White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden must have misspoken when he told Al Jazeera last month that one of his top priorities is to reach out to ...

A new study by Carnegie Mellon University found that in the most Republican states in the country, employers may be less likely to interview job candidates whose social networking profiles indicate ...

Muslim woman Samantha Elauf (right), who was denied a sales job at an Abercrombie Kids store in Tulsa in 2008, stands with her mother, Majda, outside the Supreme Court on Feb. 25. Reuters WASHINGTON — ...

Job seekers nowadays typically reveal personal information online that is not easily detectable in job interviews, and which often is illegal for employers to request or use in the hiring process. If ...

An employer's attempt to enforce a dress code draws sympathy and outrage. May 6, 2011 -- A young woman applies for a job as a waitress at a diner and is told the position is hers, on one condition: ...

Federal civil rights lawyers on Wednesday sued clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch on behalf of an 18-year-old Muslim woman who alleges the company’s store at the Great Mall in Milpitas refused to ...

STOCKHOLM — A Muslim woman in Sweden who said she was discriminated against in a job interview for refusing to shake hands on religious grounds has been awarded financial compensation by a labor court ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Nedal Zoya graduated with a master’s degree in social work and decided to apply for a job in an orphanage in India. However, to her surprise, the CEO decided not to offer her the ...

The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, ruled against Abercrombie and Fitch in a religious discrimination case involving Samantha Elauf, a Muslim job applicant who wore a head scarf. WASHINGTON—The ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday revived an employment discrimination lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch, which had refused to hire a Muslim woman because she wore a head scarf. The company ...