discrimination

Finding a job is hard enough these days, as evidenced by the stubbornly high unemployment rate in the U.S., which ticked up to 9% in April 2011, according to the Labor Department. As if massive downsizing, intense competition for jobs and outsourcing weren't enough, American workers must also...

More than 3,000 Hispanic consumers who were fleeced by a California mortgage company because of their ethnicity have been mailed refund checks by the Federal Trade Commission. On April 22, 2011, the FTC mailed 3,162 refund checks to mortgage loan borrowers taken advantage of by Golden Empire...

A half-dozen Delta Air Lines flight attendants sued the carriers for what they say is discrimination in the form of smaller profit-sharing paychecks for former Northwest Airlines employees, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Highly skilled women will lose about a quarter of a million dollars, or as much as a third of their lifetime earnings, by choosing to have a child, making the prospect of raising a family a far more expensive one for college grads than their less-educated counterparts, a new study shows.

A suit filed by three women accusing Goldman Sachs of sex discrimination underscores a surprising trend: Despite growing equality in the business world, financial services has become an increasingly male-dominated industry.

A gender discrimination lawsuit has been filed against Goldman Sachs Group, alleging pay and promotion bias against women at the Wall Street investment bank.

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Thursday (last updated at 7:30 a.m. Eastern time): Americans Owe Less Credit-Card Debt: Skittish consumers reduced their credit-card indebtedness sharply in the second quarter, credit-rating company TransUnion reported...

According to accounts from several former employees, Prada Japan may have hit upon a creative -- if unethical -- method for boosting its sales: forcing employees to buy its merchandise.

Supreme Court Justices challenged arguments from lawyers trying to keep private signatures on a petition to repeal a Washington domestic-partners law. Also in this roundup of legal news: The first genetic discrimination suit and Wal-Mart's settlement of wage charges.

The fashion industry's trend toward discrimination over physical attributes has moved off the runways and into retailers. A former senior retail manager at Prada Japan and two other employees, are accusing the famed fashion house of sexual harassment and appearance-based discrimination.