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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.
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August 26, 2024
Jersey City is fighting the Garden State's cannabis legalization law and argues it conflicts with federal gun control legislation, while the bankrupt former chief financial officer of McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP is facing civil claims he defrauded the firm and paid himself millions in unauthorized salary.
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August 26, 2024
Two top Republican lawmakers asked the head of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday to explain the circumstances behind a since-abandoned proposal to furlough agency staff for a day as a cost-saving measure, saying the plan was a signal of "mismanagement."
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August 23, 2024
Former Northwestern University baseball employees alleging they were fired in retaliation for outing now-fired coach Jim Foster's abusive behavior should be permanently blocked from pursuing those allegations because they have failed to outline sufficient claims despite receiving a second chance to do so, the university has argued.
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August 23, 2024
The North Carolina Department of Justice will face an attorney's race and sex discrimination claims at trial after a federal judge rejected the agency's bid for summary judgment, finding that a dispute remains about whether there was a legitimate reason for not promoting her.
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August 23, 2024
The Eighth Circuit will conduct a full court review of a split panel's recent decision to revive a former manager's lawsuit alleging that a Hardee's franchisee fired her because she has diabetes, granting the employer's bid for a rehearing.
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August 23, 2024
New York City urged a federal court Friday to reject attorneys' $8 million fee request for representing white fire protection inspectors who claimed they were subjected to the same racist pay disparities their nonwhite colleagues alleged they faced, saying it would divert too much money away from the workers.
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August 23, 2024
A former Reed Smith LLP attorney suing the firm for gender discrimination has told a New Jersey state court that the firm must turn over pay data for nonequity partners stretching back years for her to make her case.
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August 23, 2024
Delta Air Lines' recent win in a lawsuit alleging the company bungled its investigation of a flight attendant's alleged rape demonstrates how tough it is for employees to challenge workplace probes in court, experts said.
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August 23, 2024
An Atlanta-area industrial machinery manufacturer was hit with a sex discrimination lawsuit by an employee who says she was berated by her boss after reporting the boss' son for sexual harassment.
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August 23, 2024
Illinois employers will soon be prohibited from discriminating against workers based on their caregiver duties at home under legislation signed by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.
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August 23, 2024
A former employee at a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary is suing her ex-employer, saying she was subjected to "persistent and horrible" sexual harassment and denied her promised pay and benefits, leading to what she describes as wrongful constructive termination.
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August 23, 2024
A former New Jersey assistant prosecutor did not provide a clear enough link between complaints he filed against his boss and an alleged retaliatory disciplinary action, a New Jersey appellate panel ruled Friday when it dismissed his whistleblower suit.
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August 23, 2024
A North Carolina movie theater refused to rehire a bartender because she'd previously complained to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that she'd been let go after announcing her pregnancy, the agency said in a new lawsuit filed in federal court.
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August 23, 2024
A Georgia attorney and the Atlanta-based intellectual property firm where he used to work have reached a settlement ending the attorney's lawsuit alleging the firm violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act by cutting his hours and then firing him after he returned from his annual two-week tour of duty with the Air Force Reserve.
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August 23, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential final sign-off on a $4 million deal to resolve a wage and hour class action against Arthur J. Gallagher Service Co. LLC. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.