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November 06, 2024
A retired police lieutenant still failed to support his claims that he was denied a promotion because of his military service despite the court giving him a chance to fix deficiencies in his allegations, the city of Los Angeles told a California federal court.
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November 06, 2024
The Second Circuit refused to reopen a former New York State Department of Motor Vehicles employee's lawsuit claiming he was sidelined and ultimately terminated for disclosing his anxiety and other mental health conditions, ruling that states are immune from retaliation claims under federal disability law.
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November 06, 2024
A former wholesale bakery will pay over $900,000 to former employees who alleged they were not paid final paychecks or for unused vacation time when the shop abruptly closed in 2018, the California Labor Commissioner's Office said.
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November 05, 2024
Projected President-elect Donald Trump will likely swap out the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's chief and the general counsel following his return to the White House in January, a move experts said foreshadows a sweeping shift in the agency's priorities.
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November 05, 2024
With former President Donald Trump projected to win the 2024 presidential election and the Republicans' success in securing the U.S. Senate majority, Trump may now get the chance to appoint two more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, cementing the court's conservative tilt for decades to come.
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November 05, 2024
Republicans were projected to take back the White House and Senate and possibly the House early Wednesday, putting the GOP in position to back Donald Trump's agenda and his slate of young, conservative judicial nominees.
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November 05, 2024
Law firms that have represented Donald Trump and the Republican Party on everything from personal legal woes to election-related lawsuits could see the risks of that work pay dividends as Trump is projected to secure a second term in office.
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November 05, 2024
The Third Circuit declined Tuesday to revive a former videographer's suit claiming the University of Pennsylvania fired her for taking time off to treat her bipolar disorder, ruling that she hadn't put forward enough proof that discrimination drove her termination.
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November 05, 2024
An audio series platform reneged on a promise to offer full-time employment to an independent contractor after he raised concerns about discriminatory content the company was producing and then abruptly fired him when he asked about his promised employment contract, a lawsuit filed in California state court said.
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November 05, 2024
Ohio-based roller bearing manufacturer Timken has defended its decision to terminate a plant supervisor who claimed his beliefs about diversity, equity and inclusion led to his dismissal, saying the former boss was fired for poor leadership and that his DEI discussions fell outside Connecticut legal protections.
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November 05, 2024
Harvard University must face allegations that it was indifferent to antisemitic behavior on its campus in the wake of Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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November 05, 2024
Ascension Health Alliance will provide back pay for employees who were denied religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine policy and suspended without pay, under a revamped settlement approved by a Michigan federal judge.
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November 05, 2024
A home heating oil company fielded tough questions at the First Circuit on Tuesday as the company defended its termination of a service technician with a bad knee, with one judge pressing the company's attorney on why the organization hadn't reassigned the worker instead of letting him go.
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November 05, 2024
A Boston television station may have been justified in firing a Hearst videographer who refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic even if the worker's religious objections were sincere, the First Circuit hinted during arguments Tuesday.
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November 05, 2024
Employment firm Littler Mendelson PC announced that a former deputy attorney for the City of Fresno joined the firm's office in the city, adding that his government along with employment law experience will help its employer clients.
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November 05, 2024
The Fifth Circuit shut down a race bias suit from a worker who said his supervisor referred to him by a racial slur, finding that the ex-worker filed his pre-suit U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge too late.
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November 05, 2024
A Black female insurance and construction law attorney is urging a Manhattan federal judge not to toss her suit against her former firm, Fabiani Cohen & Hall LLP, arguing that though she was an equity owner, she was still an employee who could bring claims.
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November 05, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that an attorney who has been with the federal bias watchdog for nearly three decades will oversee the agency's 53 field offices.
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November 05, 2024
Attorneys worked tirelessly Tuesday to support citizens and election workers on the final day of voting in one of history's most contentious presidential contests.
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November 04, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday freed a personal injury firm from a former paralegal's claims that it unlawfully publicized her COVID-19 vaccination status, saying the paralegal herself made her vaccination status public when she opposed the vaccine outside the confines of an employer-initiated medical inquiry.
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November 04, 2024
A Maine federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense's denial of healthcare coverage for two transgender women's gender-confirmation surgeries violates the Fifth Amendment's equal protection clause, finding that the way the department applied a statutory exclusion discriminated based on sex and transgender status.
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November 04, 2024
A former executive at Curaleaf is suing the cannabis dispensary giant for discrimination and sexual harassment, claiming in Massachusetts federal court the company paid her white C-suite peers more money and ultimately sidelined her after she spoke out about male colleagues' lewd and racist remarks.
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November 04, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit refused to reopen a former nurse practitioner's lawsuit claiming the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs demoted her because she's Black, finding she neglected to file a formal discrimination charge within the time limit specified by federal law.
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November 04, 2024
A California federal judge on Monday recused herself from a hostile work environment and retaliation suit brought by a group of former SpaceX employees, saying she owns Tesla stock and is friends with a SpaceX human resource executive's mother-in-law.
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November 04, 2024
Law360 has launched its U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission amicus brief tracker, providing an interactive map to keep lawyers up to date on the EEOC's views on cutting-edge areas of discrimination law, as well as where the agency is focusing its efforts.