March 14, 2024
An Alabama federal judge denied Thursday a Black former mail clerk's request that she be given her old job back after an $800,000 jury verdict finding a staffing agency fired her for complaining about biased hairstyle policies, saying that returning to a temporary gig wouldn't make sense.
April 26, 2023
A Black worker who scored an $800,000 jury verdict in her case claiming a staffing agency fired her for complaining about a Hyundai production plant's restrictions on dreadlocks urged a federal judge to force the agency to find her another job.
March 30, 2023
An Alabama federal jury awarded a Black ex-mail clerk over $800,000 in her suit alleging a staffing company that hired her to work at a Hyundai plant wrongfully fired her after she complained that she was racially targeted for wearing her hair in dreadlocks.
February 10, 2023
A federal judge issued a win Friday to an Alabama Hyundai plant and its maintenance provider in a Black mailroom worker's suit alleging she was fired for wearing her hair in dreadlocks, but kept a race retaliation claim against a security services subcontractor in play.
October 12, 2022
An Alabama Hyundai plant and its maintenance provider told a federal court Wednesday that it should toss claims they violated civil rights law by firing a Black mailroom worker for wearing her hair in dreadlocks, arguing the employee hasn't demonstrated the companies made decisions because of her race.