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November 13, 2024
The Fourth Circuit declined Wednesday to reconsider its decision affirming a North Carolina city's win on a former development director's claims for unpaid overtime, turning down the former employee's argument that the record did not make clear that she was classified as exempt under federal law.
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November 13, 2024
A former tenured professor at Florida A&M University College of Law has asked the Eleventh Circuit to be reinstated, arguing that the university wrongly terminated her in retaliation for suing it under the federal Equal Pay Act.
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November 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory and the policy changes it portends will leave some people exuberant and others furious. Here are three tips employers can use to minimize political friction among workers while staying on the right side of the law.
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November 13, 2024
A Boston hospital refused to promote an assistant because of her age, stood in the way of her disability leave request and then fired her after she complained about harassment by her supervisor, according to a suit filed in Massachusetts federal court.
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November 13, 2024
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP has helped his clients fend off potentially catastrophic exposures, including a suit alleging Geico misclassified thousands of insurance agents, by utilizing defense strategies to gut the claims before courts were able to assess the merits of the case, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
Two longtime Merrill Lynch financial advisers have filed a proposed class action against Bank of America and its subsidiary Merrill Lynch alleging the firms' policies systematically discriminate against African American and female advisers by favoring white male colleagues in teaming and account distribution practices.
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November 12, 2024
The outcome of a fired Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLC legal assistant's appeal of her loss in a disability discrimination suit may hinge on whether there is a genuine dispute about the demands of the job, a Connecticut judge signaled Tuesday. The judge noted a "substantial" disagreement about whether the position was supposed to be a hybrid of remote and in-person.
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November 12, 2024
SkyWest Airlines enabled a workplace that was hostile to women, a jury heard during opening arguments Tuesday, driving a woman who worked at the company to consider suicide in the face of unrelenting sexual assault jokes and supervisors who didn't take her concerns seriously.
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November 12, 2024
The Fifth Circuit rejected a Black worker's bid to revive his suit claiming his pay was cut by a construction and maintenance services company because of his race, ruling his case is devoid of detail that would allow a court to find that bias plagued his employment.
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November 12, 2024
A Washington federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a group of healthcare workers who alleged the University of Washington denied their religious exemptions from a COVID-19 vaccination requirement, saying the university was justified in firing the workers to prevent patients and employees from being exposed to the virus.
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November 12, 2024
A Texas federal court on Tuesday agreed to permanently toss a group of flight attendants' suit against American Airlines Inc. alleging they were misled into taking a less favorable retirement package during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding a suit dismissed earlier over the same conduct bars their claims.
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November 12, 2024
The Third Circuit won't revive a Black woman's suit claiming the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey didn't promote her because of her race and her complaints about discrimination, ruling that the bistate agency had legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for not promoting her.
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November 12, 2024
Professional services company Accenture should escape a former management consulting analyst's lawsuit claiming they were forced to resign because the company mishandled reports about a supervisor's sexually inappropriate messages, a Georgia federal magistrate judge said, finding most of the worker's claims were filed too late.
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November 12, 2024
A Seventh Circuit panel breathed new life into a color discrimination suit by an employee of Wisconsin beef processing plant JBS Green Bay, saying the case should not have been tossed so soon.
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November 12, 2024
The Fulton County Board of Health has been sued in Georgia federal court by a white former employee who alleges she was suspended from her job and then fired for reporting racial discrimination.
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November 12, 2024
The Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that an Israeli bank must face a suit from a former executive assistant who said she faced sexist blowback for complaining that her boss came to work with COVID-19, saying her allegation of a retaliatory job transfer was enough to sustain the case.
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November 12, 2024
The Third Circuit refused to give a Delaware county worker a second shot at his suit claiming one male colleague targeted him with homophobic and racist harassment and another sexually assaulted him, saying the worker didn't do enough to put the company on notice that it needed to intervene.
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November 12, 2024
Worker-side lawyer David deRubertis, who runs his own firm, says he has helped workers win $526 million in damages from their employers in the past two years alone, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to review a Black police officer's suit alleging a New York town unlawfully fired her after she hurt her back, leaving in place the Second Circuit's determination that she lacked evidence of white men being treated better.
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November 08, 2024
A Michigan federal jury on Friday awarded $12.69 million to a former Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan employee who said she was fired after her employer failed to accommodate her religious beliefs, which she said prevented her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
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November 08, 2024
Worker-side lawyers are buckling up for a challenging four years under President-elect Donald Trump, during which they anticipate a rollback of civil rights regulations and a gutting of federal enforcement agencies. But they also say they're more prepared to fight than they were in 2016. Here, Law360 speaks with the lawyers about major challenges they're anticipating and some of their early plans.
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November 08, 2024
A female former in-house intellectual property lawyer at Elanco Animal Health Inc. sued the pharmaceutical company for gender discrimination in Indiana federal court, alleging she was passed over for a promotion in favor of a less qualified man who later mistreated the women on staff.
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November 08, 2024
A municipal water treatment worker has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the New York City Department of Environmental Protection claiming he was wrongly punished for his legal off-duty use of cannabis and wrongly terminated for refusing to take a drug test when he was actually suffering a medical emergency.
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November 08, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a race bias suit filed in Mississippi federal court Friday that the state Senate paid a Black attorney at times less than half of what her white colleagues were paid even though they completed the same work.
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November 08, 2024
A former DLA Piper associate told a New York federal court that her pregnancy bias case against the firm should be heard by a jury, arguing the firm's assertion that she was fired for careless work is contradicted by bonuses she was given and a lack of disciplinary records.