbnb Host Who Discriminated Against Asian Guest Gets Fined $5K For the first time, an Airbnb host who exhibited racism on the platform an all too common occurrence — will be held legally responsible and penalized. Tami Barker, the owner of a home at
SF News California State Employees Now Have Eight States They're Not Allowed To Travel To With Tax Dollars Back in January, in the wake of a series of new laws in mostly Southern states that promote or condone discrimination against the LGBT community, a California law took effect banning the use
SF News Forever 21 Store In SF In Trouble With State Agency For Allegedly Requiring Employees To Speak English Only The Union Square-area Forever 21 store in San Francisco is the target of a civil rights claim by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing after it came to light that management
SF News Tesla Denies Female Engineer's Discrimination Claims, Discourages Unionization With Promises Of Froyo And Rollercoasters Tesla engineer AJ Vandermeyden says she's paid a lower salary than her male counterparts for her work at the luxury electric car company where she claims she's subjected to workplace harassment in an
SF News Uber Board Member Arianna Huffington Will Hold Leadership's 'Feet To The Fire' Over Sexual Harassment Allegations In April 2016, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that publisher and business mogul Arianna Huffington would join his company's board of directors, praising her "emotional intelligence," the kind women tend to have so
SF News Uber CEO Addresses Harassment, Discrimination Allegations In Company-Wide Email, Eric Holder To Review Investigation In former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's widely-circulated blog post "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber," what was "strange" was repeated alleged sexual harassment, and what was "very" was the company's
SF News Labor Department Sues Oracle For Allegedly Paying White Men More Than Others A complaint filed by the Department of Labor claims that software giant Oracle, which employs 45,000 US workers, is engaged in a “systemic practice of paying Caucasian male workers more than their
SF News Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Implies Too Many Asians Have Power In Silicon Valley On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to "drain the swamp" on Capitol Hill. Instead, he's made clear with his staff appointments so far that his intention is to pump it full of
SF News Study: Uber Drivers Are More Likely To Cancel Your Ride If You're Black An Uber driver is twice as likely to cancel a ride if the passenger requesting it has a black-sounding name, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds. The study,
SF News Airbnb Announces New Plans, Tools, And Rules To Fight Bigoted Hosts Nearly ten months after a Harvard Business School study revealed "widespread discrimination" against guests on the basis of race the short-term rental platform Airbnb, the San Francisco-based company is taking action, saying in
SF News Airbnb Hires Former Attorney General Eric Holder To Handle Discrimination Policy In May, Rohan Gilkes wrote a post on Medium about being cancelled on by a racist Airbnb host. His experience served as a focal point for reportedly widespread discrimination practiced by Airbnb hosts,
SF News Uber Settles Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit, Will Remove Drivers Who Refuse Users With Service Animals Uber has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit, filed in 2014, with advocates for the blind. As a condition of the settlement, the AP reports via KRON 4, the company has agreed to
SF News 60% Of Women In Tech Are Sexually Harassed (And More Numbers To Make You Throw Up) via GIPHY A new study of more than 200 women in technology reveals a hypocrisy with which many will be woefully familiar: A booming industry built on the promise of a new world
SF News Study Finds 'Widespread Discrimination' On Airbnb Three researchers at Harvard Business School published a study Wednesday documenting "widespread discrimination against African-American guests" on the short-term rental platform Airbnb. The researchers found that individuals with "distinctively African-American names" are less
SF News [Update] Utah Judge Takes Foster Child Away From Lesbian Couple In Favor Of Heterosexual Couple, Citing Science A ruling Tuesday in a Utah court indicates just how much further we have to go, in various parts of the country, when it comes to LGBT equality. Judge Scott Johansen ruled that
SF News Women's Book Club Plans To Sue Napa Valley Wine Train For $5 Million Somewhat predictably following a media firestorm around the unceremonious removal of 11 East Bay women from the Napa Valley Wine Train for allegedly being loud whilst drinking their wine, the group has engaged
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Of Black Women Say They Were 'Humiliated' By Removal From Napa Wine Train A group of 10 African American women and one white woman whose book club goes on an annual wine-tasting excursion to Napa were reportedly treated unfairly aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train on
SF News 'G' Chahal, The Worst Bad Man In Silicon Valley, Charged With Abusing Another Girlfriend It sadly comes as little surprise to those familiar with Gurbaksh "G" Chahal, a bad bad man if there ever was one, that the 32-year-old tech CEO has been charged with another instance
SF News Kleiner Perkins Did Not Discriminate Against Ellen Pao Based On Gender, SF Jury Finds In a trial that has captivated and examined Silicon Valley — with thumbs refreshing Twitter feeds at a fever pitch this afternoon — a San Francisco jury has found that Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, which
SF News HIV-Positive Fireman Sues City Over Harassment A San Francisco firefighter who thinks he may have contracted HIV while in the line of duty says that the subsequent harassment by fellow firefighters and mistreatment by the SFFD amounted to discrimination.
