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July 19, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a $5 million deal to end a class action against a nurse staffing agency. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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July 19, 2024
A federal court rejected the District of Columbia's request that it punish a city employee for overdue responses to discovery requests made in her suit alleging she was sidelined because she's over 50, saying the city hadn't taken the proper steps before asking for the court's assistance.
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July 19, 2024
Douglas J. Klein of Jackson Lewis PC has defended employers against class and collective actions, including federal court cases involving a "naked" class waiver at Insomnia Cookies and wage-and-hour claims against New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 19, 2024
A status conference is scheduled this week in the National Labor Relations Board's recently revived suit seeking an injunction barring Starbucks from violating federal labor law at stores across the country.
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July 18, 2024
Attorneys for an ex-NFL player and the former controller for his reptile shipping company accused each other of stonewalling, dishonesty and running up litigation costs at a hearing Thursday, where a Colorado state judge largely ignored the lawyers' "speeches" and urged them to confer more meaningfully.
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July 18, 2024
Worker advocates urged the California Civil Rights Council Thursday to "future-proof" its proposed regulations on the use of artificial intelligence tools in employment, while the state's chamber of commerce opposed what it reads as language "creating essentially a new type of discrimination claim."
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July 18, 2024
Florida officials have urged the Eleventh Circuit to immediately allow enforcement of a law restricting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors and adults despite an appeal, saying that a lower court wrongly determined the law was discriminatory and that patients will be harmed if "life-altering" medical procedures are not outlawed.
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July 18, 2024
The Ninth Circuit revived a doctor's claims that Washington State University failed to accommodate his religious beliefs when it fired him from his residency for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, ruling Thursday that U.S. Supreme Court precedent necessitates another look at his case.
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July 18, 2024
The Port of Seattle's former police chief told a Washington state jury on Thursday that $14 million to $20 million from his former employer would be a "reasonable range" of damages for robbing him of his law enforcement career as punishment for complaining about unfairness in workplace misconduct investigations.
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July 18, 2024
A traveling nurse was illegally fired from her post with a healthcare system, and then subsequently blacklisted from future positions, after she refused to assist on a gender-affirming surgery because it contradicted her Christian beliefs, according to a Texas federal court suit.
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July 18, 2024
Troup County, Georgia, beat a retaliation and discrimination suit lodged by a former jail officer who had accused the county of allowing a chief deputy sheriff to allude to her being owned by someone in a slavery reference, according to a finding in federal court Wednesday.
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July 18, 2024
The Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that a former CSX Transporation Inc. engineer waited too long to try to revive his wrongful termination suit stemming from his firing over an online post he made about a fatal train accident.
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July 18, 2024
Financial analytics company Moody's on Wednesday told a Pennsylvania federal judge that it was clear a former employee who sued it for discrimination wasn't fired for being white and old, pointing to his "fatal" admission that he'd still be employed had he responded to a company vaccination survey.
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July 18, 2024
A group of Republican attorneys general urged the Seventh Circuit to revive a teacher's lawsuit claiming he was fired for refusing to call a transgender student by their preferred name, saying the trial court never explained how using all students' last names put the Indiana school district in legal jeopardy.
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July 18, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said an official who has held leadership roles in the Phoenix district office since 2018 will now serve as the district's director.
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July 18, 2024
The U.S. Department of Defense urged a New York federal court Thursday to throw out a nonprofit's lawsuit challenging its in vitro fertilization coverage policy for service members, countering the group's argument that the agency can't shake the suit because the U.S. Supreme Court upended Chevron deference.
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July 18, 2024
A Texas federal judge refused to grant the state attorney general's request to do away with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement guidance over gender identity, saying the state needs to file a new lawsuit and not piggyback on a case that was closed two years ago.
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July 18, 2024
A Pennsylvania-based construction company will pay $50,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging its president and owner retaliated against a human resources manager who looked into sexual harassment allegations against the general manager, forcing her to quit.
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July 18, 2024
Garden State Gov. Phil Murphy told a New Jersey state judge Thursday claims from the former elections chief that his civil rights were violated when he was pushed to resign allegedly in retaliation for a satirical article should be tossed, arguing there is nothing in the law that prevents him from asking a state official to resign.
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July 18, 2024
The largest horticultural grower in the United States will pay $172,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation discovered reasonable cause to believe it fostered a sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against workers who complained.
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July 18, 2024
A California police department defeated an officer's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully fired after attending a "Stop the Steal" rally in early 2021, with a federal judge finding he was fired based on social media posts that violated department policies, not his political activities.
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July 18, 2024
Democratic members of the House Education and Workforce Committee called on the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday to investigate potential risks of child labor violations in agency-approved youth work programs after recent infractions.
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July 18, 2024
The Fifth Circuit backed the dismissal of workers' claims that Terminix violated anti-disability bias law by firing them for opposing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate because of their preexisting health conditions, stating they didn't show their health issues were disabilities.
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July 18, 2024
A Black former apartment complex manager who accused her ex-employer of putting her in charge of a struggling development because of her race and then firing her for complaining about the situation told a Pennsylvania federal court that her claims had been settled.
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July 17, 2024
A California federal jury considering claims that the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District discriminated against employees who sought religious exemptions from the train agency's COVID-19 mandate rendered a partial verdict Wednesday but hung on a key question, leaving the case unresolved and setting the stage for another trial.