Due to the medical consensus that breastfeeding reduces major health risks to both babies and mothers, the United States is waging an ongoing struggle to improve breastfeeding duration rates. Yet legal protections for breastfeeding parents in the workplace have not kept pace with the U.S.'s...

In the traditional Becker model of employer discrimination, discriminatory behavior arises from a utility-maximizing owner who balances firm profits against the disutility of hiring workers from the disadvantaged demographic group. However, in the modern firm, many human resource decisions are...

Human rights codes now prohibit discrimination of various kinds, and provide boards and officials to hear complaints and to administer penalties. The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected the idea of creating a new tort for wrongful discrimination leaving these issues to be decided under the...