Over the summer, the Timmer & Judkins attorneys attended Humanize My Hoodie's online Ally Workshop Experience. It opened our eyes and changed our lives. Most importantly, it gave us the...
Category: Discrimination
Police Sergeant Forced to Resign After Reporting Sex Discrimination
One of our many brave clients, West Union Police Sergeant Sierra Fox, was forced to resign after reporting sex discrimination and filing a complaint to protect her rights. Now the...
Settlement in Iowa Prison Guard Case
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ~Martin Luther...
Pushed Out Before They’re Ready, Older Workers Struggle to Recover
ProPublica and the Urban Institute recently released a data analysis that paints a bleak picture for older workers in the United States. This is consistent with what we’ve been seeing...
TJ co-counsels on Age Discrimination suit against the University of Iowa
The types of calls we get seem to ebb and flow. Sometimes, we get a lot of calls about disability discrimination. Other times, we have a lot of inquiries about...
Supreme Court Broadens Reach of Age Discrimination Law
Three years after enacting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, the United States Congress enacted the Age Discrimination...
Come on Iowa, You Can Do Better Than This. Pay Up!
Iowa is well-known for being the first in the nation to hold its presidential caucus. Iowa is also winning national recognition as a great place to live. Some might say Iowa is the...
Are we Doing Enough to Protect Pregnant Workers?
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article recounting horrifying stories of pregnant women, most of them working in a Verizon Wireless warehouse on the East Coast, and what happened...