by Kevin Burton I am guessing you are like me and had no previous idea what “fly tipping” is. Fly tipping is “the activity of illegally leaving waste or unwanted objects next to a road, in a field, in a river, etc.” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. According to wordhistories.net, here’s how …
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Investigation Shows Dollar Store Cheating
by Barry Yeoman and Jocelyn C Zuckerman The Guardian On a cloudy winter day, a state government inspector named Ryan Coffield walked into a Family Dollar store in Windsor, North Carolina, carrying a scanner gun and a laptop. Inside the store, which sits along a three-lane road in a county of peanut growers …
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If Fired Illegally, Would You Want Job Back?
by Kevin Burton UPS will pay $150,000 to settle yet another employment discrimination case, according to published reports. But this story has a twist I haven’t seen before. The man illegally fired in violation of the federal Americans With Disabilities Act by the Atlanta-based package delivery company will be, or maybe has been, …
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Papa John’s To Pay $175K For Discrimination
by Kevin Burton Giant pizza-delivery chain Papa John’s will cough up a big chunk of dough, for employment discrimination against a blind man, according to multiple published reports. Louisville-based Papa John’s is the fourth-largest pizza delivery chain in the US, according to USA Today. On its website, Papa John’s lists “the values that …
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Café Owner To Pay Fine For Discrimination
by Lisa Steacy CTV News The owner of a B.C. café has been ordered to pay a woman, who is legally blind, $12,000 in compensation for discrimination after she was refused service because she had a guide dog. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled on the case last week and the decision was …
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