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☆ North Carolina Hooters sued for racial discrimination against employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a North Carolina Hooters restaurant for allegedly discriminating against Black or darker-skinned “Hooters Girls,” the federal agency announced Thursday. In March 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Greensboro, North Carolina, Hooters temporarily laid off around 43 employees, dubbed “Hooters Girls” by the restaurant chain. There was a “marked shift in the racial composition of the restaurant’s Hooters Girls workforce,” when employees were called back in, according to the EEOC release. The complaint also alleged that the darker-skinned Hooters Girls “experienced racial hostility and observed preferential treatment of White employees while employed at the restaurant” and received less-lucrative shifts. The Greensboro restaurant had no comment and directed CNN to the company’s public relations department.

Persons: EEOC, VII Organizations: New, New York CNN, Employment, Commission, North Carolina Hooters, Hooters, Hooters Girls, CNN, Civil, Court, Middle, Middle District of Locations: New York, Greensboro, North Carolina, Middle District, Middle District of North Carolina

Aug 24 (Reuters) - A Las Vegas restaurant whose parent is led by Michelin-starred chef Thomas Keller was sued on Thursday by a U.S. government agency, which accused managers of sexually harassing female and male employees on a daily basis. Keller's company, Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, is also a defendant. The EEOC filed its lawsuit in federal court in Las Vegas. It also filed three other sexual harassment lawsuits on Thursday against restaurants in the Las Vegas area. The EEOC said the misconduct at Bouchon included sexual advances, sexually charged comments and unwanted advances, primarily by men.

Persons: Thomas Keller, Keller, Mario Batali, John Besh, Ken Friedman, EEOC, Carol Zavala, Zavala, VII, Jonathan Stempel, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Michelin, U.S, Employment Opportunity Commission, Thomas Keller Restaurant, Civil, District of, Thomson Locations: Vegas, Las Vegas, California , New York, Miami, Northern, Napa Valley, Se, New York City, U.S, District, District of Nevada, New York

Ex-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker are board members. The complaints come as many experts expect an uptick in challenges to corporate diversity programs following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that prohibited race-conscious college admissions policies. “There certainly is a deep psychological effect that is putting the brakes on the forward movement of diversity in the workplace,” Rossein said. America First has also filed lawsuits accusing Target Corp and Progressive Insurance of breaching their duties to shareholders by adopting diversity programs and progressive marketing campaigns, for instance celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month. Commissioner Andrea Lucas, a Trump appointee, filed a dozen charges last year, more than any of her colleagues.

Persons: Trump, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's Mar, Jonathan Ernst, Activision's, Kellogg, Morgan Stanley, Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, Matthew Whitaker, Rick Rossein, ” Rossein, Hershey, Andrea Lucas, Lucas, Gene Hamilton, Daniel Wiessner, Alexia Garamfalvi, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Activision Blizzard Inc, Kellogg, U.S, Opportunity Commission, America, Starbucks Corp, McDonald's Corp, Anheuser, Busch Companies, Hershey Co, Republican, Trump, Supreme, City University of New York School of Law, Target Corp, Progressive Insurance, Activision, Democratic, Thomson Locations: Lago, Palm Beach , Florida, U.S, America, Albany , New York

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photoAug 10 (Reuters) - A China-based tutoring company has agreed to settle a U.S. government agency's novel lawsuit claiming it used hiring software powered by artificial intelligence to illegally weed out older job applicants. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) involving a company's use of AI to make employment decisions. The commission, which enforces workplace bias laws, in 2021 launched an initiative to ensure that AI software used by U.S. employers complies with anti-discrimination laws. Many worker advocates and policymakers are concerned about the potential for existing biases to be baked into AI software, even unintentionally. Experts expect an increasing number of lawsuits accusing employers of discriminating through their use of AI software.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, ITutorGroup, EEOC, Daniel Wiessner, Alexia Garamfalvi, Andy Sullivan Organizations: REUTERS, iTutorGroup Inc, U.S, Opportunity Commission, Ping An Insurance, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, New York, California, Albany , New York

Kellogg's Corn Flakes, owned by Kellogg Company, are seen for sale in a store in Queens, New York City, U.S., February 7, 2022. "Management has discarded the company's long-held family friendly marketing approach to politicize and sexualize its products," the group said. The EEOC can sue companies if it finds that their employment practices amount to illegal discrimination. "Kellogg’s employment practices are unlawfully based on 'equity,' which is a euphemism for illegal discrimination," Reed Rubenstein, a lawyer with the group, wrote in the letter. America First said it also had sent a letter to Kellogg's board of directors on Wednesday threatening shareholder litigation if the company maintains the allegedly illegal policies.

