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September 09, 2024
An Ohio nursing home will pay $30,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation discovered reasonable cause to believe that a manager drove a worker to quit by harassing her because of her race, the EEOC said.
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September 06, 2024
When California's legislative session wrapped up last month, a failed bill addressing bias by artificial intelligence tools raised eyebrows. But experts say they expect Golden State lawmakers and regulators to take plenty of swings at tackling AI and discrimination in the near future.
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September 06, 2024
Celebrity doctor Carlon Colker has withdrawn his demands seeking pre-litigation discovery materials from the woman who has accused Vince McMahon and former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. executives of sexually assaulting and trafficking her.
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September 06, 2024
A Catholic employer organization urged a North Dakota federal court to block the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations and updated workplace harassment guidelines, arguing its members face a looming threat of agency action over a refusal to accommodate abortion and infertility treatments.
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September 06, 2024
The former nursing director of a PruittHealth facility in northwest Georgia has sued his former employer claiming a homophobic work environment, alleging that he was subjected to antigay abuse from his coworkers and patients alike before eventually being fired on bogus grounds.
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September 06, 2024
A travel nurse alleged in a lawsuit that Emory Healthcare Inc. unlawfully terminated her three-month contract after she complained that allowing her to administer peritoneal dialysis on Black patients without proper training would be "akin to treating those patients as guinea pigs."
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September 06, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission slapped FedEx with a suit Friday claiming the delivery giant unlawfully screened out drivers with disabilities by barring them from work if they required any form of medical restriction, even if it didn't prevent them from doing their jobs.
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September 06, 2024
A former paralegal for Allentown, Pennsylvania, firm Zator Law LLC claims in a federal Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit that her termination was a result of the firm's discrimination of her panic disorder and retaliation for her request for accommodations.
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September 06, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a group of workers' attempt to revive their claim that Amazon owed them pay for time they spent undergoing anti-theft screenings after their shifts and during breaks.
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September 06, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a wage suit against Charter Communications alleging overtime pay violations. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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September 06, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge said an ex-saleswoman can't collect a six-figure back pay award after a jury found she was unlawfully fired from an information technology company over her mental health issues but only gave her $1 in damages, noting that she found another job following her termination.
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September 06, 2024
A California-based fast food franchisee has agreed to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it spurned its legal duty to share demographic information about its employees, the latest company to settle the agency's claims over tardy filings.
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September 06, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel didn't address whether a former Alaska Airlines pilot advanced enough evidence to show the airline denied him accrued vacation and sick time while on military stints, the company said, urging the panel to revisit its decision flipping the airline's earlier win.
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September 05, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit backed the city of Miami's win over a building services employee's lawsuit claiming she was fired because she's a Black lesbian woman, saying Thursday she failed to take issue with the trial court's rationale for tossing the case.
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September 05, 2024
Democratic attorneys general and workers groups have backed the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission through amicus briefs at the Eighth Circuit as the agency fights a red state challenge of its rule allowing workers to seek abortion-related accommodations. Here's a look at the arguments the rule's backers are deploying at the appeals court.
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September 05, 2024
A Michigan federal judge tossed a worker's suit claiming he was fired from an iron casting company for taking medical leave to treat his bipolar disorder, ruling that his claims were brought to court too late.
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September 05, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Thursday it had filed federal lawsuits alleging that a Virginia food hall operator and United Airlines hadn't done enough to protect their respective employees from managers who used racial slurs.
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September 05, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit reinstated a white policy director's suit Thursday claiming he was canned by Miami-Dade County because of age and racial bias, ruling a trial court jumped the gun by tossing his case before he was given the chance to collect proof.
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September 05, 2024
A former assistant public defender in North Carolina has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to reconsider his bench ruling siding with the federal judiciary in her due process and equal protection case, saying the facts all point in her favor and the judge misapplied the law in rendering his decision.
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September 05, 2024
A New York state grand jury may indict Harvey Weinstein for additional sex crimes as soon as Friday based on allegations from three new complaining witnesses, a source familiar with the proceedings told Law360.
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September 05, 2024
Southwest Airlines failed to restore the paid sick hours to workers as part of a settlement it reached with the city of Oakland in 2020 and denied employees their right to take sick leave, the city said in a complaint in California state court.
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September 05, 2024
The Fifth Circuit breathed new life into a former patient care assistant's lawsuit alleging a Houston hospital fired her for reporting that colleagues called her "white trash," saying she shouldn't be faulted for a tardy presuit charge when the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission caused the delay.
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September 04, 2024
A retired Discover Financial Services executive vice president sued the company in Illinois federal court on Wednesday alleging age and gender discrimination, saying she was the only woman to lose over $7 million in unvested equity awards over a credit card misclassification issue for which she wasn't even responsible.
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September 04, 2024
A Florida federal magistrate judge has recommended against dismissing a suit by a former University of Miami surgery chair who says she was discriminated against because of her race and gender and demoted because she complained about it.
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September 04, 2024
A Florida restaurant owner propositioned a female server and sexually harassed her daily on the job, according to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit filed Wednesday, claiming the business fired her after she warned that she was going to do something about his behavior.