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Alexandra Olson

Fortune

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Trump administration directs all federal DEI staff be put on leave in preparation for being laid off

The Office of Personnel Management directed agencies to place DEI office staffers on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday and take down all public...

22.01.2025 10

Fortune

Alexandra Olson

Economists say America’s gender wage gap is getting worse again—the first major setback for working women in 20 years

The Labor Department’s chief economist said it’s too soon to tell whether 2023 was a blip or the start of a worrisome new trend.

16.10.2024 10

Fortune

Alexandra Olson

Lilly Ledbetter, whose fight for equal pay led to the 2009 Fair Pay Act, dies at 86

Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement,, has died at 86.

15.10.2024 4

Fortune

Alexandra Olson

VC firm forced to close Black women’s grant program after lawsuit from conservative activists

The settlement came two months after a U.S. federal court of appeals panel ordered the Atlanta-Based Fearless Fund to suspend the Strivers Grant...

11.09.2024 1

Fortune

Alexandra Olson

Some hotel workers clean up 17 rooms each shift and are going on strike

Some 10,000 hotel workers represented by the UNITE HERE union walked off the job Sunday at 25 hotels in eight cities.

02.09.2024 2

Fortune

Alexandra Olson