Persons: Andrew Kelly, Kellogg, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, RuPaul, Reed Rubenstein, America, Daniel Wiessner, Stephen Coates Organizations: Kellogg Company, REUTERS, Wednesday, America, Donald Trump . America, U.S, Opportunity Commission, Management, Supreme, Tuesday, Target Corp, Thomson Locations: Queens , New York City, U.S, Albany , New York

☆ I moved to Japan to teach on a US military base. The whole experience cost me thousands when the job didn't work out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Brianna Stultz got an offer to teach on a military base in Okinawa, Japan, and moved in December. Despite making a friend and loving Japan, she regrets taking the job and has moved back to Arizona. I got an initial offer for a teaching job on a military base in Okinawa, Japan, in July 2022 — and I returned home to Arizona almost exactly one year later. I also met a friend through work who I'm absolutely devastated that I'm not going be able to see all the time now. I did love living in Japan, but I'm happy to be home so I can do all the things I missed here.

Persons: Brianna Stultz, —, I'd, I'm, they'd, could've Organizations: Service, Opportunity Commission, Junior League Locations: Okinawa, Japan, Arizona, Wall, Silicon, Phoenix , Arizona, Phoenix, United States

Affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each other outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2023. Now that the Supreme Court has struck down race-conscious admissions, employers could face challenges in how they find diverse talent. A group of 13 Republican attorneys general suggested in the wake of the ruling that companies' diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs could be considered unlawful discrimination. In the wake of the ruling, many fear universities could become less reliable sources from which to recruit diverse talent. However, during the last year there has been a "step back" in terms of diversity hiring, said Reyhan Ayas, a senior economist at Revelio Labs, a workforce data and analytics firm.

Persons: Kent Nishimura, Jocelyn Samuels, Lorraine Hariton, Donald Harris, Stacy Hawkins, Kim Waller, Korn, Waller, Ahmad Thomas, Thomas, it's, We've, Alvin Tillery, Tillery, Carey Thompson, Adam Kovacevich, George Floyd, Russell, Reyhan Ayas, Northwestern's, Salesforce, Kovacevich, VI, Temple's Harris, " Harris Organizations: U.S, Supreme, Washington , D.C, Los Angeles Times, Apple, General Electric, Google, Starbucks, Harvard University, University of North, Democratic AGs, Employment, Commission, Catalyst, Temple University School of Law, University of California, University of Michigan, Urban Institute, Employers, Rutgers University . Companies, . Census, Temple University School of Law Business, Leadership Group, Corporate, Northwestern's Center, Diversity and Democracy, Gettysburg, of Progress, Economic, Revelio Labs, Silicon, Amazon, Microsoft, Civil Locations: Washington ,, University of North Carolina, U.S, Silicon Valley

☆ The Biden administration just announced plans to crack down on more than 4,400 new cases of child labor in the US since October
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Department of Labor is heightening enforcement of child labor laws through new partnerships and tactics. On Thursday, the Department of Labor announced it would take more measures to crack down on illegal child labor nationally, including heightening enforcement of child labor laws through new tactics and partnering with other agencies and foreign governments. "Like the President, we believe that any child working in a dangerous or hazardous environment is one child too many." This comes after the department's February 2023 announcement of the Interagency Task Force to Combat Child Labor Exploitation, created in response to a 69% increase in illegal child labor findings from 2018 to 2022. Sixteen more McDonald's franchise locations in Louisiana and Texas were found in violation of child labor laws last week, impacting 83 minors.

Persons: Biden, Labor Julie Su Organizations: of Labor, Service, Department of Labor, Labor, Department of Health, Human Services, Refugee Resettlement, The Department of Labor, Housing, Urban Development, Transportation, US Small Business Administration, Commission, The Labor, State, Department of Education, Interagency, Force, Combat, The Locations: Wall, Silicon, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Minnesota, Kentucky , Indiana , Maryland, Ohio, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri , Ohio, South Dakota

☆ Justice Clarence Thomas has a long history of accepting expensive gifts, including a long-time friend paying for his 1987 wedding reception: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Justice Clarence Thomas' acceptance of lavish gifts stretches back decades, per a new NYT report. These include his 1987 wedding reception, paid for by a friend before he joined the Supreme Court, it said. In its latest report, the Times detailed lavish gifts, some of which pre-date Thomas' time on the Supreme Court. "And, in return, he opened up the Supreme Court." Thomas is far from the only Supreme Court Justice to have received expensive gifts in the course of their tenure.

