Subject: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

• Uh-Oh, O'Reilly: Racial Discrimination?

  August 7, 2008

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• Fat Chance

  When the weight can't come down, the linemen do

  October 25, 2001

• Anatomy of an Intervention

  July 7, 1994

• Sam Nuchia in Black and White

  August 18, 1994

• Time and Money

  September 8, 1994

• The Insider

  January 25, 1996

• Sherlock's Pub Gets Spanked Back With Harassment Ruling

  The ass-spanking and breast-squeezing has come to a stop at Sherlock's Pub (we assume), but it was an expensive lesson.The owners of the bar on Westheimer agreed to pay $115,000 to settle a class sexual-harassment case brought against them by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC announced today.The commission claimed the owners had subjected female employees to sexual harassment and retaliated against a whistleblower."Continually" from 2005 through 2006, the EEOC said, a former

  February 4, 2009

• The Insider

  November 28, 1996

• Shell Games

  March 27, 1997

• The Insider

  June 12, 1997

• The Insider

  November 27, 1997

• Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

  January 1, 1998

• The Mean Spirit of Texas?

  April 30, 1998

• Letters

  May 14, 1998

• Letters

  May 21, 1998

• Heal Thyself

  September 3, 1998

• On Back Order

  January 28, 1999

• Sick and Fired

  May 20, 1999

• Harassing The Nurses Doesn't Pay, It Costs

  First Surgical Partners is a Bellaire company that runs outpatient clinics for harried doctors.As it's FAQ puts it, "an experienced management company offers ownership to the surgeons without having to deal with the day-to-day conflicts of running the center."Conflicts like, say, sexually harassing female employees.First Surgical is paying $290,000 and will provide "significant remedial relief" to settle claims brought against it by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC announced

  March 23, 2009

• Circle Those Wagons!

  July 1, 1999

• Skin Game

  Complaints of lewd conduct come from an ex-stripper

  January 2, 2003

• Down at the Boardwalk

  A couple's claim against Landry's -- was it bawdy behavior or veiled blackmail?

  November 1, 2001

• Racism at Work and Tijuana Bibles

  August 7, 2008

• Down the Hall

  Lurid sex allegations can't keep Baylor's big-time lobbyist from bouncing back

  August 8, 2002

• County Attorney Candidate Vince Ryan Sues Linebarger Goggan

  Saying he deserves a bigger piece of the pie, the former city councilman serves up cherry information to his current political opponent

  June 12, 2008

• Tax Break for the Rich II

  March 6, 2008

• The Torments of Academia

  According to a UH professor, his "perceived disability" is one

  January 11, 1996

• Gaps in Coverage

  GlobalTec employees apparently aren't all they make themselves out to be

  February 2, 2006

• Psyched Out

  VA nurses say a new rule that they be able to physically subdue unruly mental patients was just an excuse to get rid of them

  July 7, 2005

• Black and White

  Good ol’ boys prosper at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Many African-Americans don’t.

  November 11, 2004

• Letters

  August 26, 2004

• Behind the Happy Face

  Labor pains flare in a worker's fight with Wal-Mart

  October 30, 2003

• Flashing Lights

  The HISD police officer was supposed to be there to protect children. Instead, he raped a 17-year-old and said it was her fault. And HISD says it bears no blame at all.

  May 3, 2001

• Worked Over

  Quietflex laborers laud EEOC findings after setbacks

  December 28, 2000

• Taking Credit

  A lawyer gets charged up -- really -- over a convict's financial plight

  November 23, 2000

• Workers Reject a Union

  A January walkout fails to bring representation to Quietflex

  May 11, 2000

• Transferring assets

  Two teens are shuttled back and forth across the country as their mother and father (belatedly) fight over who gets to keep them

  May 25, 2000

• Awakening Giant

  Immigrant Hispanic workers at Quietflex spoke out. Now their struggle may reshape organized labor in Houston.

  February 24, 2000

• The Insider

  Art Decoy: A handwritten note undercuts UH chancellor's wordy defense

  February 3, 2000

• The Insider

  Report No Evil! UH threatens its top cop for reporting a star athlete's misdeeds

  January 20, 2000

• Affirmative Action for Whom?

  UH's score on the EEOC raises credibility questions

  August 26, 1999

• The Insider

  Shakedown Cruise: Mugging Rice is not nice on its first stroll through Mayor Brown's turf

  August 12, 1999

• The Insider

  Where Have All the Women Gone? Discrimination charges spotlight UH's lack of female leadership

  July 15, 1999

• Fire Alarm

  A gay employee says the abuse ended only with his ouster

  March 18, 1999

• The Insider

  January 9, 1997

• Your Federal Government: Protecting The Rights Of Old People To Work In Strip Clubs

  Now this is the kind of federal government you're getting now that Obama's in office -- the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a Houston strip club for firing a worker because she was too old.Finally, we have a gover -- what the hell? We're gonna get old strippers now? Bring back McCain!!The EEOC's Houston office says AHD Houston, Inc., which owns Centerfolds and Cover Girls -- described by the agency as "'strip clubs' catering to male customers" -- violated age-discrimination laws

  May 6, 2009

• Mature Strippers and Lottery Money:

  May 14, 2009

• Houston Chronicle, Modestly Declining To Blow Its Own Horn. For Some Reason

  Photo by alex-sThe Houston Chronicle bannered a headline Saturday over a story about federal inspectors criticizing the Harris County Jail: "County Jail Fails Feds' Probe."The story outlined the results of the inspection, saying "poor access to health care and life-threatening conditions" at the jail violated inmates' rights.What brought on the inspections in the first place? "The Department of Justice initiated its investigation last year after the jail, which has failed four of its last six st

  June 9, 2009

• Houston's Administaff Accused Of Some Pretty Wild Anti-Semitism

  ​The allegations are so outrageous and outlandish that they almost sound like a fraternity prank, or something a cruel older brother might do to their little brother. Except that they are not. What they are, in fact, are serious accusations made in Maryland federal court against a Houston-based company that two of its employees were abused and discriminated against for being Jewish. The lawsuit was filed by the U.S. government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Houston-head

  November 9, 2009