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Trial Begins in Bias Suit by Deaf U.P.S. Workers [USA] - Lawyers for 900 deaf workers at United Parcel Service argued today as a trial in their discrimination lawsuit opened that the company had excluded them from numerous job categories and generally limited them to bottom-rung positions. (Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2003)

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2003:

Trial Begins in Bias Suit by Deaf U.P.S. Workers [USA] - Lawyers for 900 deaf workers at United Parcel Service argued today as a trial in their discrimination lawsuit opened that the company had excluded them from numerous job categories and generally limited them to bottom-rung positions. (Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2003)

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has decided to embark on a formal investigation into sexual harassment of women employees in the Royal Mail business unit - the mail sorting offices and postmen and postwomen - of the Royal Mail Group plc [UK] (Equal Opportunities Commission [UK], 17 Jan. 2003)

2002:

ALBANIA: Homeless Children Work As Couriers Under UNICEF Program -..."The idea was how to use the marketplace, how to get businessmen and businesspeople involved in generating new resources and new thinking and new opportunities for these kids" (UN Wire, 18 Apr. 2002)

2001:

EEOC and Eagle Global Logistics settle employment discrimination lawsuit with $9 million consent decree: Voluntary Agreement Resolves Allegations of Discrimination - The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Eagle Global Logistics f/k/a Eagle U.S.A. Airfreight, Inc., announced today that they have reached a $9,000,000 voluntary settlement...The settlement through a Consent Decree avoids protracted litigation by the EEOC on behalf of a class of African-Americans, Hispanics, and female employees and applicants who were allegedly subjected to race, gender, age, national origin discrimination, and harassment on the basis of sex and retaliation. (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1 Oct. 2001)

EEOC [U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] files lawsuit against Emery Worldwide Airlines for discrimination against African-American employees: Alleges Persistent, Facility-wide Racial Harassment, Biased Treatment and Retaliation (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 3 July 2001) 

2000:

Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2000)