Persons: Clarence Thomas, Thomas, Harlan Crow, Crow, Armstrong Williams, Horatio Alger, Williams, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, — Thomas Organizations: Supreme, Service, New York Times, Opportunity Commission, Times, Horatio, Distinguished, Horatio Alger Association, Justice, LA Times Locations: Wall, Silicon, Thomas, Virginia

☆ The elite Horatio Alger Association, which counts Clarence Thomas among its members, has repeatedly been given unusual access to the Supreme Court's courtroom: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Clarence Thomas' membership in the Horatio Alger Association gives it rare access, per the Times. The elite group welcomed Thomas into the fold after his stormy Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Thomas soon became a member of the Horatio Alger Association himself and cherished his ability to speak with students and mentor scholarship recipients. "They really treated him like a brother, like he mattered and, in return, he opened up the Supreme Court," Williams added. Thomas hosts the induction ceremony in the Supreme Court courtroom, where roughly 10 new individuals are welcomed into the elite organization.

Persons: Clarence Thomas, Horatio Alger, Thomas, Anita Hill, Thomas —, District of Columbia Circuit —, Horatio, Ginni, Armstrong Williams, Williams, Tom Selleck, Lou Dobbs, —, Anthony Hutcherson, ProPublica, megadonor Harlan Crow Organizations: Horatio, Times, Service, Commission, Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Distinguished, The New York Times, Horatio Alger Association, Judicial Conference Locations: Wall, Silicon, Virginia, Washington , DC, United States

Reverse discrimination lawsuits are common, but there is little court precedent on the legality of whole diversity programs. The Supreme Court in a 1979 ruling upheld a chemical company's policy that at least half of its trainees for skilled craft positions be Black. By calling out specific admissions policies, such as giving "pluses" to minority students, the court's decision is likely to embolden critics who claim workforce diversity programs similarly give unfair advantages to certain groups. The Pfizer case was brought by Do No Harm, a conservative activist group that has challenged several diversity programs in healthcare. Those broad policies are likely insulated from legal challenges, according to Doug Brayley, a Boston-based partner at law firm Ropes & Gray.

Persons: Evelyn Hockstein, Gray, Thursday’s, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, “, ”, Dan Morenoff, George Floyd, Andrea Lucas, Lucas, Donald Trump, Roberts, Edward Blum, Blum, Doug Brayley, ” Brayley, Daniel Wiessner, Alexia Garamfalvi, Alistair Bell Organizations: U.S, Supreme, Harvard University, University of North, REUTERS, American Civil Rights, Opportunity Commission, Republican, Democratic, Pfizer Inc, Pfizer, Conservative, Gray, Thomson Locations: University of North Carolina, Washington , U.S, Boston, Albany , New York

☆ Women who applied to Bill Gates' family office were reportedly grilled about their porn habits, if they had nudes on their phone, and other sensitive info that could open them up to blackmail concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some women who applied to jobs at Gates Ventures were asked sexual questions, The Wall Street Journal reported. A Gates Ventures spokesperson denied knowledge of the contractor's alleged questions, calling them "unacceptable." Concentric Advisors told the Journal that its screening process does not violate the law and is the same for male candidates. A Gates spokesperson denied it had any knowledge of any sexually explicit questioning in a statement to the Journal. At the time, a Gates spokesperson said the relationship was unrelated to Gates' decision to step down and the affair "ended amicably."

Persons: Bill Gates, they'd, Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein, Microsoft's, she'd Organizations: Gates Ventures, Street Journal, Street, Gates, Gates Venture, CIA, The, Microsoft Locations: Russian

☆ Women who applied to Bill Gates' firm were reportedly grilled about their porn habits, if they had nudes on their phone, and whether they had STDs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Some women who applied to jobs at Gates Ventures were asked sexual questions, The Wall Street Journal reported. A Gates Ventures spokesperson denied knowledge of the contractor's alleged questions. Bill Gates' private office had a screening process in which the firm asked some female candidates sexually explicit questions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. A Gates spokesperson denied it had any knowledge of any sexually explicit questioning in a statement to the Journal. At the time, a Gates spokesperson said the relationship was unrelated to Gates' decision to step down and the affair "ended amicably."

☆ Pregnant workers could receive longer breaks and more time off for recovery, thanks to a new law going into effect today
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act could provide pregnant workers with longer breaks and more time off. The act, requiring certain employers to provide "reasonable accommodations" went into effect Tuesday. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires employers with at least 15 employees to provide "reasonable accommodations" for workers dealing with limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. 80% of first-time pregnant workers worked until their final month of pregnancy. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was signed into law by President Joe Biden in December following unsuccessful earlier versions in 2021 and 2019, both of which passed in the House but not the Senate.

