Ms Mowlam also indicated that the government would proceed with reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, which is 93% Protestant, and further efforts to promote equal opportunity in employment both undeniable gestures towards the nationalist minority.

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He is a former trial attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a former partner in a management law firm.

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His career there ended in a nasty dispute in 1994 in which Durand filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit against the drugmaker.

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In January 2002, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hit another DeCoster company with allegations that its supervisors sexually assaulted and harassed female employees, some of whom were in the country illegally, and threatened to retaliate against them if they complained.

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The passing of the 1986 equal-employment-opportunity legislation removed most legal barriers to women in the workplace, but discrimination remains rampant.

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Roughly 12, 000 sexual harassment charges filed each year in the U.S., according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Nadler is a partner at Reed Smith LLP who represents employers at all stages of both traditional labor relations and employment law matters, including cases in federal and state court, arbitration, and mediation, as well as matters before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and various other federal and state agencies.

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