For three hours yesterday, Starbucks closed its 8,000 stores across the United States, in a dramatic attempt to move towards racial reconciliation. Up to 180,000 employees from the coffee chain’s headquarters and stores received special training in racial bias and…
The social media super-storm sparked by ABC America's decision to cancel the Roseanne reboot following the star's offensive tweet, continues unabated. The maker of the sleeping pill Roseanne Barr said she had taken before comparing former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to an…
Two years after her controversial on-air comments about Muslims, Channel Nine’s Sonia Kruger will face a tribunal hearing, accused of vilification. The Nine Network failed in its bid to have the complaint against her dismissed without a hearing in the…
A New South Wales police officer accused of sexually harassing his colleagues by flicking their testicles doesn't believe he deserved an official warning, claiming he was denied procedural fairness during an internal investigation. Senior Constable Shane Summersford, who was based…
A mine worker who suffered an ankle injury, and subsequent depression and anxiety, has been paid $50,000 compensation after he was not allowed to return to work, despite being medically fit to do so. Discrimination Claims represented the worker in…
Discrimination Claims has helped a medical worker who developed a brain tumour win $25,000 compensation after she was subjected to discrimination for having an impairment. Miles Heffernan, Director of Litigation at Discrimination Claims, said the employer initially demoted the woman,…
A black woman has been captured on video ranting at an orthodox Jewish man on a crowded New York City subway, after he accused her of being racist. But during the confrontation, the woman angrily points out the racism black…
A local council in Melbourne is planning to replace male pedestrian crossing symbols with female signs, in a bid to improve gender equality. Brimbank Council said it has asked for female ‘walk and don’t walk’ figures at crossings to show…
KFC is being accused of racial discrimination after a group of black tourists was kicked out of a store in Berlin - they claim “for being black and talking too loudly”. It's just the latest in a series of incidents…
The South Australian Commissioner for Equal Opportunity is warning private schools that they face claims of unlawful discrimination by not having gender neutral uniforms. Doctor Niki Vincent said if girls weren’t given the option of wearing long pants and shorts,…
