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May 29, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday reversed most of a district court's ruling in favor of Walmart on claims by a vision-impaired employee that the retail giant didn't let him return to work after a medical leave of absence, saying the employee presented evidence suggesting Walmart lied about the reasons why he couldn't return.
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May 29, 2024
A New York federal judge sent to arbitration a transgender Starbucks barista's suit claiming he was harassed and ultimately fired because of his gender identity, rejecting the former employee's argument that he doesn't remember signing a deal to arbitrate.
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May 29, 2024
A New York federal judge on Wednesday hobbled a wrongful termination suit against the NFL, dismissing award-winning reporter Jim Trotter's claims of a hostile work environment and state claims but keeping the case alive through a federal claim of retaliation related to the league's decision not to renew his contract in March 2023.
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May 29, 2024
A former Ford employee can't get a new trial on claims that a co-worker's lewd comments and overtures led to a hostile work environment, a Michigan federal judge has ruled, finding there is sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict in the automaker's favor.
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May 29, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently took 15 companies to court over their alleged failure to furnish workforce demographic data, an unusual enforcement push that experts say may foreshadow a renewed effort by the EEOC to require employers to turn over pay information.
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May 29, 2024
A Connecticut hospital and a doctor of Nigerian heritage have settled a race and gender discrimination lawsuit that followed a supervisor's assertion during a sexual harassment and assault probe that Nigeria was home to a "typically misogynistic and chauvinistic" culture, according to a Wednesday dismissal order.
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May 29, 2024
The Fifth Circuit upheld a Louisiana sheriff's defeat of a suit from a Black deputy who said he was fired for complaining that his white colleagues were treated better than he was, shutting down the retaliation claim more than three years after the appeals court revived it.
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May 29, 2024
An Arizona hospital defeated a doctor's discrimination lawsuit for the second time, with the Ninth Circuit upholding an Arizona federal judge's decision to toss the doctor's claims that the hospital showed bias against his military status by not renewing his contract after he deployed.
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May 29, 2024
New York prosecutors planning to retry Harvey Weinstein this fall after his rape conviction was overturned said Wednesday they may file an expanded indictment after hearing from new sexual assault claimants.
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May 29, 2024
A fruit farm agreed to provide $100,000 to resolve a suit brought by California's Civil Rights Department in state court alleging its owner sexually harassed a strawberry harvester daily and groped her on the job.
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May 29, 2024
Three Subway franchises will pay $25,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging their owner left a Black former manager no choice but to quit because of frequent racist statements and mistreatment of employees, according to a filing Wednesday in a North Carolina federal court.
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May 29, 2024
Fisher Phillips has strengthened its Dallas roster with a litigator experienced in representing employers in a broad array of complex labor and employment disputes who came aboard from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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May 28, 2024
Hyundai and Kia are still confronted with claims that they were in on a scheme to obtain cheap labor from skilled Mexican engineers seeking participation in a professional visa program after a Georgia federal judge determined workers had adequately alleged the companies' involvement.
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May 28, 2024
A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel on Tuesday tossed a suit accusing a hospital of wrongfully firing a nurse practitioner who refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the nurse can't invoke the state's medical malpractice statute in a wrongful termination suit.
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May 28, 2024
A magistrate judge on Tuesday recommended the denial of four Georgia waste removal companies' motion to dismiss a suit brought against them by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly subjecting female truck driver applicants to sexist interview questions before filling the roles with less qualified men.
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May 28, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a spate of lawsuits Tuesday against hospitality, transportation, food service and construction companies across the country, alleging they've shirked their legal responsibility to report demographic data about their employees for several years.
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May 28, 2024
A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a fired assistant prosecutor alleging he lost his job at the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office for speaking out about harassment and retaliation, after the county asked for sanctions because the plaintiff wasn't complying with discovery requirements and missed a deposition.
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May 28, 2024
Rebecca Dixon, a leader in workers' rights, said that major policy reforms like revising the Fair Labor Standards Act are needed to overcome the occupational segregation that characterizes today's workforce. Here, Dixon speaks to Law360 about the effects of occupational segregation and what needs to be done to address it.
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May 28, 2024
A Washington state law aimed at preventing companies from holding mandatory anti-union meetings will take effect in June, and although the statute ostensibly targets labor matters, experts say the law should be on discrimination attorneys' radar due to its prohibitions on employers promoting political and religious views in the workplace.
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May 28, 2024
A Washington nursing facility has reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to settle a charge from a worker who said the business sat idle while co-workers repeatedly and intentionally referred to them by the wrong pronouns.
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May 28, 2024
The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to again consider whether employers can use contracts to limit the ability of aggrieved workers to sue, after hearing mini oral arguments last year, though two justices said they would not have advanced the case.
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May 28, 2024
A South Carolina federal jury said a chemical company should pay a former worker $400,000 for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by firing her after she took time off to treat a painful foot condition.
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May 28, 2024
Employment and labor law giant Littler Mendelson PC announced Tuesday that it has grown its New York team with the addition of a pay transparency law expert and former pay equity practice group co-chair at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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May 28, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit reopened a former legal services company employee's lawsuit claiming her boss defaced her car because she complained that a Black colleague wasn't assigning work to white process servers, ruling a trial court used the wrong standard to evaluate her retaliation claims.
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May 28, 2024
The Boston Red Sox settled a suit from a former worker who said she was fired after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine because it conflicted with her Roman Catholic beliefs, according to a filing Tuesday in Florida federal court.