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September 26, 2024
A Howard University professor testifying as an expert for a class of former Congizant Technologies employees alleging the company has a bias in favor of Indian workers told a California federal jury Thursday the fact that 99% of Cognizant's H-1B visa workers are from India is "unusual" and demonstrates a "cultural preference."
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September 26, 2024
The former CEO of LexShares Inc. has lodged racial discrimination claims against the litigation finance firm and its top brass, claiming the company's board of directors discriminated against him and eventually forced him out because he was Black.
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September 26, 2024
Michigan will abandon its bid for early termination of contracts awarded to a Christian adoption and refugee agency while the organization's lawsuit, alleging the state forced it to hire non-Christians to qualify for contracts, plays out in federal court.
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September 26, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently filed lawsuits accusing FedEx and a battery manufacturer of maintaining overly strict policies that require employees to be totally limitation-free to get work clearance, cases that experts say demonstrate the need for companies to be flexible when addressing workers with medical restrictions. Here, experts share three mistakes that can land employers in court.
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September 26, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a water infrastructure company in Tennessee federal court claiming it forced a forewoman to either take on a night shift or quit in retaliation for complaints that male colleagues called her misogynist slurs and ignored her instruction.
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September 26, 2024
A Chicago strip club stood by as customers harassed and inappropriately touched female dancers while also limiting Black dancers' ability to perform, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Thursday in a federal complaint.
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September 26, 2024
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to reverse a lower court order allowing a former research associate's Family and Medical Leave Act complaint to proceed, arguing that it's entitled to sovereign immunity under the military caregiver provision of the law.
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September 26, 2024
Homebuilding company D.R. Horton refused to let a sales associate transfer to a worksite closer to where she lived after her lengthy commute started to exacerbate her diabetic neuropathy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit in Maryland federal court.
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September 26, 2024
An 11th Circuit panel signaled Thursday that the disparate funding of men's and women's collegiate athletic programs was likely not enough to sustain a fired Georgia Tech basketball coach's Title VII claim of sex-based discrimination against the program.
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September 26, 2024
Off-road vehicle manufacturer Polaris forced a pregnant worker to resign when it wouldn't forgive her medical absences or excuse her from mandatory overtime, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in the latest suit of its wave of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act cases.
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September 26, 2024
A YMCA in Minnesota looked the other way when a manager sexually harassed its workers — some of whom were teenagers — which forced one worker to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged.
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September 26, 2024
A Washington federal judge ejected one worker from a suit accusing Amazon of demoting or firing workers who took time off for military service, but teed up for trial another worker's claim alleging he was removed from consideration for a promotion after he said he was going to be deployed.
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September 26, 2024
A Chicago pizza chain fired a Black transgender employee in violation of federal law after she complained that her co-workers and a customer had harassed her about her gender identity, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told an Illinois federal court
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September 25, 2024
A former employee at Cognizant Technology testified Wednesday as a witness for a class of former employees alleging the company discriminates against non-Indian workers, and said he believes the company did not just have a preference for hiring workers from India through the H-1B visa program, but that it was "a mandate."
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September 25, 2024
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday found the city of Charlotte in North Carolina should have deducted retirement funds from a former Black firefighter's race bias settlement, but said the same could not be true for another firefighter who never finalized a deal with the city.
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September 25, 2024
A California state court on Wednesday trimmed down a Walt Disney Co. employee's sexual assault lawsuit against the entertainment giant and one of its former longtime executives, holding that the case was filed after the state's one-year lookback window for sex abuse claims had expired.
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September 25, 2024
The federal program allowing employers to pay subminimum wages to workers with disabilities needs to be eliminated in a way that respects these workers' rights and avoids turmoil for them, experts say, one year after the U.S. Department of Labor began reexamining the program.
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September 25, 2024
Ascension Health Alliance must face another proposed class action challenging its 2021 COVID-19 vaccination policy, an Indiana federal judge ruled Wednesday, holding that a group of workers who were suspended or fired after refusing the vaccine on religious grounds have a case against the Catholic healthcare system.
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September 25, 2024
A former officer for an International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees local in New Mexico accused the union of wrongly disciplining him after he spoke up with concerns about the name of another officer appearing on porn websites through an online search.
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September 25, 2024
A group of Massachusetts police officers say they should be reimbursed for the costs of preparing for 2022 promotional exams that were administered in the midst of a trial where similar tests were ultimately found to be biased against Black and Hispanic officers.
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September 25, 2024
The attorneys for former NFL head coach Brian Flores have warned the Second Circuit, which is hearing the league's appeal of a lower court decision keeping part of his proposed racial discrimination class action in federal court, that the NFL's choice of an arbitrator for the rest of his dispute is "an attempt to falsely create an appearance of impartiality."
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September 25, 2024
Nexstar Media Group can't shake defamation lawsuits filed by two television news station managers who were fired after they disseminated an internal memo telling reporters to be balanced in their Pride Month coverage, a Michigan federal judge has ruled.
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September 25, 2024
An Oklahoma urology practice forced a pregnant medical assistant to take unpaid leave after refusing to let her sit during work or take breaks to relieve swelling and pain, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Wednesday in its second federal lawsuit under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
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September 25, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Wednesday that a Southern sports bar chain refused to hire men for its front-of-house positions, such as server or bartender jobs, a move that violated civil rights laws by denying employment based on gender.
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September 25, 2024
A woman who applied to work for a Duluth, Georgia, car dealership is suing the company for discrimination, claiming it hired a less qualified man after a sales manager had told her it stopped hiring women as salespeople after a woman working in that role sued it for sexual harassment.