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Dec 29, 1999
Religious pressure at Texas vet clinic leads to $150,000 EEOC settlement — Employment Law Weekly
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Employment Law Weekly An Arlington, Texas veterinary clinic agreed earlier this month to pay $150,000 to six employees who claimed in a suit backed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the company unlawfully pressured employees to subscribe to beliefs of the Church of Scientology (EEOC v. I-20 Animal Medical Center, N.D. Tex, 398CV2316-X, settlement approved 12/2/99). In a complaint filed Sept. 30 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, EEOC alleged that I-20 Animal Medical Center violated religious ...
Sep 28, 1997
Employee accuses real estate firm of turning on Scientology e-meter — New York Observer
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Dylan Foley ,
Devin Leonard Source:
New York Observer Several months after she went to work at a Manhattan real estate firm, Karen Schwartz says her boss, developer Lawrence Feldman, ordered her to take an unusual series of night classes. Ms. Schwartz says he informed her they were simply "business courses." But when she arrived at the classroom, Ms. Schwartz couldn't have been more astonished.
According to a complaint Ms. Schwartz has filed with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she was subjected to something close to an indoctrination into ...
Sep 1, 1997
Special look at the Church of Scientology [exact date unknown] — Lotus magazine
Apr 14, 1997
Internet firm Luckman surfs rough waters — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Karen Kaplan Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A visitor to the Internet World trade show in Los Angeles last month would have come away with the impression that Luckman Interactive was an industry powerhouse. The 3-year-old firm, which makes software and Internet directories, hung a giant banner on the side of the Los Angeles Convention Center—the only company to spring for the expense. Its booth was among the biggest at the show, rivaling those of Netscape, Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems. The company has raised more than $20 ...
Nov 3, 1996
The evil web of the cults — Sunday Mail (UK)
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Sunday Mail (UK) One of the Church's most powerful groups is waging a holy war on the evil tide of brainwashing religious cults sweeping Scotland. Woman's Guild bosses are to hold a special summit aimed at stamping out the growing menace of the fanatics. Today, we reveal how many young Scots have fallen under the spell of these maniacs. The Guild plans two days of talks at Carberry Tower, near Edinburgh. Experts, victims and religious leaders from all Churches will debate the menace of ...
Oct 13, 1995
Judge dismisses suit over firing — The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
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The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola dismissed the lawsuit Tuesday. The action came after Polozola adopted a report on the matter by U.S. Magistrate Stephen Riedlinger. [...]
Apr 24, 1995
How Scientology's message came to Allstate / California member says training materials for managers used church's teachings — Globe and Mail (Canada)More: link
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John Saunders Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Toronto — Allstate Insurance Co. of Canada appears to have flunked its free personality test last month after word got out that its U.S. parent put managers through training sessions based on doctrines of Scientology, the California-based church with a keen sense of cash flow. Question: Was such training done in Canada too? Allstate's answer: No. Correct answer: Yes. At least a little. Scientology is the brainchild of the late L. Ron Hubbard, a paperback novelist who in 1950 published a ...
Apr 10, 1995
Letters to the Editor / Scientology in the workplace — Wall Street JournalMore: link
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Wall Street Journal One thing was undisputed in your March 22 page-one article, "How Allstate Applied Scientology Methods to Train Its Managers," about management seminars delivered to agents at Allstate Insurance Co.: the management technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard works. As one of the sales managers who took the seminar summed it up, Mr. Hubbard's management technology is "very powerful in its simplicity." This sentiment is echoed by hundreds of thousands of business owners, executives, employees and professionals around the world. It seems ...
Mar 23, 1995
Allstate admits training was 'unacceptable' — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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The Oregonian (Portland) Thousands of workers participated in seminars that taught them to disregard ethics in the quest for productivity Allstate Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it hired a consultant who taught "unacceptable" Church of Scientology management principles to the insurance company's agents and supervisors between 1988 and 1992. The company denied allegations some workers were hounded, intimidated and wrongfully fired as a result of the training program. Scientology is a religious-scientific movement founded in the 1950s by the late author L. Ron Hubbard that ...
Mar 22, 1995
In whose hands? / How Allstate applied Scientology methods to train its managers — Wall Street JournalMore: link
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Rochelle Sharpe Source:
Wall Street Journal Two years ago, an Allstate agent stood up at Sears's annual meeting to ask what then seemed a bizarre question. "To what extent," he inquired, "are the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology present today in Allstate and in Sears?" Edward Brennan, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Wayne Hedien, then-chairman of Sears's Allstate Insurance Co. unit, both appeared bewildered. Mr. Brennan said he had no knowledge of any relationship at all. Mr. Hedien said he didn't even ...
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