gender discrimination

BY SUSAN FREDERICK-GRAY   JUNE 6, 2022 [Are you a UU? Let me know…] The Public Religion Research Institute recently highlighted an important statistic: nearly all Unitarian Universalists (97 percent) support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ people. It’s a similar story for reproductive rights—according to the Pew Research Center, 90 percent of Unitarian Universalists (UUs) support keeping abortion legal in all or…

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HARTFORD, CT – The University of Connecticut will pay $249,539 to resolve alleged pay discrimination at its Storrs, Connecticut, campus following a routine compliance review by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). OFCCP found that the public university and federal contractor discriminated against five female employees in Specialist IA and Specialist…

Read More UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT TO PAY $249,539 TO FEMALE EMPLOYEES TO SETTLE PAY DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATIONS IN U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INVESTIGATION