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Nov 22, 2009
Concern at Governing magazine over its sale to Scientologists — New York Times
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Tim Arango Source:
New York Times Over the last several months, The St. Petersburg Times published a series of scathing articles on the Church of Scientology under the rubric “The Truth Rundown.” In 1980, the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for an investigation of the church’s inner workings.
Coverage of Scientology has long been an important story for The St. Petersburg Times, given that the church’s spiritual headquarters is located in nearby Clearwater, Fla.
So it came as a bit of a shock when, on Friday, the ...
Jan 14, 2009
Chicago dentist to settle forced Scientology, harassment case — Chicago TribuneMore: articles.chicagotribune.com
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James P. Miller Source:
Chicago Tribune A Chicago dentist has agreed to pay $462,500 to settle federal allegations that he violated U.S. discrimination laws by sexually harassing workers and by forcing employees who wanted to keep their jobs to submit to indoctrination in the tenets of Scientology. The Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed a civil lawsuit against James L. Orrington in September 2007, asserting he had discriminated against 18 employees by subjecting them to sexual propositions, comments and improper touching. The suit ...
Sep 26, 2007
Dental Hygiene — Chicagoist
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Margaret Lyons Source:
Chicagoist The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Dr. James Orrington, DDS, alleging religious and sexual harassment. The suit, filed on behalf of ten employees — 9 women and 1 man? 10 women? — claims the South Side dentist required employees to recite passages from Scientology literature before he'd give them their checks. Three employees were fired after they lodged a complaint with the EEOC in 2005, and another two were fired after they complained about the harassment. According ...
Sep 21, 2007
Southwest Side dentist accused of sexual, religious harassment — Daily SouthtownMore: icsahome.com
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Mike Nolan Source:
Daily Southtown Feds: Workers propositioned, forced to learn about Scientology
A Southwest Side dentist sexually harassed female workers and forced them to recite Scientology formulas in order to get their paychecks, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday.
The EEOC sued Dr. James L. Orrington on behalf of 10 former female employees, including three who were fired by the doctor shortly after they lodged complaints with the commission, said Ann Henry, an EEOC lawyer. The dentist fired two others after they complained ...
Dec 4, 2006
Woman sues former employer for religious discrimination — Springfield Business JournalMore: groups.yahoo.com
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Matthew Wagner Source:
Springfield Business Journal A Springfield woman has alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired in 2004 from a Branson West company for refusing to convert to Scientology, the chosen religion of her boss and several co-workers. Brianne Shahan filed the suit against Richmond Monroe Group Inc. in U.S. District Court last month. Shahan claims her former employer violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allegedly pressuring her to divorce her husband and become a Scientologist. According to its ...
Aug 18, 2005
The way to more questions // Scientology affiliate The Way To Happiness of Glendale teaches honesty in schools but, according to LAPD and others, utilizes dishonest promotions — Pasadena WeeklyMore: link
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Carl Kozlowski Source:
Pasadena Weekly If a high-ranking LAPD official can be believed, perhaps the Scientology-affiliated The Way To Happiness should take a page from its own teachings. Two of the Glendale-based nonprofit organization’s 21 guides to achieving happiness are “Be Worthy of Trust” and “Seek to Live the Truth,” neither of which were followed apparently in the group’s dealings with the LAPD and a city in Texas. Officials with the group, which over the past two decades has distributed booklets of the same name to ...
Sep 13, 2002
EEOC: Employees illegally fired — Valley Morning Star (Texas)
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Author(s):
Allen Essex Source:
Valley Morning Star (Texas) Harlingen — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit on behalf of former employees of Harlingen Family Dentistry who refused to attend training courses reportedly containing scientology doctrine. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Brownsville, alleges religious discrimination and retaliation against the workers. According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, scientology is "a religious movement begun in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard which teaches immortality and reincarnation and claims a sure psychotherapeutic method for freeing the individual ...
Apr 1, 2000
Judicial Reports — Security Management
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Teresa Anderson Source:
Security Management [...] ELSEWHERE IN THE COURTS... [...] * Discrimination. Owners of a veterinary clinic in Texas have agreed to pay $150,000 to six employees who claimed they were unlawfully pressured to follow the tenets of the Church of Scientology. The employees charged that they were subjected to discrimination because of their refusal to join the church, act in accordance with its philosophy, or participate in religious activities at work. The case, which was brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, was settled ...
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 29, 1997
Scientology allegations and a real estate stock flotation — New York Observer
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Author(s):
Dylan Foley Source:
New York Observer Feldman Equities, a medium-sized midtown real estate management firm is set for a $290 million stock offering in late September, with heavyhitting investors that includes G.E. Capital and Morgan Stanley. This flotation may be marred by an impending religious and employment discrimination lawsuit charging that company CEO Lawrence Feldman forced employees at the firm to take Scientology courses and fired those who refused. According to papers filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April, Karen Schwartz, a 38-old former property ...
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 ...
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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Author(s):
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 ...
Mar 21, 1993
Bittersweet - Cocolat and Scientology / Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology — San Francisco Examiner (California)More: stop-wise.biz , link
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Erin McCormick Source:
San Francisco Examiner (California) Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology by Erin McCormick of the Examiner Staff It was once the sweetheart of the Bay Area business world - a woman-run chocolate company that grew from a single storefront to a national success. Now, two years since an employee's embezzlement forced the sale of Cocolat Chocolate Co., an unlikely mix is brewing at the company's Hayward plant: Scientology and chocolate. The mixture has been volatile. Cocolat is the latest ...
Jun 25, 1989
Is firm teaching skills -- or religion? EEOC to decide — Sacramento Bee (California)
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