Persons: —, Dina Bakst, Joe Biden Organizations: Service, Employment Opportunity Commission, National Partnership for Women

☆ Bowlero CEO calls discrimination claims made in EEOC investigation 'absurd'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Jacob Pramuk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Bowlero CEO Tom Shannon on Wednesday called discrimination claims against the fast-growing bowling alley operator "absurd," but acknowledged the federal probe into those allegations may have hurt its stock price. They don't pass any common sense," Shannon told CNBC's "Mad Money with Jim Cramer." Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in January proposed to settle its sprawling investigation into age discrimination and retaliation claims against Bowlero for $60 million, CNBC reported last month. "Could [the investigation] be driving the stock down?" We have never been hit with anything, you know, in terms of evidentiary findings or anything like that," Shannon added.

Persons: Tom Shannon, Shannon, CNBC's, Jim Cramer, Bowlero, Cramer Organizations: Commission, Bowlero, CNBC

☆ Your job rejection may have been an A.I. mistake—how to spot and fix it
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In 2015, before anyone had ever uttered "ChatGPT," artificial intelligence already impacted job seekers in a big way. That year, Amazon realized that its machine-learning algorithms, meant to speed up its hiring process, were biased against women. Other cases of AI hiring discrimination abound, so much so that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission offers guidance for employers to ensure AI doesn't jeopardize fair hiring processes. Hiring bias isn't a new phenomenon: Some groups have long been unjustifiably overlooked in the job pool. In the meantime, job seekers are caught in the crossfire of AI's hiring mistakes.

Persons: Ifeoma Ajunwa, Lindsay Greene, who's Organizations: Amazon, Commission, University of North, Chapel Hill, Law, Technology, CNBC Locations: University of North Carolina, New York City

☆ Facebook faces new allegations of gender discrimination in its delivery of job ads. Research by human rights group suggests it's a global concern
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Clare Duffy | Carlotta Dotto | Naomi Hirst | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

But Global Witness' research suggests that this results in job ads being targeted to users based on gender stereotypes. And in some cases, human rights advocates say, the biases that appear to be shown by Facebook's ad system may exacerbate other disparities. Global Witness targeted the ads to adult Facebook users of any gender who resided in, or had recently visited, the chosen countries. Certain roles were less strongly skewed — a package delivery job ad, for example, was shown to 38% women users in the Netherlands. In December, Real Women in Trucking filed its EEOC complaint alleging that Facebook's job ads algorithm discriminates based on age and gender.

Persons: Naomi Hirst, Clara Wichmann, Ashley Settle, Settle, Meta, Linde, Ireland —, Caroline Leroy, Blanvillain, Fondation des Femme, Pat de Brún, de Brún, —, Brún, Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, Sandberg, Peter Romer, Friedman, " Romer, Facebook's, Hirst, Meera Senthilingam, Seth Fiegerman, Carlotta Dotto, Carolina Moscoso, Tal Yellin, Damian Prado, David Blood, Gabrielle Smith Organizations: CNN, Facebook, Global, Facebook's, des, UK, Human Rights, Commissioner's, Meta, US, Employment, Commission, Real Women, Trucking, Ad, Ireland, Fondation des, Amnesty, Employment Opportunity Commission, University of Southern, Real, Data Locations: Europe, France, Netherlands, Canada, United States, India, South Africa, United Kingdom, Indonesia, University of Southern California

☆ Listening to vulgar music that others can hear at work? You might be harassing your coworkers, a federal judge ruled
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A US appeals court ruled that offensive music played loudly in the workplace may violate sex discrimination laws. A 2020 lawsuit against a Nevada company alleged that complaints about offensive music were ignored. That's the opinion of M. Margaret McKeown, an appeals court judge in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Employees' complaints to management about the music being played loudly throughout the Nevada warehouse were allegedly ignored, according to the suit. Therefore, music with that language being played loud enough for dozens of employees to hear could qualify as grounds for claim of workplace harassment.

Persons: —, Margaret McKeown, McKeown, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Stan, Judge McKeown, wasn't, Activewear Organizations: Service, Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Civil, Employment, Commission, Wall Street Locations: Nevada

☆ 3 resume mistakes that could land your application in an AI hiring filter ‘black hole’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Nowadays, the first person to look at a job candidate's application is usually, well, not a person at all. To be sure, artificial intelligence did not originate the resume black hole. "The black hole exists pre-technology," says Frida Polli, chief data science officer at talent recruiting platform Harver. "The resume black hole oftentimes just has to do with the fact that companies are, quite frankly, just ignoring certain pools of candidates. Still, the black hole remains a fixture of the hiring process, and today, it is automated by an artificially intelligent algorithm.

