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August 07, 2024
A Boston federal judge ruled Tuesday that Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC can't force arbitration in a proposed class action claiming the bank illegally used protected criminal history information to discriminate against job applicants.
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August 07, 2024
Massachusetts now joins a continually growing chorus of states with pay transparency laws, and with a particularly robust equal pay statute on the books already, employers need to be careful about harmonizing their compliance efforts, attorneys say.
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August 07, 2024
The Fourth Circuit reopened a former salesperson's lawsuit alleging a wine and spirits distributor fired her because she rejected the owner's sexual advances after they broke up, saying a trial is needed to delineate when the relationship ended.
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August 07, 2024
Technology company L3Harris can't toss a former worker's claims that he was fired for being Christian after he complained that his new boss was harassing him, a Texas federal judge ruled, but his claims of age bias and retaliation lacked enough proof to stay in court.
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August 07, 2024
A Seattle federal judge approved an $875,000 deal to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing a staffing company of refusing to assign women to certain jobs.
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August 06, 2024
A former Thompson Hine LLP attorney's sex harassment suit should be dismissed for failing to show that gender bias had anything to do with the workplace conflicts that arose during her tenure, the firm argued in a New York federal court filing.
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August 06, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday refused to grant en banc rehearing to a former Uber driver after a three-judge panel found he failed to support his allegations that the ride-hailing giant's rating system is racially biased.
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August 06, 2024
Florida officials have implored the Eleventh Circuit to allow enforcement of the state's recently enacted law restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults, arguing that a federal judge's order to enjoin enforcement of the law was erroneous.
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August 06, 2024
Detroit casino MGM Grand has urged a Michigan federal court to not grant default judgment to former employees protesting its vaccination policies, arguing the request is drastic and that any delay in producing discovery documents was justified and harmless.
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August 06, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced for a running mate in the 2024 election a person with a progressive labor and employment record, one that could signal how a future presidential administration could treat those issues, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores Walz’s employment law record.
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August 06, 2024
A former vice president of a Denver-area food biotech firm has filed a suit claiming the company violated Colorado's gender and age anti-discrimination laws when it fired and ultimately replaced her after she finished training a younger male successor, who was intended to only take over some of her duties.
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August 06, 2024
Amazon asked a Washington federal judge to end a proposed class action accusing it of demoting or terminating workers who take time off for military service, arguing that one of the plaintiffs was inadvertently fired while the other wasn't qualified for a promotion because he was "unprofessional."
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August 06, 2024
A janitorial franchiser told a California federal court that a worker's suit claiming he was misclassified as an independent contractor cannot stand after the Ninth Circuit kept in arbitration his individual California Private Attorneys General Act claims.
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August 06, 2024
The Seventh Circuit backed a pharmaceutical company's win over a lawsuit claiming it refused to promote and then fired a senior scientist because she was a Chinese woman in her 40s with back pain, finding her disability rendered her unable to complete crucial parts of her job.
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August 06, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday reinstated a video editor's lawsuit alleging a Christian-owned company sacked him for taking COVID-19 precautions, endorsing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's position on religious nonconformity allegations.
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August 06, 2024
Georgia-based medical provider Premise Health has asked a federal judge to dismiss a former nurse's race and pregnancy bias suit, saying she was canned because of her "egregious" violations of COVID-19 safety protocols rather than her desire to pump breast milk on the job.
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August 06, 2024
A union representing Latino workers sued the city of Chicago and Home Depot in Illinois federal court Tuesday, alleging that city police officers moonlighting as store security subjected migrants seeking day labor work near the home improvement store to excessive force and racist insults in violation of their civil rights.
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August 06, 2024
Labor and employment firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP is growing its San Diego footprint with the addition of a new outpost manned by an office managing partner and three associates who made the leap from Jackson Lewis PC.
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August 06, 2024
A commercial laundry company has agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it prioritized hiring Hispanic workers over those of other races and pushed employees into gendered roles.
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August 06, 2024
The former controller for a former NFL player's reptile shipping business has, for now, dropped her lawsuit claiming the ex-linebacker sexually abused her at work and fired her after his wife discovered the conduct, apparently accepting the court's condition that she pay the player's costs and certain attorney fees.
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August 06, 2024
Davis Saperstein & Salomon PC said eight former employees and the attorney representing them should be sanctioned for filing a pair of lawsuits in New Jersey state court alleging the firm violated wage and discrimination laws.
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August 06, 2024
Defense contractor Parsons Corp. urged an Alabama federal judge to disqualify Maynard Nexsen PC from representing a former engineer in his unlawful termination case against the company, saying the firm was also representing Parsons when he filed his case.
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August 06, 2024
A staffing firm that matches people with disabilities to jobs they can do from home agreed to pay $1.25 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming the nonprofit categorically rejected blind or low-vision applicants, according to a filing in Texas federal court.
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August 06, 2024
Harvard University will have to face a federal civil rights complaint alleging it turned a blind eye to antisemitic intimidation of Jewish students in the wake of Hamas' terror attack on Israel, a Boston federal judge said Tuesday.
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August 06, 2024
MoneyGram has agreed to settle a former employee's suit claiming she was fired for taking medical leave to treat a stomach illness, according to a Texas federal court filing.