June 20, 2024
Software vendor Workday is battling a suit over its artificial intelligence tools, Tesla is preparing for a sweeping race discrimination trial, lawyers for Southwest Airlines hope to dodge court-mandated religious bias training and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is defending its new pregnant worker rule. Here are four discrimination cases lawyers should keep an eye on in the latter half of 2024.
June 18, 2024
Two Republican states won an injunction blocking abortion-related parts of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's pregnant worker accommodation rule in their states days after another federal court rejected a similar challenge to the regulations — dueling decisions that may trigger parallel appeals, experts say. Here are four takeaways from the pair of recent rulings in challenges to the EEOC regulations.
June 17, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission overstepped its authority by requiring workplace accommodations for "purely elective abortions," a Louisiana federal judge ruled Monday, handing two states and several religious groups a temporary reprieve from agency regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
May 14, 2024
Louisiana and Mississippi have sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seeking to invalidate regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, claiming the agency's stance that employers must provide workers accommodations if they get an abortion flouts U.S. Supreme Court precedent and the PWFA itself.