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September 30, 2024
An insurer for the city of Miami sought to maintain its action seeking reimbursement of $5 million for expenses incurred in defending the city and one of its commissioners against underlying lawsuits alleging political retaliation, arguing that it didn't "commingle" claims regarding its potential defense and indemnification obligations.
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September 30, 2024
A Georgia logistics company accused of luring skilled workers from Mexico to the U.S. with empty promises of well-paying technical jobs asked a federal judge Friday to be let out of the proposed class action for want of any ties to the plaintiffs' alleged mistreatment.
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September 30, 2024
A senior counsel with the U.S. Department of Justice focused on civil rights has rejoined employee-side employment boutique Outten & Golden LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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September 30, 2024
Ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black cannot dodge a lawsuit accusing him of raping an autistic teenager in 2002, as New York City's extension of the time limit to file the suit is not preempted by state law, a New York federal judge has ruled.
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September 30, 2024
A New Mexico movie theater refused to provide employees over 65 with health insurance benefits and forced a 72-year-old manager to retire amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court.
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September 30, 2024
An Ohio federal judge has denied Macy's Inc.'s bid to dismiss a health plan discrimination claim brought against it by the U.S. Department of Labor but gave the retailer a chance to try again, ruling that the parties' dispute has surely been affected by the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to ax Chevron deference.
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September 30, 2024
New wage and hour requirements will begin in Alabama and Maryland on Tuesday, while a higher minimum wage for California healthcare workers could also start as early as mid-October. Here, Law360 explores these updates.
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September 27, 2024
A California federal judge proposed an "outside the box" idea Friday after a juror in a trial considering allegations that Cognizant Technologies is biased in favor of Indian workers came down with COVID-19, allowing the juror to view the proceedings from home via video.
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September 27, 2024
A former Denver Broncos player who sued the NFL for discrimination after he was fined more than $532,000 for using medically prescribed synthetic THC is urging a Colorado federal judge return the case to state court.
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September 27, 2024
A group of 17 Republican attorneys general filed suit against the Biden administration seeking to block a rule defining gender dysphoria as a disability under federal law, arguing that Congress explicitly stated that the statutes don't protect gender identity disorders.
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September 27, 2024
A 50-year-old Amer Sports recreational gear salesman alleges the Chinese investors who purchased the company passed him up for leadership roles despite his decades of experience and excellent performance, and then fired him when he complained about age discrimination.
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September 27, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a healthcare security company in Texas federal court Friday, claiming the business walked back a security supervisor job offer for a well-qualified woman with a law enforcement background simply because of her gender.
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September 27, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed two discrimination suits Thursday accusing employers of illegally rejecting job applicants who are deaf or hard of hearing, the latest in a yearslong series of agency enforcement actions on behalf of people with auditory disabilities.
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September 27, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Friday declined to reverse the dismissal of a lawsuit from a University of Mississippi football player who accused the school and its head football coach of kicking him off the team for taking a mental health break.
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September 27, 2024
The City of Berkeley, California, and three members of the city's Commission on Disability reached a deal ending claims that the city violated federal law by refusing to allow members with a disability to attend meetings remotely, according to a news release.
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September 27, 2024
Chicago Tribune journalists told an Illinois federal court that they supported their claims that the paper and its parent Alden Global Capital paid them less because of their sex and race, urging the court to not engage in a motion to dismiss.
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September 27, 2024
A contract packing company agreed to pay $450,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it hired fewer Black workers at its Memphis, Tennessee, facilities and segregated the ones it employed, according to a federal court filing.
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September 27, 2024
A New Mexico federal judge ruled that a former human resources labor analyst's supervisor terminated him for violating the department's absence policies, dismissing the worker's claims that he was fired and retaliated against following his hospitalization for kidney disease.
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September 27, 2024
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC is welcoming back a litigator who most recently was director of litigation with Dish Network as a principal in its Denver office, the firm announced Thursday.
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September 27, 2024
This week, a New York federal judge will consider granting final approval to a $1.3 million class action settlement resolving claims that a fast food operator violated state and federal wage and hour laws by not paying workers overtime and deducting business costs from their wages.
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September 27, 2024
A New Orleans bakery will pay $46,500 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it fired a pastry cook just days after she started because she experienced pregnancy complications, according to a Friday court filing.
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September 27, 2024
While a new bill in Congress that would provide paid leave for workers who've experienced domestic violence or sexual assault may be unlikely to pass this go-round, states and cities have already enacted paid safe leave policies that require employers' attention, experts said.
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September 27, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential initial sign-off on a $900,000 deal to end a proposed wage and hour class action against Allegiant Final Mile Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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September 27, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a hotel franchisee in New York federal court, alleging it pushed out a transgender housekeeper after they complained that a manager repeatedly and intentionally misgendered them and referred to them as a "transformer."
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September 27, 2024
A staffing firm based in Washington state violated a $276,000 agreement to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge alleging it barred employees from speaking Spanish, leaving nearly two-thirds of the sum unpaid, the agency told a federal court.