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Race Discrimination against Comcast

The California law firm of Stephen Danz & Associates posted this interesting article about alleged race discrimination at Comcast….

…  their attorneys reported a race bias and discrimination lawsuit brought last week by an African American former Comcast employee. Comcast is an American multinational mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and largest cable company in the world by revenue. The former employee worked in Comcast’s customer service center who alleged the company discriminated against black male employees and allowed assaults in the workplace by his female supervisors to go unchecked. The Plaintiff, Wilber Spencer Jr. worked for Comcast for over 10 years and argued that he and other black male workers were never promoted, rarely received advances, and were always supervised by white individuals. However, those who were actually promoted were white. After he complained about race discrimination in the workplace, he started receiving bad marks in reviews concerning his attitude. In addition, even though he repeatedly complained about racial discrimination, his pleas went unanswered. Then, after his most recent complaint on March 27, 2015, he was fired for hanging up on a customer. He believes that this was done as a pretext (or a false reason meant to cover the real illegal reason). See the firms  dedicated race discrimination page here.

Read the entire article HERE

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Comcast is arrogant and insidious to oppose wage discrimination says law professors

Comcast Supports Wage Discrimination

New legislation in Philadelphia aims to prevent discrimination during the hiring process and reverse the disparity in salaries earned by women and minorities compared to white, non-Hispanic men.  Comcast wrote a 25 page memo opposing this.   This fascinating article on http://www.phillyvoice.com shows how far Comcast is willing to go to pay woman and minorities less…

Two local law professors with decades of legal experience say Comcast is taking an “arrogant” and “insidious” position by opposing a pending wage gap ordinance that would bar Philadelphia employers from asking job applicants to disclose their salary history.

The legislation, sponsored by Philadelphia City Councilman-at-Large Bill Greenlee, was approved by a 16-0 vote in early December. It aims to prevent discrimination during the hiring process and reverse the disparity in salaries earned by women and minorities compared to white, non-Hispanic men. Modeled on a similar law adopted by the Massachusetts state legislature in August, Greenlee’s ordinance would become the first of its kind enacted by a U.S. municipality.

Mayor Jim Kenney signaled his support and intent to sign the legislation immediately after City Council’s vote in December, but more than a month after the Title IX amendment to the Philadelphia Code gained passage it’s still awaiting his signature.

“What government is trying to do is something everybody applauds, which is eliminating prejudice, whether it’s on the basis of race, gender or religion.” — Burton Caine, Temple University law professor
A 25-page memo sent to the city’s Law Department could help explain why.

Written by Comcast senior Vice President David L. Cohen and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce CEO Rob Wonderling, the memo argues the wage discrimination ordinance violates an employer’s First Amendment right to free speech….   Read more here…

 

 

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Read Others Experiences and Add Your Story Here

Did you have a bad (or good) experience reporting through the Comcast Listens Program?  Did you give up on a Comcast Solutions claim because they delayed the process for years?  Were you forced to quit or retaliated against in some other way because you came forward?

Others would love to read about them here.   Share your story below by commenting on this post.

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Comcast Age Discrimination in Florida

Does age discrimination take place at Comcast?  Comcast is able to hide most of their age discrimination, sexual discrimination and other employment law violations as they never make it to court.  Comcast forces it’s employees to use arbitration, with the results never becoming public.

There are examples of people alleging Comcast employment law violations all over the internet, as in this question posted to the Avvo “Ask a legal Question” area of their site.   The question starts with…

My supervisor said in a meeting why should I pay you older guys what I am paying you when I can hire younger guys at half the pay, I was shocked to hear that, one of the other guys were upset by it and complained to his boss but got nowhere, he was even threatened to be put on another worse shift if he did not like it…

If you have any legal questions about your Employment Law Violations at Comcast, Avvo.com is a great place to ask them.   Click to read the rest of the question and go to Avvo now…

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Comcast pays $7.2M to settle racial discrimination suit by Chicago techs

In the article by http://www.fiercetelecom.com African-American employees alleged a hostile work environment.  The article opens with …

In the case, Plaintiffs alleged that Comcast created a hostile work environment by referring to African-American employees in a racially derogatory manner, forcing 112th Street employees to work in a substandard facility, and denying 112th Street employees the same quality of equipment and tools afforded to Comcast facilities that do not have majority African-American employees. Plaintiffs also claimed that the company did not adequately respond to repeated complaints by African-American employees about the workplace…

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