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September 23, 2024
Two New York City public defenders cannot leverage the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling to stop paying their union because the ruling only applies to public employees and they're technically employed by a nonprofit, argued their employer, union and the city in a motion to dismiss their lawsuit.
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September 23, 2024
The AFL-CIO urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to overturn an Eleventh Circuit order finding that the Americans with Disabilities Act doesn't protect certain retirees from disability bias, arguing it erred when finding a Florida firefighter with Parkinson's couldn't contest a policy stripping her healthcare in retirement.
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September 23, 2024
The Sixth Circuit restored on Monday a former police officer's lawsuit alleging he was given menial tasks and targeted for scrutiny because he was in his 50s, saying a reasonable jury could conclude the increased surveillance altered his employment conditions.
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September 23, 2024
An Indiana federal judge has granted the NCAA's motion to dismiss a lawsuit from a basketball player who claims the organization's academic program is discriminatory, but left the door open for an amended complaint.
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September 23, 2024
A wind turbine manufacturer has agreed to pay $125,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging a Black employee was regularly called racial slurs at work and threatened with violence.
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September 23, 2024
Thompson Coburn LLP has added a former Littler Mendelson PC labor and employment shareholder with over 15 years of experience to its St. Louis office as a partner.
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September 23, 2024
Fabiani Cohen & Hall LLP told a New York federal judge on Friday that its equity partner's employment suit is motivated by her desire to increase her profit share of the firm, arguing that her status as an equity owner means she can't be considered an employee for the purposes of her claims.
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September 23, 2024
A federal jury sided with a California city in a race bias lawsuit filed by a Black maintenance worker who alleged that a supervisor and colleagues violated federal and state law by repeatedly referring to him by the name of a Mexican comic book character.
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September 23, 2024
A former sales director for data storage company WekaIO says she suffered sexual harassment and retaliation and was ultimately forced to leave the "male-dominated" company after a sham investigation, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
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September 23, 2024
A Florida federal judge kicked a fired Raymond James and Associates executive's sex bias suit to arbitration Monday, concluding that a federal law prohibiting mandatory arbitration of sex misconduct claims didn't apply because her harassment allegations lacked "plausibility."
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September 23, 2024
The U.S. government has asked a federal judge to toss a suit alleging two agencies pushed out an Asian American attorney following her complaints that a male colleague harassed her, arguing she failed to state a claim in her "behemoth," 190-page complaint.
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September 20, 2024
A subsidiary of Hyundai was hit with a discrimination lawsuit by a former employee in Connecticut who claims her usage of marijuana to manage her post-traumatic stress disorder was the reason for her termination.
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September 20, 2024
A Washington federal judge pressed an ex-Amazon employee on Friday to back up allegations that she was fired for taking military leave, saying the termination appeared to be an administrative "oops" on the company's part that it has since corrected by offering reinstatement and back pay.
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September 20, 2024
The Sixth Circuit revived two lawsuits Friday from Christian organizations challenging a Michigan civil rights law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, saying they demonstrated a plausible fear of enforcement if they publicized their religious views.
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September 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has officially begun flexing its enforcement muscles on one of the nation's newest civil rights laws, and experts say employers need to get up to speed on the unique accommodation analysis required under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Here are three takeaways from the EEOC's first PWFA lawsuit.
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September 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a battery manufacturer and energy storage company Friday in Michigan federal court, claiming it fired an office worker after he fractured his wrist because he wasn't 100% healed, even though he said he could do his job.
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September 20, 2024
A recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission amicus brief arguing that a workplace vaccination mandate may have unlawfully disadvantaged Black workers highlights the agency's focus on seemingly impartial workplace policies that yield skewed results, experts said.
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September 20, 2024
An Arkansas hospital improperly stopped a male surgical technician from assisting with childbirth even though he was hired to do so, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a new lawsuit.
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September 20, 2024
Walmart has agreed to hand over $100,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit filed in Arizona federal court claiming it fired a cashier because she missed too many shifts because of her epilepsy.
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September 20, 2024
A Daytona Beach, Florida, seafood restaurant fired an assistant manager about a month after hiring her because she was 57 years old and it wanted to hire someone younger, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court Friday.
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September 20, 2024
This week the Second Circuit will consider a janitorial company's challenge to a lower court order that allowed an arbitration award in a dispute over what a janitor alleged was the company's misclassification of janitors as independent contractors to become public. Here, Law360 explores this and another employment case on the docket in New York.
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September 20, 2024
A former Microsoft employee tasked with helping advance diversity and inclusion efforts has filed a discrimination suit in Washington state court accusing the tech giant of an "ongoing campaign of intimidation, discrimination, and retaliation" against its Black female employees.
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September 20, 2024
King & Spalding LLP is urging a Maryland federal judge to toss a discrimination suit filed by a straight white woman who says she was dissuaded from applying to a summer associate program open only to "diverse" applicants, arguing the student suffered no injury since she did not apply.
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September 20, 2024
A New York Philharmonic trumpeter accused of raping his colleague and an oboist accused of handing the woman a spiked drink can't prove that the orchestra sidelining them violated an arbitrator's ruling, the orchestra and the musicians' union told a New York federal judge, asking him to toss the musicians' suits.
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September 20, 2024
A New York federal judge has sent a former Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP associate's suit saying she was fired for protesting sexual harassment back to state court and denied the firm's motion to compel arbitration of the matter.