American Business Personnel Services refused to hire a black woman after telling her at a job interview that "the woman is supposed to follow the man" and she "would be better off staying at home with her children and being mommy," Tiana Housen says in a discrimination claim in Cincinnati Federal Court.
Class-action complaints alleging Labor Code violations have been filed against these defendants: Target Media Partners and Los Angeles Times Media Group, The Schwan Food Co., and Quality Parking Service, in Los Angeles Superior Court; Supershuttle International and Veolia Transportation Services, in a single claim in Alameda County Court, Oakland; Little Caesar Enterprises, Real Stone & Granite Corp., and Riverstone Communities, in Fort Pierce, Fla., Federal Court.
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