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TexasTowelie

(112,146 posts)
Tue Nov 16, 2021, 02:48 PM Nov 2021

Dems Senate Staffer Wins Millions Over Sexual Discrimination

For the second time in as many years, a jury has awarded a major victory to legislative staffer Talonya Adams in her damning discrimination case against the Arizona Senate.

In 2015, Democratic Senate leadership fired Adams, a Black woman, from her job as a policy advisor. She argues that her termination was retaliation for speaking out against the discrimination she faced in the workplace, where she was paid far lower than her white male colleagues.

A jury agreed, awarding Adams a towering $2.75 million in damages, on Wednesday.

It is the second time that Adams, who represented herself in federal court, has received a favorable judgment in the case. In 2019, a jury awarded her $1 million. This time around she's slated to receive more than double that amount on top of winning her job back with a $50,000-a-year bump in pay.

Read more: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/senate-staffer-talonya-adams-wins-275-million-in-discrimination-lawsuit-12401836

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Dems Senate Staffer Wins Millions Over Sexual Discrimination (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2021 OP
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Wouldn't it be 'sex' discrimination as opposed to 'sexual'? Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2021 #2
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. Wouldn't it be 'sex' discrimination as opposed to 'sexual'?
Tue Nov 16, 2021, 04:25 PM
Nov 2021

Could be wrong, but it sounds weird to call it 'sexual discrimination' to me, I don't know why

Anyways, good for her! Sounds like her case was pretty iron-clad.

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