Hacker News with Generative AI: Discrimination

I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023) (michaels.world)
I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind

Accessibility, hCaptcha, Discrimination

410 points by blindgeek 15 days ago | 269 comments

TSMC Arizona sued for race and citizenship discrimination (tomshardware.com)

TSMC, Lawsuits, Discrimination, Arizona

10 points by aragonite 19 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone been in this situation? (ycombinator.com)
Have you ever been promised ADA accommodations, then the company didn't provide them for a significant part of the year (5-6 months). Then they gave you a low year end rating based off of opinion despite higher than expected output for your level?

ADA Accommodations, Employment, Performance Reviews, Discrimination

15 points by giantg2 22 days ago | 11 comments

Machines of Loving Grace (clunyjournal.com)
Last year, at a Panera-catered “new faculty appreciation” luncheon, the Dean of my college told me—as I folded my hands across my seven-months-pregnant belly—that I should look for long-term academic employment elsewhere.

Academia, Gender Bias, Discrimination

233 points by greenie_beans 29 days ago | 59 comments

Ask HN: How is job search going for you? (ycombinator.com)
I left my job in 2023 voluntarily after immense harassment by management for taking paternity leave. I needed it since our baby birth and first few months did not go as we expected. Company had 6 months of parental leave policy but my manager (a woman!) still discriminated. Our baby is fine now and growing well.<p>I took 6 months off and then started working on my own project that turned into a startup.

Job Searching, Startups, Discrimination

27 points by logicalxor 41 days ago | 21 comments

Muslims in India face discrimination after restaurants display workers' names (theguardian.com)
Muslims in India say they have been fired from their jobs and face the closure of their businesses after two states brought in a “discriminatory” policy making it mandatory for restaurants to publicly display the names of all their employees.

India, Discrimination, Religion, Muslims, Business

5 points by Tomte 50 days ago | 0 comments

Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees (siliconvalley.com)

Cognizant, Discrimination, Lawsuits, Employment, India

443 points by Melchizedek 55 days ago | 415 comments

Cognizant Discriminated Against Non-Indian Workers, US Jury Says (bloomberg.com)
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. engaged in a pattern of discriminatory conduct toward non-Indian workers and should pay punitive damages to compensate employees who suffered harm, a US jury found.

Discrimination, Lawsuits, Technology, Employment, India

49 points by jmsflknr 56 days ago | 15 comments

Dart: The Disability Attitude Re-Adjustment Tool (2015) (kingqueen.org.uk)
I’ve written a Guide for Disabled People to Sue Service Providers for Disability Discrimination, as Unrepresented Litigants in Person in England. (Otherwise known as DART – the Disability Attitude Readjustment Tool.) Suing isn’t as difficult or risky as it might sound. Given that only the person discriminated against can take action, and legal aid is effectively non-existent, this is now pretty much the only way to enforce one’s legal rights.

Disability Rights, Law, UK, Accessibility, Discrimination

3 points by fanf2 82 days ago | 0 comments

Algorithmic Wage Discrimination (2023) (columbialawreview.org)
Recent technological developments related to the extraction and processing of data have given rise to concerns about a reduction of privacy in the workplace. For many low-income and subordinated racial minority workforces in the United States, however, on-the-job data collection and algorithmic decisionmaking systems are having a more profound yet overlooked impact: These technologies are fundamentally altering the experience of labor and undermining economic stability and job mobility.

Labor, Discrimination, Data Privacy, Artificial Intelligence

149 points by tacon 83 days ago | 101 comments

Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women (2018) (theguardian.com)

Education, Japan, Discrimination, Gender Bias

14 points by hammock 89 days ago | 0 comments

X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum (fortune.com)

Employment Law, Ireland, Discrimination, Business

488 points by pzmarzly 108 days ago | 440 comments

Steve Teixeira sues Mozilla, alleging discrimination after cancer diagnosis (geekwire.com)

Lawsuit, Discrimination, Mozilla, Cancer, Technology

24 points by TiredOfLife 142 days ago | 9 comments

Mozilla sued for discrimination by former CEO-to-be (locals.com)