Information for Your Comcast Listens or Comcast Solutions Filing
The Federal Communication Commission stores this handy 6-page list of Comcast’s Violation of Labor Rights. Is this eye-popping huge list proof that Comcast uses it’s huge size and power to do whatever it wants to employees?
View the entire 6-page PDF document from the FCC website – https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/6518190159.pdf
COMCAST CORPORATION SETTLES CHARGES OF SEX AND RACE DISCRIMINATION
Company will pay nearly $190K in back wages and interest to 96 former and current female employees and 100 minority job applicants; reform hiring practicesSEATTLE — Comcast Corporation has entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to resolve allegations of sex and race discrimination.
OFCCP investigators determined that between March 2006 and September 2007 in Everett, Washington, Comcast violated Executive Order 11246 by steering 96 women into lower-paying positions that assisted customers with cable services rather than higher-paid positions providing customer assistance for Internet services because these positions were considered “technical.”
Investigators also established that Comcast disproportionately rejected 100 African American, Asian, and Hispanic applicants for call center jobs because its hiring tests were neither uniformly applied nor validated as related to the job. This resulted in systemic hiring discrimination on the basis of race. Comcast Corporation is a federal contractor.
“Sex-based compensation discrimination and race-based hiring discrimination are not only illegal, they also hurt our economy,” said OFCCP Director Patricia A. Shiu. “We cannot build an economy that works for everyone by depriving women and minorities of opportunities to get ahead.”
determined that between March 2006 and September 2007 in Everett, Washington, Comcast violated Executive Order 11246 by steering 96 women into lower-paying positions that assisted customers with cable services rather than higher-paid positions providing customer assistance for Internet services because these positions were considered “technical.”… read more
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Here’s a funny one… This article from techdirt.com says that Comcast got a guy fired from his job (not at Comcast) for complaining to COMCAST. Now the guy is suing for disclosing his private information to his employer which is against the law. Way to go Comcast…
Guy Comcast Got Fired Now Suing Comcast For Violating Federal Privacy Law
from the karma’s-a-bitch deptIn the most recent example we covered of Comcast’s ongoing efforts to convince everyone not to be Comcast customers, we noted that the fact they helped get a customer fired from his accounting job was the kind of thing he could probably sue over. That said, even I didn’t anticipate the guy accusing Comcast of violating federal law.
The plaintiff, Conal O’Rourke, claims that after a series of calls with Comcast’s customer service department, Comcast complained to his employer about him and he was fired from his job. The lawsuit filed yesterday is based on the same alleged series of events. Mr. O’Rourke claims that he did not authorize Comcast to disclose his information to anyone else, but Comcast nevertheless disclosed personally identifying information about Mr. O’Rourke, including his name, to PricewaterhouseCoopers, where Mr. O’Rourke worked. The following can be attributed to Laura Moy, staff attorney at Public Knowledge:“If the facts in this complaint are true, they are extremely troubling. They would show that the nation’s largest cable provider exercised a complete disregard for federal privacy law.”
