New York City residents are well aware of the current state of the national and local economy, and the difficulty of locating work when being unemployed for an extended period of time.  With so many forms of employment discrimination, including, but not limited to, race discrimination, gender discrimination, religious discrimination and sexual orientation discrimination, a …

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Recently, New York City was ordered to pay as much as $128 million in back wages to minority candidates who took the New York City Fire Department’s (“FDNY”) screening test but were never hired, according to a ruling by a federal judge who had deemed the test discriminatory in violation of the disparate impact section …

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