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October 08, 2024
A boarding school agreed to settle a suit from an Asian American electrician who said he was fired after raising concerns that he was the victim of racism related to COVID-19, staving off a trial scheduled for November in Pennsylvania federal court.
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October 07, 2024
The city of Durham, North Carolina, agreed Monday to pay $980,000 and adjust its hiring practices to resolve U.S. Department of Justice civil rights allegations that a written test used by the city's Fire Department in evaluating potential hires unintentionally discriminates against Black candidates.
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October 07, 2024
A Pepsi employee has hauled the snack and beverage multinational into New York federal court, alleging in a proposed class action that the company unlawfully imposes a "tobacco surcharge" on employees who use tobacco products while failing to adequately notify employees that they can instead join a company wellness program.
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October 07, 2024
A former Cordell & Cordell PC paralegal claiming she was fired over sexual harassment complaints can't ask a jury for punitive damages, a Kansas federal judge found during an ongoing trial, adopting the firm's position that she hasn't shown any willful violations.
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October 07, 2024
A New Jersey appeals panel won't upend a decision by the New Jersey Transit Corp. police chief terminating an officer for testing positive for THC, rejecting the officer's argument that the chief wrongly deviated from an administrative law judge's determination that the test was unreliable.
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October 07, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it won't review the revival of a gender bias case brought by a woman who said she was fired from her management role in a grocery store chain after her supervisor repeatedly said that management jobs were "too stressful" for women to handle.
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October 07, 2024
The Third Circuit backed on Monday a $1.2 million verdict for a white former jail guard who said he was fired after complaining that a supervisor called his biracial niece "a little monkey," rejecting the county's arguments that the evidence presented didn't merit the award.
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October 07, 2024
A proposed class of disabled attorneys lacks standing to pursue civil rights claims against Michigan alleging courthouses were inaccessible, the state has told a federal judge, arguing it is not responsible for local facilities and is otherwise protected by sovereign immunity under state disability laws.
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October 07, 2024
The acting director of the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs said Monday that a 16-year OFCCP veteran is now its Southeast regional director.
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October 07, 2024
Convenience store chain Sheetz persuaded a Maryland federal judge to send to Pennsylvania a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing the company of conducting a criminal history screening that amounted to race bias, citing the case's ties to that state.
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October 07, 2024
A subsidiary of packaging company Ball Corp. will pay $309,000 after a U.S. Department of Labor probe found evidence that it favored white applicants for production technician jobs over Black workers, the DOL said Monday.
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October 07, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the Fifth Circuit's dramatic cut to a Black former FedEx employee's $366 million jury verdict, despite her argument that the appeals court incorrectly truncated the window for filing her race discrimination and retaliation claims.
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October 07, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether a former employee of the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh had proved he was fired in retaliation for requesting accommodation for an injury.
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October 07, 2024
The nation's top court won't take up a Virginia information technology company's appeal seeking to cast aside a former worker's age discrimination case, according to a list of cert denials issued Monday.
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October 04, 2024
A California federal jury found Friday that Cognizant Technologies engaged in a "pattern or practice" of intentional discrimination against a class of non-South Asian and non-Indian employees who were terminated, setting the stage for a second phase that will determine damages against the IT giant.
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October 04, 2024
The EEOC's blitz of lawsuits at the end of its fiscal year included dozens of cases accusing employers of fostering environments full of harassment, highlighting an age-old priority for the commission that still catches employers flat-footed and prompts the agency to send stern warnings through its litigation docket, experts say. Here, Law360 looks at four things to know about the EEOC's latest anti-harassment enforcement push.
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October 04, 2024
A San Francisco federal judge said Friday that a former X Corp. engineer's lawsuit claiming Elon Musk laid off more women than men after acquiring the company belonged with a similar case the worker filed in San Jose federal court — but chided both sides, saying "nobody's being terribly reasonable."
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October 04, 2024
A cancer research professor has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Temple University Health System's Fox Chase Cancer Center, claiming in Pennsylvania federal court it failed to act on her complaints of being harassed by the eventual director, who she said went on to influence "numerous decisions" that hurt her career.
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October 04, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a final rule Friday tweaking an acquisition regulation after nearly 30 years since a previous overhaul, but the rule doesn't include a proposal that would have required federal contractors to certify compliance with federal and state labor laws.
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October 04, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential final approval of a deal to resolve a class action alleging O'Reilly Auto Enterprises failed to pay for time workers spent in COVID-19 screenings. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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October 04, 2024
A healthcare diagnostics company has agreed to pay nearly $60,000 to the U.S. Department of Labor to end an agency probe over concerns that a New Jersey manufacturing facility undercompensated female employees compared to their male colleagues.
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October 04, 2024
A New York bakery will pay $30,000 to end a proposed collective action alleging it failed to pay workers full and timely wages and fired an employee for taking time off to recover from diagnosed vertigo, according to court papers filed Friday.
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October 04, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider whether to toss a former ConEd attorney's lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her age and gender.
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October 04, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to toss a Black car salesman's suit claiming he was forced to resign from a BMW dealership after it sabotaged his success because of his disability and race, ruling he put forward enough proof showing bias may have been at play.
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October 04, 2024
A real estate company has agreed to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it gave a Black manager twice as much work as a white colleague and ultimately fired him because he was "lazy," according to a filing in Georgia federal court.