Persons: Frida Polli Organizations: Commission, Fortune

☆ Clarence Thomas's first public scandal came in 1980, when he was a no-name aide to a GOP senator and complained to a journalist that his sister just waited by the mailbox for her welfare check
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In 1980, 32-year-old Clarence Thomas was a no-name aide to a Republican senator. At a conference for Black conservatives, he complained to a journalist about his sister being on welfare. The journalist, Juan Williams, wrote a column about it that caught the attention of Reagan's team. "She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check," Thomas said, according to Williams. Reagan ended up making massive cuts to welfare programs and allowing states to institute work requirements for welfare recipients.

☆ Bowlero executive publicly comments on discrimination probe for first time as bowling alley chain continues torrid growth
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A Bowlero executive publicly addressed the sprawling federal discrimination probe the company is facing for the first time Wednesday after it reported another quarter of what it called record-breaking growth. The question came about a week after CNBC revealed authorities want to settle the investigation for $60 million. Parker's comments mark the first time a Bowlero executive has publicly addressed the EEOC's probe, which has been ongoing since 2016. When CNBC reached out to Bowlero prior to publishing a report about the probe, the company refused to make its executives available for an interview. The case is now expected to go to court, where Bowlero could face even steeper fines, experts said previously.

☆ Bowlero, the public company that reimagined bowling, faces dozens of discrimination claims that the feds want to settle for $60 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +19 min

The 73 EEOC claims brought by individual former employees against the company sparked the larger pattern or practice investigation into age discrimination. Only a fraction of EEOC age discrimination complaints — 2.8% in fiscal 2021 — resulted in reasonable cause determinations, EEOC data show. It went from running six bowling alleys to 272 overnight after it acquired AMF, which was then the largest bowling company in the world and was in bankruptcy. The following year, Shannon's company acquired the Brunswick Corporation, the second-largest bowling company in the world, and changed his company's name to Bowlero. Dowe said negotiations fell apart when Bowlero countered the EEOC's $60 million settlement proposal with a proposal of $500,000.

☆ Health Plan Coverage of Abortion and Related Services
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Practical Law Employee Benefits | Executive Compensation | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +36 min

The Dobbs ruling, which returned the regulation of abortion to the individual states, has led to legislation that restricts abortion, including medication abortion, in many states. In response to the rapidly changing post-Dobbs legal landscape, this article addresses health plan coverage of abortion, medication abortion coverage and litigation, abortion-related travel benefits, and related Practical Law resources concerning these topics. The insurer in a fully insured health plan, health maintenance organization (HMO), or similar arrangement:Assumes the risk of providing health coverage for insured events by paying medical costs for eligible claims incurred under the plan. Self-Funded Health PlansBy contrast, employers with self-funded arrangements may have more discretion in providing coverage for abortion and related services. Changes to plan coverage of medication abortion will likely require plan administrators to:(For more on coverage of medication abortion, see Newly Launched, ReproductiveRights.gov Website Addresses Access to Medication Abortion (Mifepristone) Using Telehealth on Practical Law.)

☆ U.S. regulators warn they already have the power to go after A.I. bias — and they're ready to use it
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The warning comes as Congress is grappling with how it should take action to protect Americans from potential risks stemming from AI. CFPB also plans to propose rules to ensure AI valuation models for residential real estate have safeguards against discrimination. "There is not an exemption in our nation's civil rights laws for new technologies and artificial intelligence that engages in unlawful discrimination," Chopra told reporters during a virtual press conference Tuesday. The FTC is also prepared to take action against companies that unlawfully seek to block new entrants to AI markets, Khan said. "The Civil Rights Division is committed to using federal civil rights laws to hold companies accountable when they use artificial intelligence in ways that prove discriminatory," Clarke said.

Postal Service for alleged religious discrimination is set for U.S. Supreme Court review on April 18, poses in an undated handout image taken at an unknown location. Postal Service over his refusal to work on Sundays gives the Supreme Court another chance to widen religious rights but also has led to a debate over whether religious people are more legally deserving than others to weekend days off from work. The court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, has a track record of expanding religious rights in recent years, often siding with Christian plaintiffs. The Postal Service in 2013, in a bid to remain profitable, contracted with Amazon.com to deliver packages, including on Sundays. His absences caused tension among other carriers who had to cover his shifts, the Postal Service said.

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