May 20, 2016
Advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe SA locked up a $2.9 million class action settlement Friday, closing out a high-profile gender discrimination suit in Manhattan federal court that contained allegations of a bigoted, male-dominated corporate culture that shut out and under paid women.
October 14, 2015
Advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe SA and a subsidiary have agreed to pay $2.8 million to end a class and collective action brought by female public relations employees alleging gender bias, according to a filing Wednesday in New York federal court.
June 06, 2014
Female public relations employees who sued advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe SA and a subsidiary alleging gender bias indicated Thursday in a New York federal court filing that they intend to appeal the court's decision denying them class certification.
April 01, 2014
A New York federal judge declined Monday to grant class certification to female public relations professionals in a gender bias suit against advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe SA and its MSLGroup subsidiary, though the women previously claimed they easily satisfied the requirements for certification.
October 30, 2013
A New York federal judge on Wednesday denied an effort by workers to expand their gender bias complaint against Publicis Groupe SA by adding a classwide Family and Medical Leave Act claim, upholding a magistrate judge's finding that plaintiffs did not offer their amendments in a timely fashion.
October 16, 2013
Workers pursuing a gender bias suit against Publicis Groupe SA urged a New York federal court Friday to disregard the expert reports the company submitted in an effort to defeat their bid for class certification, saying the reports focus on the wrong pay decisions.
October 07, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to wade into a dispute over whether a federal magistrate judge's advocacy for using predictive coding to search electronically stored documents meant he should have stepped away from a sex discrimination lawsuit against Publicis Groupe SA.
September 23, 2013
A magistrate judge's finding that workers pursuing a putative gender bias class action against advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe SA shouldn't be allowed to amend their allegations wrongly portrayed the women as "perpetual foot draggers" instead of fervent advocates, they said Friday in a challenge to that August ruling.
August 26, 2013
A New York federal magistrate judge said Friday that workers pursuing a gender bias suit against Publicis Groupe SA shouldn't be allowed to revise their allegations and add a classwide Family and Medical Leave Act claim because they could have acted sooner.
August 14, 2013
Publicis Groupe SA urged a New York federal court Tuesday to deny class certification in a suit alleging its subsidiary MSLGroup paid female public relations employees less than their male counterparts, denying the discrimination claims.