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July 30, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that an Ohio nursing and rehabilitation facility agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve the agency's lawsuit accusing it of allowing staff to call a 59-year-old worker "gramps" and then firing him after he complained.
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July 30, 2024
The Tenth Circuit on Tuesday seemed to lean toward allowing a former United Parcel Service trainee a new shot at claiming he was unlawfully fired after a bout of heat exhaustion, scrutinizing various rationales that could support reviving his disability bias suit.
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July 30, 2024
A paving company has agreed to pay $1.25 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it failed to stop white employees from regularly using racial slurs toward Black colleagues and taking guns to work, according to a filing in Florida federal court.
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July 30, 2024
Former NFL coach Jon Gruden is making another push to keep his contract interference and conspiracy suit against the league in open court, calling on the entire Nevada Supreme Court to examine whether the case should be shuffled to arbitration.
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July 30, 2024
The Federal Circuit has upheld the removal of a Georgia administrative law judge over a pattern of "deficiencies" uncovered in his rulings, insubordination, and a workplace tirade in which he reportedly told a supervisor she was "worse than a Nazi," the court said Tuesday.
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July 30, 2024
A transgender woman slapped Liberty University with a lawsuit in Virginia federal court, accusing the Christian school of firing her when she came out as trans and signaled that she wanted to change her name.
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July 30, 2024
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has ended a former partner's race and disability bias suit, announcing a settlement in Los Angeles Superior Court, while continuing to push for arbitration in a separate discrimination suit, also filed in Los Angeles, where a former equity partner has accused the firm of gender discrimination and "unethical billing."
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July 30, 2024
A Los Angeles Fire Department captain and the union that represents him have sued the fire department and city in California federal court, accusing them of illegally reprimanding the captain for getting arrested alongside hundreds at a rally to support striking hotel workers.
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July 30, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel's ruling that a federal prison guard's Instagram posts denigrating a female co-worker can qualify as unlawful harassment will be referred to often, experts predicted, as social media posts increasingly cause workplace friction.
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July 30, 2024
Auto parts retailer Summit Racing Equipment has agreed to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it neglected its legal responsibility to report demographic information about its workforce, according to an Ohio federal court filing.
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July 30, 2024
A Florida federal judge made permanent a ban on a state law provision that prevents employers from promoting various sex- and race-based concepts in diversity training sessions after the state said it wouldn't challenge an Eleventh Circuit ruling upholding a preliminary injunction on the measure.
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July 29, 2024
The California Supreme Court on Monday revived a race bias suit brought by a longtime employee of the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, finding that her co-worker's one-time use of a racial slur may indeed have been so severe that it created a hostile work environment.
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July 29, 2024
As planet Earth continues to shatter heat records, experts say employers need to be thinking not only about worker safety, but also their obligations not to discriminate against employees who might be more vulnerable to extreme heat. Here are three questions employers should ask themselves about anti-discrimination law as they consider their heat safety plans.
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July 29, 2024
A California federal judge refused to throw out a proposed securities class action against Wells Fargo alleging it conducted sham interviews to meet diversity targets that triggered a stock drop when the truth came to light, finding Monday that the investors had plausibly alleged the bank's ill-will.
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July 29, 2024
"The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and his wife, Agustina Picasso, didn't do anything to stop the sexual harassment their former house manager told them she faced, while also cheating her out of wages, the worker said.
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July 29, 2024
A New York federal judge tossed a hospital worker's claims alleging a Service Employees International Union local failed to help address harassment she faced on the job, saying the claims against the union are preempted by federal law.
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July 29, 2024
A Panera franchisee and a former employee alerted a Pennsylvania federal court Monday that they've agreed to resolve the ex-worker's suit claiming she was harassed out of her job when she disclosed that she practiced neopaganism.
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July 29, 2024
The Seventh Circuit reopened two lawsuits Monday accusing a health system of unlawfully rejecting requests by a Christian nurse and pharmacy technician to be excused from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ruling the religious nature of their exemption bids wasn't nullified by secular aspects of their arguments.
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July 29, 2024
A Washington federal judge refused Monday to greenlight a class action accusing Amazon of demoting or firing workers who took time off for military service, saying they hadn't shown the thousands of would-be class members had enough in common.
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July 29, 2024
A trial court improperly ruled against a now-deceased U.S. Navy chaplain in his suit alleging that religious discrimination cost him promotions, the Fourth Circuit found, saying his 2021 death ended the case.
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July 29, 2024
A facility support services company was sued Sunday in Georgia federal court by a Black former employee who alleged she was fired so that a white worker could take her job supervising cleaning staff on the night shift at a Hyundai plant.
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July 29, 2024
A Bangladeshi man who worked as a director for Wells Fargo until he was fired last year is suing the bank for race discrimination and retaliation, saying his manager was "openly uncomfortable" with his ethnicity and was brazen in her mistreatment of him as a result.
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July 29, 2024
A property management company did nothing to stop a male worker from making inappropriate comments and threatening to shoot and torture a female manager, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a new lawsuit filed in Kentucky federal court.
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July 29, 2024
A New York federal judge has trimmed claims in an employment suit lodged against the Bronx district attorney's office by a woman who worked there, holding that others alleging discrimination under the Family and Medical Leave Act and a racially driven promotion could move forward.
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July 29, 2024
A California federal judge tossed several pay discrimination claims from a former BlackBerry executive's lawsuit claiming she was fired for reporting that the company's CEO sexually harassed her before taking the top job, saying she didn't show that she and the CEO had comparable positions before he assumed the role.