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August 28, 2024
An Iowa federal judge correctly tossed a mechanic's claim that a pork processing plant discriminated against him for taking Family and Medical Leave Act leave by firing him, the Eighth Circuit said Wednesday, but it said the judge should have preserved a claim that the discharge constituted FMLA interference.
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August 28, 2024
A South Carolina hospital urged the Fourth Circuit to reconsider blocking arbitration in a job applicant's suit alleging she was screened out based on a discriminatory physical agility test, arguing an appeals panel overlooked key details when concluding the application portal was unclear about the arbitration pact.
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August 27, 2024
The Seventh Circuit gave the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission another chance Tuesday to force Walmart to boost its disability accommodation training after a jury found it intentionally discriminated against an employee with Down syndrome, and affirmed what was originally a $125 million jury verdict later reduced to $419,000.
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August 27, 2024
A California federal judge agreed to throw out former X Corp. workers' suit claiming Elon Musk's takeover of the company formerly named Twitter caused women to lose their jobs, but the judge gave the workers another opportunity to amend their claims.
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August 27, 2024
A Washington state school district's insurer doesn't have to cover a nearly $1.8 million legal fee settlement the district reached with a high school football coach whom the U.S. Supreme Court found was wrongly suspended for praying on the 50-yard line after games, a state appeals court ruled.
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August 27, 2024
A plumbing and HVAC contractor has agreed to pay the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission $1.6 million to end a Florida federal suit claiming it created a racially hostile work environment by allowing the regular use of racial slurs and display of confederate flags.
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August 27, 2024
A white former football coach has asked the Eleventh Circuit to rethink its choice not to reopen his case alleging that a Georgia school district unlawfully refused to renew his contract because he's white, arguing that the decision deprives him of his right to have his day in court.
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August 27, 2024
A math teacher and state champion wrestling coach at a private school in Atlanta has claimed he was unlawfully forced out of a job after a hospitalization for a kidney infection, with one school official telling him to resign or be fired.
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August 27, 2024
Wells Fargo urged a North Carolina federal court to upend a jury's $22.1 million verdict in favor of a former investment director who alleged he was laid off so the company wouldn't have to accommodate his paralyzed colon and bladder, arguing the evidence presented doesn't support jurors' conclusions.
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August 27, 2024
A newly signed Illinois law barring workplace discrimination against caregivers is a robust addition to the growing stack of state measures shielding workers with familial responsibilities from uneven treatment, experts say.
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August 27, 2024
Two former employees of a Montgomery, Alabama, car insurance company didn't prove they lost their jobs because they were a few years away from retiring, an Alabama federal judge ruled, tossing the age discrimination and benefits lawsuit they filed after they were laid off.
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August 27, 2024
Reed Smith LLP has urged a New Jersey state court judge to reject a bid by a former attorney suing the firm for gender discrimination to obtain pay data going back nearly 20 years, arguing there is no legal basis to support expanding the scope of discovery.
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August 27, 2024
Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres LLC, one of the country's largest women-owned law firms, has added an employment attorney from Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP as a partner.
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August 27, 2024
A former Fulton County School District teacher sued the district in Georgia federal court Monday, alleging she was denied reasonable accommodations and forced to resign from her job after contracting COVID-19 in 2020.
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August 27, 2024
The Sixth Circuit backed a jury's verdict in favor of a commercial diver who accused an environmental cleanup company of subjecting her to weeks of belittlement and harassment, finding she'd presented sufficient evidence demonstrating that supervisors and colleagues ostracized her because of her gender.
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August 27, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit has said a Florida law can take effect that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restricts it for adults, granting the state's bid to scrap an injunction barring the law while it appeals a lower court ruling that found the statute unconstitutional.
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August 27, 2024
A Massachusetts woman on Tuesday dropped her proposed class action claiming Morgan Stanley illegally used protected criminal history information to discriminate against applicants, after a federal judge ruled she couldn't advance the lawsuit under a pseudonym.
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August 27, 2024
The Vermont Supreme Court has affirmed an administrative law judge's decision not to issue a declaratory ruling whether off-duty medical cannabis use counts as misconduct for the purposes of terminating and denying benefits to a former transportation company employee.
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August 26, 2024
Although performance improvement plans can be a valuable tool for companies to steer underperforming workers back on track, the process of placing employees on PIPs can be filled with missteps that can make such remedial efforts a breeding ground for bias or retaliation claims, experts say. Here, employer-side attorneys look at five PIP-related mistakes employers make that can land them in legal hot water.
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August 26, 2024
The Fifth Circuit backed the dismissal of a teacher's suit claiming he was pulled from his teaching job and placed into a support role because of his older age, saying Monday he failed to show that discrimination drove the Texas school district's decision rather than his poor performance.
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August 26, 2024
Wesleyan University denied funding for a Catholic ski trip, hosted a group of sacrilegious mock nuns and ultimately fired a Catholic chaplain who complained that a Muslim colleague was unfairly terminated, according to an amended complaint in Connecticut federal court.
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August 26, 2024
Uber Technologies Inc. can't use an arbitration provision in an employment agreement to block a Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission investigation into one of its driver's claims that the company discriminated against him, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.
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August 26, 2024
Alaska Airlines Inc. and Horizon Air Industries Inc. will pay $4.75 million to resolve a class action alleging it shortchanged pilots who took short-term military leave while allowing others to claim pay for jury duty or bereavement leave, a policy the service members called biased.
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August 26, 2024
Disney and Lucasfilm want the Ninth Circuit to weigh whether the First Amendment protects an artistic organization's right to control casting decisions, urging a California federal court to let it immediately appeal an order that allowed a former Star Wars actor's political bias lawsuit to move forward.
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August 26, 2024
The Harlem Globetrotters' parent company and its media arm shouldn't be able to escape a player's suit alleging she was cut from the team after rejecting its general manager's romantic advances, a Georgia federal judge said, rejecting the entities' arguments that they weren't properly notified about the allegations.